Battery conditioning not needed A common mistake is unplugging a laptop when using it, connecting it back to the AC only when the charge in the battery is running out. The thinking behind this move is to prevent overcharging. However, built-in protection against overcharging means that this move only serves to dramatically shorten the serviceable life [...]

Sysinternals Suite The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. The dowload contains many troubleshooting tools and help files. Link HWiNFO32 HWiNFO32™ is a professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information [...]

Swipe it. Accept payment cards on any device with an audio input jack, including your mobile phone. With clients for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android devices, they sending out their first production batch of free card readers. All represent just the beginning of what Square is striving to become: a simple payment utility [...]

Have you made the switch to Google’s Chrome yet?  It was released into the wild in September 2008.  At that time, heavy net users disliked the lack of extensions available for the new browser.  In the time since, it has developed a very nice ecosystem of extensions which provide great additions to it’s usefulness. It [...]

Freeware for managing Partition of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7. Easeus Partition Master Home Edition is a partition magic alternative and partition management freeware. It supports Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk. Download Easeus Partition Master Home for Windows XP / Vista [...]

The future is here! It is impressive to have a system which recognizes your face and it allows you to login. Thanks to the advancements in technology, we can have our own facial recognition system as well. Blink is freeware for Windows 32-bit systems only. Try it now, and you won’t want to type your [...]

Microsoft is testing a new beta service to help fix common pc problems for the technically challenged. While it will not solve all problems, it will help solve common issues with your computer It’s Easy! Microsoft Fix it Center makes getting support easier than ever because automatic troubleshooters solve the issues you have now and [...]

I have been having issues with my laptop for about a month. It ran slower than it should.  I had run all sorts of malware checks with multiple softwares.  I had even scanned for a rootkit.  This article on Microsoft’s website sped my system up and, so far, seems to have solved my issue. Just [...]

I’ve often wondered why Microsoft® never built in the ability to automatically defrag your system.  They have set the defragmentation utility to automatically defrag your system with Vista.  But, if you are still running XP, as many are, there is a way to automate your computer’s defragmentation.  I’ll stop wasting your time and tell you [...]