You’re wondering why you subscribed to this newsletter now, aren’t you? This is a computer newsletter not a darned produce market newsletter. But not so fast. Not so fast. You can’t use a computer unless you’re alive, right? And you can’t be alive if you don’t eat, right? And if your meals consist of nothing but french fries,… Read More »
Well what can we say? Hmmm. Until today, I hadn’t tried Gimp since 2006 and frankly I wasn’t impressed. The user interface was so fragmented, with parts of the program scattered over most of the screen, I couldn’t figure out what did what, and therefore we never recommended it or even used it. But everything changes over time.… Read More »
UAC (User Account Control) is another Microsoft workaround in their never-ending battle with hackers as Microsoft tries to keep us Windows users safer. But turning off UAC isn’t a good idea. But we all know too well how those UAC prompts can get annoying. There’s a little program (330KB) that can tame UAC for you without turning it… Read More »
Nah, in spite of what you might think, we’re not that tacky….yet. This is not a site that promotes voyeurism by allowing you to furtively peer into offices and see people slacking off while getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. It won’t let you see the president of Ford Motor Company playing Angry Birds on… Read More »
Windows 7 comes with a lot of themes – but some of them are pretty awful. Really they are. Have you ever seen the “Scenes” theme? It looks like Salvador Dali had been blindfolded and then had his toes nibbled by cadre of Moldavian roof rats and forced to paint something. Atrocious. At least to me. Beauty is… Read More »
There are about seven-zillion start-up managers. I think we’ve featured about 60% of them at one time or another. This redundancy is not without purpose. We are sticklers for eliminating excess start-up programs, because start-up programs run in the background soaking up your precious system resources. The number one reason for computer sluggishness is too many programs starting… Read More »