Do you like solving puzzles? No! I don’t mean jigsaw puzzles. I mean mind-bending puzzles — the kind that challenge your mind. You know those addictive little puzzles you try to solve that make you swear and promise yourself you’ll get better next time – you know what I mean. HUEBRIX is an interesting, brain exercising puzzle you… Read More »
Hackers now crave patches, and Microsoft’s giving them just what they want At least one of next Tuesday’s updates looks like an excellent candidate to hackers as they sniff for bugs in the now-retired Windows XP Computerworld – Hackers will have at least one, perhaps as many as four, patches next week to investigate as they search for unfixed… Read More »
A closer look at just how badly Windows 8.x is failing Once a month I report on the desktop operating system market share using data from NetMarketShare. The changes in fortune between the different flavours of Windows is usually fairly minimal – a per centage point gained here, a per centage point lost there. And usually the rise… Read More »
Laine (and many others) want to know how to set a home page in their browser How can I make Cloudeight my home page? Our answer The fastest way to set a home page in your browser is to visit the page you want to make your home page — in your case www.thundercloud.net/start/ . Once you are on… Read More »
18 Ingenious Internet Tricks You Didn’t Know Existed So many shortcuts. And kittens. Alejandro Escamilla / BuzzFeed 1. Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed Use “Cmnd + Shift + T” on a Mac. Works in Chrome and Firefox. 2. Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed In Chrome at least. 3. See more at BuzzFeed
How to Reset Your Computer to its Factory State Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8xIt used to be common for computer manufacturers to include a Windows installation disk – or at least a recovery disk – with your new computer. Today, it’s rare, although some computer makers will include a Windows installation disk if you want… Read More »