A few cool tips for Windows 7

1. Add an additional pane to Windows Explorer In Windows Explorer, activate an additional file preview pane to the right side of the window with this new shortcut. This panel is great for previewing images in your photos directory or for moving files from one directory to another. Windows + + (plus key) Windows + – (minus key)… Read More »

Use RESMON to monitor your Windows 7 computer

Windows 7 includes a really great utility that can give you very useful detailed information about your computer’s memory, disk usage, CPU usage, and network usage — all at a glance. Using RESMON (Resource Monitor), you can quickly spot resource hogs that are stealing your computer’s thunder and maybe bogging it down.  Even if your computer is running… Read More »

Listen: Do you want to know a secret?

  In this age of mass espionage, when as private citizens our emails, computers, credit cards, and other personal details are being snapped up by nosy government bureaucrats, faster than a whale sifting plankton; governments who use the word “terrorism” to terrorize us all into allowing unrelenting and unjustified snooping, collating and archiving our every email, message, photo,… Read More »

Do you like fonts? Well…do ya?

We’ve been around long enough to know that a majority you love graphics and fonts. The trouble with great fonts is they’re getting harder and harder to find; they are either ugly-looking fonts, or they’re bundled with malware. Who wants to scroll through 1000 crappy fonts to find a few good ones? Not me. We’ve found a site… Read More »

Still looking for a good replacement for Microsoft Office?

Are you one of those who are still looking for the perfect replacement for Microsoft Office? Don’t like Open Office? Don’t like Google Docs? Do other online office apps leave you cold? If this sounds like you, we have another online office for you to review. It’s probably the most Microsoft-like office replacement we’ve seen. If you look… Read More »

On Winter

Winter is death incarnate. Its bleak sullen skies and early sunsets, stir up a morose soup that seeps deep into your soul sadly and lingers. You can’t digest it. You can’t shake it. You can’t get rid of it. The darkness is everywhere. Even the melancholy morning sun mourns and yearns for spring. But in our eternal disregard… Read More »