Continuing on with their rapid-fire release schedule, version 10 of the Mozilla Firefox browser is now available for download. Although there’s a bunch of stuff that’s cool about Fx 10, there are 3 in particular that I feel stand out above the rest. First is actually the release notes page itself. I’ve been waiting for Mozilla to do this a long...

Having a good backup strategy can allow you to have a good Plan B in case you lose your data. For many businesses it is a legal requirement as well. The biggest risk group for data loss is businesses who have small LAN setups and standalone computers. That isn’t surprising as many small businesses are uneducated about the importance of backup and do not...

Although I’m primarily going to concentrate on the Windows environment, the guidelines below apply to any operating system. After all, clutter is clutter no matter which OS the clutter is in. Most modern web browsers will dump all your downloads, as in the files you click to download (meaning not the cache) to a specific folder titled Downloads. Windows...

While this might be old news to some, I’m sure there are still a few people who wouldn’t mind hearing about this tool. Let’s say you’re on YouTube, and you see a video you really like. It’s downright awesome, and you think “Hey, I’d love to put that on my iPod.” Believe it or not, you actually can do that. Some...

Victor Writes: Is there a way I could access a webcam that is hooked up to a desktop computer in my home network with a different desktop computer in the same home network? I would like to monitor what is going on downstairs from the computer that is upstairs! I would think this should be similar to accessing a printer that is hooked up to a different computer...

It is highly unlikely that anyone that is 30 years of age or younger now as I write this in 2012 has ever seen much less actually used Microsoft Word 6.0. Word 6 was the last version that worked in the Microsoft Windows 3.1 environment; it was released in 1993, and this is the version that really put Word "on the map", so to speak. Said another way,...

Sometimes it’s the simple things that make our digital lives a whole lot easier, and the Mailto: extension for Google Chrome is definitely one of them. Situation: You go to a web site where there’s a clickable email address. You click it, and what happens is that a mail program (Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.)...

A quick scan at the hits-per-day rating over a DistroWatch reveals Mint keeps climbing while Ubuntu keeps falling:Said honestly, I can’t say I’m surprised. In the Linux community there’s been quite a lot of backlash over the default Unity interface that was released in June 2010. And when I say “backlash”, I’m not putting...

So, you’ve got yourself a brand new, shiny computer. Trouble is, your whole desktop looks a little…impersonal. You’re sitting there thinking to yourself, “high time I changed this.” Trouble is, you’re not sure how to go about doing so. Have no fear- it’s actually an incredibly simple process. Step 1- Access the...

Warren writes: Just curious to know if anyone has tried waterfox web browser. It’s for 64 bit systems and is from mozilla. Installed it a couple days ago and while I have no tools to benchmark it, seems faster than the others with no compatibility issues with any site. Not easy to find on mozilla’s site but maybe someone could give it a spin and see...