It’s time for some Apps of the month once more. This month, we have some excellent Windows utilities (sorry Mac and Linux users). The first is SpeedSwitch XP, a little applet designed for laptop users that can speed up or slow down your processor at will to offer performance or power saving. The second [...]
There’s been a lot of talk on the forums about the so-called ‘Browser Wars’. I admit I am one of those who tries to persuade people to use Opera over Firefox over IE, although not many people on the forums know much about the real browser wars over the last decade or so. Mosaic NCSA Mosaic was [...]
Welcome to the first of my series of articles about some of my favourite freeware programs. Every month, I will write an article about two pieces of freeware, describe their function, rate them, etc. Please note that for now, I will only be writing about Windows (and possibly some Linux) freeware, although no Mac freeware [...]
Have you retired from Runescape? Are you absolutely sick and tired of the nooby updates (or no updates if you’re free-to-play)? Do you just want to move on, get over Runescape, and play something else? Well, this section of the newspaper will hopefully provide you with some starting information to a new, good game to [...]
Another month, another load of Tech questions. Unfortunately not as many this month, although some interesting questions have been posed nevertheless. Again, not all questions have been answered, and I apologize for that. - I’ve been looking around for a good, free recording device with which I can record with. I’ve tried HyperCam 2, but it slows [...]
In 2 days of writing this article (April 6th), it’ll be Windows 1.01’s 20th birthday. It’s been 6 years since Windows XP was released. Now, the latest edition to the Windows family is Windows Vista. I installed Windows Vista 2 weeks ago on my *low-end* (according to Vista) PC, 1GB RAM, 80gb hard drive, 128mb [...]
This month was somewhat of a challenging one for the questions! Quite a lot of research was required to get some of the answers, although everything has generally gone well. Again, some of the questions are rephrased for clarity. How do you defragment Ubuntu Linux? Windows turns to [...]
In life, some people are better at some things than others: sport, school, all kinds of things. This is the case with computers. Some people are simply better at using computers than others, and being one of them, I find it an incredibly useful skill (if for [...]
Torrenting Torrenting is a faster way of downloading large files. For example if you wanted to download a HD-Podcast, it would be too big to download directly from the server. Consider the bandwidth bill that poor podcasters would have if they hosted a 500mb file for thousands of people to download. It would be very inconvenient [...]
This month I have decided to start answering your questions. Every month, a topic will appear on the forums and you will have the opportunity to ask me questions regarding tech and stuff. Some questions will be rephrased slightly, but the point will still stand. Anyways, here we go. How can I play DVDs and protected music in Ubuntu Linux? - from Andy. Almost all DVDs nowadays have a protection scheme on them called CSS, which [...]