The food pyramid was designed to offer an easy-to-understand look at healthy eating, but for the average person it’s too simplistic, vague, and sometimes way off. Here’s how food pyramids work and how you can actually use them in your day-to-day eating. Versions of the Food Guide Pyramid have been around since the late 70s, [...]
Photo by jonasj You shell out some serious money for DVD’s, but the format they are in is not enough in this age of multimedia to satisfy all your needs. We created a list of 5 ripping tools that will not only make a back up copy, but also keep them safely on the internet [...]
Download Squad’s Sebastian Anthony puts developer versions of IE9, FireFox, Chrome, and Opera against each other in a HTML5 benchmark death-match at the same time on the same machine. (you gotta love today’s technology eh) The results: as of this test the hardware acceleration available in IE9 and FireFox 3.7 take the lead by a [...]
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to save, share, organize, search, and manage their bookmarks of websites. The resources themselves aren’t shared, only the bookmarks that reference them. Most of the time these bookmarks are made public, or they can be saved privately, sharing the bookmarks only with specified people, groups, or certain [...]
Knowing our 30 Recommended Software Downloads for Free article was now a year old, we decided to give it an upgrade. After we got started I didn’t fully realize just how many applications we had tested throughout the year, and how many had made the cut until I started putting this list together. When we [...]
Songbird is free and is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms: If your not familiar with Songbird let me bring you up to speed, it’s an open source, Mozilla-powered, rumored to be an iTunes-killing media player. The popular music jukebox application just released a new update, version 1.4.2. The latest version brought us several [...]
Recently our website was attacked by a hacker which left us in pretty bad shape. All though we back it up daily, at the time I was sick and had not done so for about four days. Well the hacker apparently smelled the weak link and went for it. Being the website had not been [...]
Lots of hard work went into the creation of Windows 7 themes, Microsoft put forth more effort into Windows 7 than any of the previous versions. Naturally this also created a ton of buzz, and Microsoft’s largest pre-order sales ever. Aesthetically, Windows 7 looks way better than any of it predecessors, the transparent start menu [...]
All those so called anti virus programs listed below are fake antivirus software programs, imposters, scams designed to empty your bank account, most are Viruses or Trojans. The makers of the fake software fool users into believing they have an infected computer by displaying warnings saying “a serious virus threat has been detected”.
It’s been real joy watching movies on the big screen in my living room, but it’s also a pain because it can take ages to transfer my movies wireless from the desktop to the media center PC. This gets old after a while, and gets older when you know that a hardwire configuration would make [...]
Digital camera’s are simply amazing, I remember taking pictures on film cameras not to many years ago. Now with digital camera’s and the right memory card you can take hundreds if not thousands of pictures.
The smartphone market has seen some big changes in the past three years. New players have come on board and thanks to the latest advancements in technology the phones are coming out more powerful then ever. For sometime now AT&T has had the iPhone for quite some time now, T-Mobile the G1 and now the [...]
Today is a very special event for Linux fans: Canonical and Ubuntu developers, have released the final version of Ubuntu 9.10, named “Karmic Koala”. With the latest release of Ubuntu.
Next week will usher in a new chapter of Microsoft’s history. The Redmond based software giant will officially be releasing Windows 7 to the masses in a variety of flavors including a “Starter Edition” for netbooks all the way up to the Pro version which comes with such bells and whistles as 256-bit encryption (BitLocker) [...]
Windows only: AVG today released the new version of it’s antivirus software called AVG 9 Free, it can be downloaded from AVG website or download portals such as gHacks. The free version is a 70 Megabyte downloaded and is compatible with the three latest generations of the Windows operating system (Windows XP, Windows Vista and [...]
Its funny because the other day I was checking out which would be the best games for my holiday lineup. I’ve always been a fan of racing games (namely NFS even though I have been disappointed with them recently), so it was only natural that I came across Forza Motorsport III and Gran Turismo 5. [...]
If your going to install Windows 7 then your going to ask yourself: How do I get all my crap like photos, tax returns, and all your MP3s onto my new computer? The answer is buy a $40 cable and forget about it. Belkin will release the Easy Transfer Cable for Windows 7 on October [...]
