Posts Tagged 'computers'

Apple to Announce The New Tablet….Sometime Soon

2 Commented January 4 2010
Categorized Under: Featured, Gear, Geek, Hardware, Web

Will this be the new look of Apple’s new Tablet?
Or this?

Speculation has been wild and extravagant, but most sources agree on the obvious conclusion that it will be a Mac/iPhone hybrid. Apple is set to make an announcement this month (January), or February, or March. Apple, of course, won’t make an announcement about when their [...]

Hot Key Haven for Windows 7

4 Commented October 27 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, OS, Software, Technical, Utilities

A fairly complete list of hot keys for Win 7:
Basic Shortcuts

F1
Display Help

Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+Insert)
Copy the selected item

Ctrl+X
Cut the selected item

Ctrl+V (or Shift+Insert)
Paste the selected item

Ctrl+Z
Undo an action

Ctrl+Y
Redo an action

Delete (or Ctrl+D)
Delete the selected item and move it to the Recycle Bin

Shift+Delete
Delete the selected item without moving it to the Recycle Bin first

F2
Rename the selected item

Ctrl+Right [...]

Shaking Hands with Skynet

one Commented October 21 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, Science, Technical, Web

Web 3.0, or the Semantic Web, is close at hand. A web that learns is a web that will eventually become self aware. In fact, it is believed by some that the web already has some level of consciousness. That is not to say that the web will take on a human like self awareness [...]

Happy Patch Tuesday

one Commented October 13 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, Hacks, OS, Software, Technical

Today is Patch Tuesday. This is the day when Microsoft updates and patches all the errors and vulnerabilities that have been found in the recent past. This week the geeks at Microsoft address 34 security problems within 13 updates. Eight of these will be labeled critical.
Of those, two very serious issues are being addressed.  The [...]

TweetDeck for the iPhone and more!

one Commented June 16 2009
Categorized Under: Gear, Geek, Twitter, Utilities, Web

UPDATE: Tweetdeck did not jump the shark with their new iPhone app and updates to the desktop version. They jumped in the pool, wrestled the shark by hand and ripped it’s eyes out, sucking the little sharkbrain out of the sockets for good measure. I have been on the iPhone app for several hours now [...]

Win7 Starter Edition

one Commented May 31 2009
Categorized Under: Geek, Technical

When Microsoft came out with the list of the different editions of Windows 7 It was rumored that the lowest version that was intended for netbooks only would be crippled down to only running 3 processes at a time. Turns out that is not going to be the case. Although there are some things that [...]

Free Computers for Needy Folks

6 Commented May 29 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek

UPDATE: We need a not-for-profit organization to help us send these PC’s to a good home. We don’t want to donate them the a company that will just turn around and sell them. We want them to be given to people that could really use a free computer. The computers are older and will work [...]

How to Bullet-Proof your computer

No Commented March 29 2009
Categorized Under: Geek, Technical

There are a million posts and blogs out there that tell you how to make your computer safe on the interwebs. I’m going to tell you how to bulletproof the damn thing. I’m also going to tell you how to do it on the cheap. You don’t have to be an uber-geek or millionaire to [...]