A couple of months ago, I was in a rush to shut down my laptop. When I finally got to my destination, I found that my computer had not in fact shut down as I had told it to do. Apparently a program had crashed and it was waiting on me to click the 'End [...]...

Have you ever been reading an email or surfing the net and come across a word you wanted to lookup, but didn't because it takes too much time?  Even with Dictionary widgets and websites like Dictionary.com it still takes too long to have to copy and paste the word or wait on the internet. So, I [...]...

Do you remember the beryl icon and it's menu? Here it is: It wasn't long ago that Linux users used a thing called beryl and compiz fusion hadn't been heard of. Maybe you remember these days, maybe you don't. For those of you who did use beryl, I bet you miss that red jewel icon in your [...]...

If you are a Windows user, you have probably had to defragment your hard drive at one time or another.  However, even if you have never heard about defragging, this article is still for you. It should come as no surprise that the built in defrag program "Windows Disk Defragmenter" isn't the best program out there.  [...]...

Are you a college student like me who has a different schedule every day? While I'm usually pretty good about setting my alarm clock for the right time, it doesn't hurt to have a backup plan.  I have come across a nice piece of software every student Mac owner should have. Aurora is an alarm clock that [...]...