In the preceding articles in this series I described how receiving my copy of Windows 7 triggered in me the very geeky impulse to upgrade my machine’s hardware capabilities — to go along with my first (good) 64-bit OS. If you are new to this series of How To’s, please click the provided links and [...] Read Full Story
A crazy morning here at T4E Headquarters, and I am not sure I will be able to get to my CPU comparison article today.. What I usually do on crazy-busy days like today is grab a minute and post a pretty picture, so… how about two today?
Meet CuteGirl22
(note: I would gladly give proper attribution for [...] Read Full Story
Welcome to the second part of my tutorial on how to “upgrade” or replace your computer’s processor. If you have not read Part 1, please click here and read it before proceeding.
(I am going to repeat that I cannot think of a way to write this article without using those durnded Geek Acronyms; so, [...] Read Full Story
When my Windows 7 upgrade disc arrived in the mail last week, it triggered in me an urge to do a more extravagant upgrade to the machine I intended to install Win 7 on. (See, the Law of Unintended Consequences.) An urge that I had previously been able to suppress– even though I am a [...] Read Full Story
Fonts Add Flair To Your Documents
Sometimes, our creative side demands that we use a special, uncommon font– a fancy and festive font perhaps. Fortunately, there are many fonts (and font “families”) available for downloading and adding to your computer’s repertoire.
Last year around this time, I published the article Add color to your documents, and I [...] Read Full Story
Most web browsers offer to “remember” the user name and password combination you use to log into certain websites (such as Hotmail, or your bank, etc.) which allows for faster access when you return to the site. Firefox is no exception.
If you should need to change the remembered login on your machine – say, if [...] Read Full Story
Google’s Gmail is currently testing a service designed to alert Gmail users to messages that appear to be phishing attacks.
These phishing alerts operate automatically, much like spam filtering. Gmail’s spam filters automatically divert messages that are suspected of being unwanted messages into ‘Spam’. Similarly, Gmail’s phishing alerts automatically display warnings with messages we suspect are [...] Read Full Story
In keeping with the times, I decided to Go 64 (bit) with my new Windows 7 install (aka “upgrade”). 64-bit computing is officially here for us Average Folk, and it has many advantages. One of the nicest is the ability to “access” more RAM memory.
(I wrote previously about 64-bit and Windows 7. See, A Tech’s [...] Read Full Story
Yesterday my Windows 7 upgrade disc finally arrived from Amazon. (I’m not complaining. I had opted for the slow shipping method because I’m “frugal”.) 20 minutes later, I was running Windows 7 Home Premium on my HP Pavilion dual-core desktop.
I wrote in my earlier articles on the Win 7 betas that the install process was [...] Read Full Story
