Ok, maybe I am a little behind the times – or am very careful before I give Microsoft the fair shake. Whatever my reason was, I never tried Windows Live Writer till the other day. I figured it would be like every other blog updater I’ve seen out there. It would do [...]

I was searching for a way I could view media files recorded on my Vista machine (through Media Center) and found this beauty of a freeware program. The Windows Essentials Codec Pack gives you the an easy way to play just about any audio or video type in Windows Media Player.
The Windows Essentials Codec [...]

Here are a few of the cool downloads I’ve been playing with that have made my Windows Vista week a little more stylish and useful.
Windows Sidebar Styler – I wasn’t going to use the Windows sidebar at first, but I thought I would give it a chance for a while and thus far the [...]

I think the world has seen enough over the top Vista bashing. I did want to share some of my bad experiences for others though. I have to say I am amazed by reading the press that I didn’t have more problems than I did. If you believe what a number of [...]

For those of you watching my recent twittering, you probably noticed that I ordered myself a new PC. The one thing that made me really reluctant about moving from my old 3 or 4 year old previous Windows XP machine was Windows Vista. I have heard so many horror stories on the Web [...]

Working support, I have to look at a multitude of programs and windows on my desktop every single day. Now sure, I would like to pin certain things on top and let other things fall to the bottom of the window stack. The question is – is there an easy way to get [...]

I always love finding new Windows XP visual styles that are not only good – but great. Some of them are ugly, others are Mac-clones. Very rarely do you get one as cool as MurrinaFancyClearlooks.

Need help figuring out how to change your XP visual style? Don’t worry this past post should have [...]

Sure, it might not be a feature you have always dreamed of having – but adding wallpaper to folders on your desktop machine sounds like a pretty neat way to customize your PC using experience to me.

Windowpaper XP is a freeware program that will allow you to get that one Windows 98 customization feature that [...]

I stopped really caring about video players a long time ago.

To continue from where I left off previously, my installation of Ubuntu’s Feisty Fawn (7.04) has been full of nothing but pleasant surprises. It just works! Right out of the box, if you will. So far, the experience has been smooth. Now, like most of you out there, I was hyped to see what all [...]