InterfaceLIFT currently offers 1,531 desktop backgrounds in widescreen and standard format for use with all operating systems all for free. Give them a try if your looking for new backgrounds and really who isn’t. InterfaceLIFT
May 292008
This can be very frustrating when using multiple monitors or sometimes just by dragging windows around your screen, you get one to the edge of your display and then can’t seem to grab it in the right place to move it back where you want it. Then after 15 minutes of cussing you give up and reboot.Well here’s a way to prevent you from rebooting to get that sucker back inline.
Watch your favorite music videos in High Definition with Pluggedin. Share your favorites with your friends or meet new people and explore new bands. The site does require you to sign up and install a player to see the videos and I’m not to thrilled with the dark theme on the site but if you like to watch music videos give it a try. Pluggedin
Update 6/2/08 Seth from Pluggedin Left a tip on how to change the sites theme from black to White. That made it much better for my old eyes and much more useful.
May 262008
MEMORIAL DAY,
FOR OUR TROOPS (both past and present, but particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan at present)
Though I don’t know your name
And I have never seen your face
I shed tears for you.
Though my memories don’t contain a time
We shared together
I miss you.
With summer here the great outdoors calls and it pays to be prepared for emergencies or disasters. The 6-in-1 PSD is a hand held crank-powered Personal Safety Device designed to be used at home at work at school or when out camping, hiking or backpacking in the woods or just braving the city streets. Get it at Amazon for about $18.00
PC vendors often customize the System Properties screen to show off their logo and to add support info you can readily see,but if you built your own computer or build them for other people you can customize your System Properties screen to show your logo and support information or anything else you want. Here’s how.
May 182008
When you go to shut down your computer you are given the options to Standby, Restart and Turn off. Putting you computer into Standby mode reduces your power consumption. The amount of electricity used by the computer in standby mode is just a trickle, just enough to keep the memory alive so that open programs and documents are stored without data loss. The primary power saving is achieved by turning off the system drives, monitor, and other items.
The Downside is that information that is currently in computer memory is not saved to your hard disk. If you have an interruption in power, information in memory will be lost. Because of this, you may want to Put your computer into Hibernation instead, but your not given that option when you click Start > turn off computer. Here’s a way to add it to your Shutdown Dialog box.
Here are some common types of computer viruses. I think we’ve all experienced one or two of these in the past. Thanks to Paul for sending it in.
1. Adam and Eve virus: Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple.
2. Airline virus: You’re in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore.
3. Arnold Schwarzenegger virus: Terminates and stays resident. It’ll be back.
4. Bill Clinton virus: Promises to give equal time to all processes: 50% to poor, slow processes; 50% to middle-class processes, and 50% to rich ones. This virus protests your computer’s involvement in other computer’s affairs, even though it has been having one of its own for 12 years.
Here’s a quick way to find out some useful info on your XP computer. Did you ever wonder how long its been since your last reboot, probably not too long but this little tip will tell you. It will also tell you the date when your operating system was installed, Your bios version and more. Here’s how.
You can synchronize your computer clock with an Internet time server. This means that the clock on your computer is updated to match the clock on the time server, which can help ensure that the clock on your computer is accurate. Your clock is typically updated once a week and needs to be connected to the Internet for the synchronization to occur. but sometimes problems occur and your computer won’t sync, but you can update it manually 1 of 2 ways.
