How many times have you forgotten something you needed in your home computer? How much time, productivity and money have you lost because of this? What if you could connect to your home computer from work? (or anywhere for that matter). You probably already thought of the idea but discarded it as being too complicated, […]

Wouldn’t it be great if you could install your printer drivers directly from the CUPS server, just like you would with a Windows print server?, rather than having to install them manually for each workstation? Getting CUPS and SAMBA to push print drivers to Windows PCs could be a real pain, especially when there so […]

I’ve discovered a technique to remove spyware infections that has been working reliably for me in a surprisingly vast majority of cases. A technique that can be followed step by step and can be replicated for almost all types of viruses.

  Tired of dealing with MythTV’s xfce tiny fonts, Bad TV resolution, cumbersome or non existent remote controls, or you simply want to manage your MythTV box remotely (i.e. from work, or on vacation) Then this article is for you. For those of you not familiar with NX, the best way I can describe it […]

Connecting to your Microsoft PPTP VPN server and using remote desktop at work can be critical for those who find themselves working from home from time to time.  Personally, this single issue kept me from getting rid on my dual-boot Ubuntu-Windows setup, until I found a solution. Yes, configuring your Ubuntu VPN could be a […]

  Why is my computer slow? Being a computer professional I cannot remember how many times I’ve been asked this question. It is probably the #1 question in the computer world, and just as other common questions this one does not have only one answer. A wide variety of conditions can cause a computer to […]

Are you wondering what to do with that old computer? Well, I will start by skipping the usual… I will not talk about the obvious uses which you probably already know like: “Sell it on eBay”, “Cannibalize it”, “Give it to the Kids”, “Donate it”, “Recycle it” etc. If you wanted to do any of […]

Lets face it, the iPod has helped Apple a great deal getting the company were it is today. But is the iPod everything that the company would like us to believe? Mmmm… lets see… Yes, the iPod looks nice, and yes it has good sound quality. Is it the best-looking mp3 player out there? Well, […]

If you are reading this article you are probably desperate, but before you panic let me tell you that there is hope, and there is probably more hope than you think…. Even if your hard drive has an internal mechanical malfunction, data can be recovered without having to send the hard drive to a data […]

  Worrying about a bunch of external drives, on your floor that you inadvertently stumble upon and kick? Tired of wasting time looking for data, not knowing in which drive it resides? Tired of having to transport these drives from computer instead of having them accessible to all computers all the time? Have you been […]