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What kind of effect does it have on a person to be constantly fed politically correct statements? For instance, you know that Apple’s Mac OS is supposed to be far ahead of any OS made by Microsoft.

When you open any tech magazine and you see the words Windows and Mac together in an article, everything in your life up to that point that you’ve been exposed to forces you to believe that it’s an article about how there is a new way in which Mac wiped the floor yet again with that poor joke of an OS by Microsoft.

Well, that’s not how this is going to go. With version 7, Microsoft really has made a truly mature and well-designed operating system that even the Mac OS X, that has always been the last word in operating systems, could learn a trick or two from.

Let’s look at a few features that 7 has that the Macintosh should kill for, but doesn’t have to  (because there are ready-made apps that port those kinds of features right over).

Windows does cut-and-paste just about anywhere. In Windows Explorer, you can cut, copy and paste files to your heart’s content. Somehow, OS X doesn’t allow any cutting. Read the rest of this entry →

It’s not that there’s nothing about Windows that you could miss on a Mac – there’s plenty of that stuff. Windows has cut-and-paste while the Mac only has copy and paste; Windows allows you one-touch window maximizing, it has a Windows Previews and so on.

But after you’ve spent a good long time on a Mac, there are certain kinds of software that you come to take for granted that just aren’t available on Windows.

Which is a surprise, considering how software makers have a much larger market with PCs for anything they create. Still, Windows does lack a few important pieces of software. And if you don’t know what you’re missing, try these articles of Macintosh software out.

When GarageBand came out a few years ago, it was rightly hailed as a breakthrough piece of software that put a recording studio in every average person’s computer.

Sure, Windows has all kinds of pay software if you want to record live music; but GarageBand is free; and it comes installed ready with each Mac OS package. With Windows, you do have the open-source Audacity that’s available for free. Read the rest of this entry →

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When you are away from your trusted home or office network and working on some kind of public Wi-Fi network at the airport or the coffee shop, how do you do something that you need security for – like keying in the password to your bank account?

That’s where VPN software comes in. They can be a very convenient way to let you get securely on your home or office network while you are actually on an insecure public network.

Once there, you can do anything  you would if you were right at home or in the office. Let’s look at a few of the best VPN software examples there are available to you today – some free, some fully paid.

To set up a proper VPN system, you’ll need server software that goes on your home or office computer network, and you’ll need VPN client software that goes on your laptop or whatever you wish to use outside. Let’s start with a free and cheerful piece of server software called OpenVPN.

With open VPN installed on your Windows, Mac or Linux computer, you can import and export anything on the computer to all kinds of open source or paid VPN clients. Commercial VPN providers don’t really accept OpenVPN; but if you just wish to roll your own, this could the perfect.

If the whole VPN software thing scares you and you’re really looking for something that will ease you in the first time with a user-friendly experience, LogMeIn Hamachi for Windows, Mac and Linux is exactly what you’re looking for, for no money at all.

With this little package, you don’t need to sign a contract as you would with a corporate VPN and you don’t need to configure routers and get your feet wet with all kinds of technical mumbo-jumbo.

Instead, if all you need to do is to just set up a simple virtual network from where you are to where your home or your home office is, this is exactly what you need for instant action and satisfaction.

You just install their client VPN software on all the computers you want connected, and you don’t even need to worry about VPN server software.

The servers exist with Hamachi, at their corporate servers. Wherever you are with your laptop (at the coffeehouse for instance), wishing to connect super-securely to your home or office computers, you just need to turn on the client on your laptop and right away you go through the Hamachi server to your home computers and everything’s secure; no kind of spy with the latest technological spy software has anything on you.

And don’t forget to try out the free VPN software in Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. It may be basic, but usually, it’s all you need.

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After you create a shortcut to the Programs folder or its subfolders, you will be able to update the property in order to add comments that will be displayed when you select the option in the Start menu. The steps you need to implement is very simple and you will see a very short time.

First you must click the right mouse button on the Start menu and then select Explore-up menu. Once this is done with the resources you’ll receive Explore% UserProfile% Start Menu folder selected. In the left pane of Explorer, select the folder you want to add the menu option.

In the Contents pane or View, click the right mouse button on an open area, select New and then Link from the context menu, so you start the Create Shortcut Wizard. Presented in the field, type the path to the program or file you want to associate the link, and if you do not know the path, click Browse and then use the Browse for Folder window to find the item you want to use.

Continue clicking Next and type a name for the connection so that the information entered will be displayed on the Start menu. Now to finish just click Finish. If you wish to add a comment to the link, click the right mouse button on the shortcut and select Properties. Enter your comments in the Comment field and click OK to confirm.

There are many different operating systems that you can run on your personal computer (PC), but some people may not realize that.

Unfortunately, Windows has become so common that people have been blinded to the wide range of choices that they have-and often carrying a far cheaper price tag.

Though Microsoft Windows has the largest market share, there are also Apple computers, and the Linux and Unix operating systems.

Apple operating systems require an entirely different architecture on which to run, and so won’t run on a normal PC, so are not an option for users of normal PCs. A Linux operating system is a good alternative to Windows, and can be tried quickly and easily and with no commitment

The owner of a normal PC has several usable choices when in comes to running their computer. There are Unix based operating systems, Linux systems and there is the Google Chrome system. Unix tends to require a little more technical know-how, and Chrome is very basic, leaving Linux the big competitor. Read the rest of this entry →

During the course of your experience as a Windows computer user, you must have undoubtedly come across a lot of errors and system failures.

You may have spent a lot of time and energy in chasing after the computer experts, only to see the errors recur. Well, we are here to tell you that errors related to Windows files can be handled fairly easily by the average computer user.

In this article, we provide a brief description of various types of files found on a Windows system, and we explain how to rectify errors associated with them.

A few examples of different types of file extensions

You might already be aware of the .txt and .doc files, but there are several other file formats that are important from a practical point of view. Read the rest of this entry →

In 1998, Microsoft Corporation released their latest update of the popular Windows operating system – Windows 98.

It was a successor to the previous version of Windows 95 and was an improvement on technology contained in its predecessor.

One of the great advantages to Windows 98 was that it required relatively low system requirements making it easier to gain its full potential even on older machines.

This version of Windows gave full support to DOS applications because it could be switched between DOS mode and Windows mode.  Being able to do this allowed the user to fix certain system errors manually.

Windows 98 was never as stable as regular computer users needed.  This was due to many reasons.  Often the software developers of drivers and applications had insufficient experience with the creation of programs for the new system. Read the rest of this entry →

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Do you still remember windows98? It was my favorite operating system from windows. Here is the brief history of windows 98.

Windows 98 – codenamed Memphis – was released by Microsoft Corporation on June 25, 1998.  Windows 98 was the successor to Windows 95 and presented a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit monolithic product which was based on MS-DOS.

It was quickly followed by an updated to the operating system with Windows 98 SE (second edition) as Microsoft attempted to fix many bugs that were present in the original version.

Among the newer features of Windows 98 were better AGP (accelerated graphics port) support, functional USB (universal serial bus) drivers, and support for multiple monitors and Web TV. Read the rest of this entry →

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Back in the late 1970’s, two enterprising young computer programmers named Paul Allen and Bill Gates developed an adaptation for the BASIC computer language that would help run newly created personal computer just coming on the technology market.

As with any technology, their original creation changed and grew.

The two friends decided they had the product and the capability to become successful, so they formed a company now known as Microsoft.

Over the years, Microsoft has grown to a giant in the computer industry with successes never before seen by a “from scratch” endeavor.

Microsoft was responsible for the development of not only several computer languages like COBOL and PASCAL, but also for the development of the earliest operating system MS-DOS.

In partnership with IBM, who was just introducing the personal computer to the individual consumer, all of the IBM computers used MS-DOS on their systems.  The year was 1981.

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As a user, you normally interact with the operating system through a set of commands. For example, the DOS operating system contains commands such as COPY and RENAME for copying files and changing the names of files, respectively.

The commands are accepted and executed by a part of the operating system called the command processor or command line interpreter.

Graphical user interfaces allow you to enter commands by pointing and clicking at objects that appear on the screen.

But that really doesn’t address the various ways that operating systems make your computer work easier and more efficiently.

Their specific capacities are what make them help your computer operate as a user-friendly device.  Let’s look specifically at what an operating system does. Read the rest of this entry →

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