Do you find yourself rearranging your application windows and then all of a sudden it maximizes to full-screen? Or how about moving the window to the left- or right-edge of the screen only to find it resize to take up half of your screen? This is a new “feature” in Windows 7 called Aero snap. [...]

This article will show you how to install Windows 7 within VMware Workstation 7.0.  This latest release from VMware was unveiled a couple weeks ago that added support for Windows 7, Aero Glass, performance improvements, and much more. Now, lets cut to the chase and get started! To Install Windows 7 inside of VMware Workstation [...]

Everyone by now knows about Amazon’s uber-popular Book reader, Kindle. This featherweight 10 ounce device allows you to wirelessly purchase books online without requiring an internet connection. Until now, books purchased for the Kindle could only be used on the device. However, Amazon.com just released a PC version of the Kindle book reader – and [...]

Now days, many computers come equipped with a HDMI-out connection that allows you to connect it to an HDTV so you can watch videos, play games, etc. I have a Dell M1530 that I regularly connect to my Samsung LN40A750 via HDMI to get stunning video output. My laptop used to run Windows Vista and [...]

Yesterday, Google drastically dropped the prices on their storage upgrade options for Gmail and Picasa Web Albums accounts.  Previously, the lowest-cost option was $20/year for 10 GB. With their new prices, it is now $5/year for 20 GB – that’s 8x more bang for your buck! Below is a listing of their new pricing structure: [...]

Paint.NET had a major release today of version 3.5 of their software. Until today, I had not heard of this application which surprised me quite a bit. I had thought that the best free photo editor for Windows was GIMP (although I am not a huge fan of it). This is not a GIMP vs [...]

The Snipping Tool is a cool “new” utility that is included with Windows 7. You might be wondering why I put the word new in quotes. That is because this program was actually introduced in Windows Vista but went unnoticed by the vast majority. The reason for this is because it was not installed by [...]

Sun recently announced the release of ACSLS 8.0 last month. The major new feature in this release is the addition of a web-based GUI interface to monitor and manage your libraries. This includes the ability to: View system alerts View ACS, LSMs, Volumes, Drives Perform operations such as mount and dismount View historical usage graphs [...]

For years VMware has dominated the market as the leader in virtualization. They offer a number of products from desktop to enterprise applications which can be confusing for users looking for a simple way to run, for instance, an Ubuntu instance within their Windows OS. VMware offers one freeware product called, VMware server that runs [...]

Codenamed Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.10 was officially released today.  Some noteworthy new features include: Faster start-up times Upgrade to Gnome 2.28 Now available in 25 different languages New Intel video driver architecture for improved performance ext4 is now the default filesystem and many many more! How to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10? Navigate to System -> [...]