Some programs have a nasty habit of commandeering your files so that they are the default application to open them. This results in the wrong program opening common file types and it can be very frustrating. For example, let’s say you installed a word processing program such as Microsoft Word. When it installs, Word asks […]
There’s a limit to your hard drive’s capacity. Physically speaking, it can accommodate only this or that many pieces of information. But imagine, if you will, that you’ve organized those pieces differently. Can you squeeze more of them into the same space? Turns out you can. Sean Carruthers and Andy Walker discuss the perpendicular storage […]
Intel has bent over backward to win Apple’s business – and, eventually, it did. It’s become the biggest splash at the 2007 Macworld in San Francisco. The best news: Mac computers will now equal PCs so far as speed is concerned. They will be even able to run Windows. So, does that mean we can […]
Dlink Wireless Router (above) Dlink Wireless PCI Card (below left) and Dlink Wireless Notebook Card (below right)
If you try to open a file and you get a CRC error, don’t despair, a few tricks are available to solve the problem. CRC means cyclic redundancy check. It’s a bit of mathematics used to make sure that your data escaped damage during a transfer from one place to another. Errors like this happen […]