Full confession here: I own two iPods. Matter of fact, pretty much everyone I know - including my Dad - has at least one. Still, I am going to brave the hate mail from the Apple zealots and suggest the unthinkable. Maybe, just maybe, you should look beyond Apple when buying your next digital music […]

The $25 iPod alternative Before you rush out to buy a new player, you might want to crack the manual for your cellular phone first. Many newer phones - especially the smarts ones, like Blackberry, Treo and some Nokia devices – have music storage and playback capability. They can also play video files and display […]

“Have you defragged your hard drive lately?” is the question we hear from time to time. For those not comfortable with the current computer lingo, defragging equals defragmentation. First of all, what is it? Imagine your hard drive is an empty closet. At first, it’s really east to put boxes of all sizes in it, […]

Your computer is an extension of yourself, and the background you choose reflects your personality. Popular psychologists and sundry TV know-it-alls say so, so, it must be the gospel. So, why don’t you really spruce up a boring desktop? Just right-click anywhere on the open desktop to call up the display options window. In Windows […]

Some people think that having two monitors plugged into one computer and facing you looks silly. Preposterous, pretentious, even. If so, then why do some computers come with two places to plug in monitors? And why do laptops usually have a monitor port in the back? And why do some video cards have dual monitor […]