A few months back, Valve announced some initial details of Steam’s debut in the version of Portal 2. The long-awaited Portal 2, which pits players in a physics-based game against the “GLaDOS” artificial intelligence was released on April 19th for PC. There have been many reviews out there for portal 2 and I have decided to link some here. Personally I love the Portal series and it is definately worth the buy. Portal 2 Review [...]

Wouldn’t be easier if you could control your PC from your bed. You do not need Infrared Receivers/USB Gadgets and remotes for this purpose. Instead all you need is your iPhone or iPod Touch and a wifi connection to your PC. What You Need: PC (The Software is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. This tutorial covers Windows) PC HippoVNC server software. (Linux users can use the included VNC server software) HippoRemote Lite app. (Available [...]

You’ve loaded the Ubuntu Live CD to recover files from a failed system but where do you store the recovered files? We’ll show you how to store them on external hard drives, on the same PC, a Windows home network, and other places. There are many ways to transfer files you can access from a Ubuntu Live CD to a location that a stable machine Windows can not access them. We’ll go through several methods, from [...]

Windows 7′s built-in virtualization tools let you do all kinds of useful things — from multi-booting using virtual hard disks (VHDs), to mounting those same VHDs as local disks, to running older software that doesn’t play well with OSes newer than XP. It would, however, be nice if certain tasks were a bit simpler. Fortunately there are some great, free tools which can help. Disk2vhd (pictured above) Need an easy way to convert a physical [...]

Getting a virus is bad. Getting a virus that causes your computer to crash when you reboot is even worse. We’ll show you how to clean viruses from your computer even if you can’t boot into Windows by using a virus scanner in a Ubuntu Live CD. There are a number of virus scanners available for Ubuntu, but we’ve found that avast! is the best choice, with great detection rates and usability. Unfortunately, avast! does [...]

Windows Phone 7 offers a unique and exciting UI that displays lots of information efficiently on the screen.  And with a simple Rainmeter theme, you can have the same UI and content directly on your Windows 7 desktop. Turn your Desktop into a Windows Phone 7 lookalike To give your Windows 7 desktop a Windows Phone 7 makeover, first you need to have the free Rainmeter application installed.  If you do not have it installed, [...]

There’s any number of great antivirus tools that help protect your PC from viruses, but what about when you encounter an already-infected PC? Your best bet is a boot CD, and the free AVG Rescue CD cleans viruses easily. The AVG Rescue CD comes in two flavors: an ISO image that can be easily burned to an optical disc, or a compressed version that can be installed to a bootable flash drive. Once you’ve done [...]