Posts filed under 'Computers'

Guest article by Emma Best from Laptopical
Whenever you play computer games that utilizes 3D graphics, a decent frame rate of about 25-30 frames per second is a prerequisite to make the games run smoothly and be at all enjoyable. If you play on a desktop PC, you always have the option to put in a more powerful graphics card, but that’s not an option with laptop computers. Another problem with laptops – but one that can be avoided – is the lack of updated graphics card drivers. Using updated drivers can provide better performance in new games thanks to game-specific fixes and improvements. (more…)

Have you got a Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2007 file which you cannot open in your older version of Microsoft Office 2000, Office 2003 or Office XP? Its important to be aware that your important Powerpoint presentation or Word  document might not open in older versions of Microsoft Office. Here is the fix. (more…)

Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the next major software version which will replace the Mac OS X Leopard, and Apple gave a preview to developers about what is expected to power the next version of the very popular operating system. Mac OS X Snow Leopard promises to streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality, while reducing the footprint of Mac OS X. (more…)

Apple has launched the Back to School promo wherein if you’re a student, faculty, or staff member of higher education institutions and you buy a Apple Mac computer before September 15, you can get a free iPod touch or iPod nano! (more…)

Adobe labs has released latest beta versions of its popular Creative Suite softwares Dreamweaver CS4, Fireworks CS4, and Soundbooth CS4 and they can be downloaded right now for free to test and try by anyone at least for 2 days. (more…)

Microsoft has partnered with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program to make the Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost XO laptops for the world’s poorest children. (more…)

Want to Download AVG Free? AVG Technologies has recently released the AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, the latest version of popular free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine. (more…)

Shutdown day is back this year on 3rd May 2008 and encourages you to shutdown your computer for 24 hours. Last year the Shutdown Day was on 24 March 2008, and emerged as a popular experiment to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day. (more…)

Guest article by Quakeboy from TechTola.com
Here are some cool tips to improve your Word 2007 experience.

1) Oh S***! I forgot to copy the fonts…

In case you’ve used custom fonts in your document, it will start looking bad and misaligned when opened on another computer. The only solution is to manually install all the custom fonts you have used to the target computer, on which you are trying to open your Word file on. Moreover, you will need to know the administrator password (which wont be known in many cases) to install fonts.

Word 2007 answers this problem by packaging all the custom fonts along with the document file. Steps to enable it are as follows. (more…)

About.com is holding the IM Best Awards 2008 to find the most popular and top instant messengers. In March 2008 their readers nominated their favorite instant messengers in six categories for the first ever IM Best Awards, a celebration of the best in the IM industry and now you can vote to support your Favorite Instant Messengers. (more…)