Have you ever wished you could just set a folder and have all of the music in that folder constantly dumped into iTunes, not forcing you to constantly import music? Of course there is always the folder watch feature in iTunes, but for those who aren’t satisfied with the built in features, there’s a new [...]

I remember when the Ultimate Steal promotion from Microsoft first came around a few years ago. Since then, I had thought they had stopped offering that but today I was proven wrong. A quick trip over to TheUltimateSteal.com showed me that Microsoft was still offering their ridiculously high dollar software for a ridiculously low price. [...]

One of the most dreaded things to see on Microsoft Windows system is the Blue Screen of Death. In this instance, I had a computer show the Blue Screen of Death upon booting claiming:
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
STOP 0×000000ED (0xaaaaaaaa,0xbbbbbbbb,0xcccccccc,0xdddddddd)
This error can either be caused by a problem with an IDE cable or the BIOS in which case you [...]

I am a huge fan of Carbonite’s online backup service. I have used them for quite a while and never had a problem. Carbonite has enabled me to recover my lost files so many times, preventing me from having to redo my countless hours of work that I accidentally deleted. With that said…on to the [...]

Now Mac users can enjoy all of the goodness that Carbonite has to offer. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Carbonite, it is an online backup service. Carbonite offers unlimited storage space for a very reasonable yearly price. How does it work? When you sign up for Carbonite you download and install a [...]

Last week I showed what could happen on a PC when the fonts are removed. This week, the problem got worse. Not only did all of the fonts go missing yet again causing the same weird symbol problem, now upon rebooting the computer all of the fonts were removed from the C:\Windows\Fonts [...]

I’ve seen some strange problems in the past, especially on Windows machines but never anything like this. The above picture is what I was confronted with. This was described to me as “it’s showing everything in hieroglyphic symbols.” I’d say that was a pretty accurate explanation. At first glance I figured it was the language [...]

It’s no secret that Internet Explorer is a web developer’s worst nightmare. With it’s crazy rendering issues, every web developer has to develop basically two or more versions of their stylesheets just to satisfy IE. While all version of IE have their independent issuses, it is undeniable that they are worse the farther back you [...]

In the midst of the Vista reputation repair expedition Microsoft is venturing on comes a light, Windows 7. Windows 7 is the name of the operating system set to follow Windows Vista. Vista was a major overhaul of the Windows operating system adding a sleeker interface and many much needed security features. Unfortunately, with this [...]

With the introduction of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite came a bunch of new file formats:
Word

.docx—Microsoft Office Word 2007 document
.docm—Microsoft Office Word 2007 macro-enabled document

PowerPoint

.pptx—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation
.pptm—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled presentation
.potx—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 template
.potm—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled template
.ppsx—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 show
.ppsm—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled show

Excel

.xlsb—Microsoft Office Excel 2007 [...]