There are a hundred reasons why people need more then 4gb of swap files on Windows these days. By default this is not always enabled, especially if the computer’s RAM was upgraded to a larger amount. On the same token, if the machine has 8GB of memory, then the swap files need to be increased [...]

How To: Find MAC Address on local computer One of the ways to increase security on a wireless (or really, ANY) network is to only allow computers with certain MAC Addresses to connect. Many wireless routers made for the consumer market have this feature built in and can be set in the security settings. Any [...]

I love straight good old text. It’s useful. It doesn’t carry any weird embedded characters when cutting and pasting like RTF, DOC, or even HTML does. Yet… TextEdit does not save plain text any longer. To me this is really quite a big deal. It’s really nice to be able to launch TextEdit to edit [...]

Download Squad posted a list of 5 annoying Programs on the PC. For the most part their list is fairly accurate in my opinion. Each of those pieces of software, and yes, even iTunes is bloated way beyond usefulness in a Windows world. Most of this could be chalked up to legacy code left over [...]

As a lot of people know Firefox tends to be a real memory hog after being used for a whole day. There have been several suggestions on how to fix it. The developers seem to have a pretty good idea where the issue is. They’re just not 100% sure how to fix it. But don’t [...]