Archive | MS / Windows RSS feed for this section

Windows 7’s Login Background to be Customizable

March 16th, 2009

3 Comments

The recently leaked build of Windows 7, build 7057, has a new (and rather ugly) login background. But don’t start your Windows bashing yet, because, as Windows hacker, Rafael Rivera explains, the background is customizable without third party hacks. Yes, Microsoft, vowing to actually listen to it’s users this time, has delivered on their promise […]

Continue reading...

Grand Theft Auto 4 PC: Resource Hog Edition

March 13th, 2009

2 Comments

Sitting next to me is 4 PC, I got it for Christmas by a keen-eyed family member who snatched it up at Walmart before it went out of stock. Now I’ve been a big fan of the GTA series for a long time. I even upgraded my desktop computer to run GTA SA when it […]

Continue reading...

Inspiron LCD Gone Bad

January 27th, 2009

3 Comments

Why did it have to happen to me? An issue I can’t resolve — broken hardware. I woke up this morning, opened my laptop and bam… heard a strange sizzling noise for about 2 seconds, then my screen went blank. “Strange,” I thought. I figured it had something to do with rouge permissions or Power […]

Continue reading...

Why Is Internet Explorer Still Popular?

November 7th, 2008

1 Comment

The Internet has progressed a lot in the past 10 years. The only thing that hasn’t changed is the #1 web browser which Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still holds strong after all these years. Granted the “IE Bus” has lost its way, it’s still on the right track even with slipping ground. Back in the end […]

Continue reading...

I’m A PC And… WTF?

September 19th, 2008

6 Comments

Microsoft’s newest rounds of ads directly target Apple’s highly succesful “Get A Mac” ads. He’s back. Yep, your old friend PC. But wait! Hey… that’s not the “real” PC! You guessed it. Microsoft has a PC look-alike sporting the latest rounds of the $300M budget Bill Gates Co. has shelled out to let people know […]

Continue reading...