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REVIEW: Windows Live Essentials

January 24th, 2009 By pelokee Leave a Comment

http://download.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0 In keeping with my recent theme of praising Microsoft, I bring you Windows Live Essentials. Windows Live seems to be an initiative by Microsoft to help you establish your online presence while bringing you new/updated applications to make the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FREE Stuff, Home PC, Reviews, Technology Tagged With: Live Mail, Live Movie, Live Photos, Windows Live, Windows Live Essentials

REVIEW: Revo Uninstaller 1.80

January 18th, 2009 By pelokee Leave a Comment

- Download it here - Did you know that when you uninstall a program with its own uninstaller, it doesn't always remove all traces of itself? It is pretty harmless, but more often than not there are registry entries, files, and folders left behind. A new utility, Revo Uninstaller, will help make sure … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FREE Stuff, Home PC, Reviews, Technology

Circuit City Died Today

January 17th, 2009 By pelokee Leave a Comment

I knew Circuit City was in some financial trouble but never really knew the extent of it. I wrote the place off a long time for several reasons: In store help was terrible - I'm not sure if employees were just of the grain that didn't care, or if the salaries/incentive plans were bad, or if there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Technology Tagged With: Circuit City, Circuit City store closing, smartpost, store closing

To Vista or Not to Vista, that is the question…

January 12th, 2009 By pelokee Leave a Comment

I've debated for a very long time whether or not to express my feelings regarding Windows Vista. If for nothing more than to put the notion to sleep, I have caved to my inner voice and have just a few things to say amid all of this "Vista is terrible" propaganda. Ultimately, after extensive testing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology

Microsoft in the year 2009 – Where does Windows stand?

January 10th, 2009 By pelokee Leave a Comment

Microsoft and the Windows brand have taken a public relations beating lately, whether it be justified or not. It seems as though Apple gained some major ground - I'm talking perception and 'feel'; not necessarily interested in or discussing actual market share - and has been riding a major wave of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Apple, Linux, Mac, opinion, Ubuntu, Windows

Google Chrome Tips and Tricks

September 15th, 2008 By pelokee Leave a Comment

Let the Chrome customizations and tutorials begin! I found an article recently that outlines 10 tweaks and tips. Some are repeats of what I have shown you here, but some are new... Read about them here... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FREE Stuff, Technology Tagged With: chrome tips, Google chrome tips, google tips

Foxmarks – Keep Firefox Booksmarks in Sync

September 14th, 2008 By pelokee Leave a Comment

I use several different PC's and laptops during the course of just about every day. I have spent a lot of time going from machine to machine looking for a web site that I know I have bookmarked. I recently started using Foxmarks, and it has helped me retain my sanity in a big way! With Foxmarks, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FREE Stuff, Home PC, Reviews, Technology

How To: Burn an ISO image to a CD

September 11th, 2008 By pelokee Leave a Comment

For the purpose of this discussion, an ISO file is a single file representation of an entire CD worth of data. You can think of a *.ISO file much like a *.ZIP file. You download one file, but that file has to be extracted in order to get to what you really want. In the case of a ZIP file, you'd … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FREE Stuff, Home PC, Technology

Introduction to Google Chrome

September 10th, 2008 By pelokee Leave a Comment

Google has just released a new web browser called Chrome. We already have leaders like IE8 and FireFox 3 out, with Opera and Safari leading the pack of others making attempts to be larger players in this space. IE 8 is out in Beta 2 and makes up a lot of ground from IE 7 and promises new features … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FREE Stuff, Home PC, Reviews, Technology Tagged With: alternative browsers, chrome, chrome review, google browser, google chrome, google chrome review, web browseer

AVG Antivirus Free – Product Review – v8.0.169

September 9th, 2008 By pelokee Leave a Comment

AVG was a completely new product to me when I first installed Vista. Of course, my existing version of Symantec Antivirus would no longer work on Vista, so I had to look elsewhere for some protection. I actually looked on Windows Marketplace and found this nice little freebie. I've been using it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FREE Stuff, Reviews, Technology Tagged With: antispyware, antivirus, AVG, AVG antivirus, AVG Free, free avg

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