Within this article I’m going to show you how you can upload images to your Photobucket account without having to visit the main site.  This allows you to save time and quickly host images without having to navigate away from important pages you might be working on, especially if you’re a busy ...

I have always found that one of the toughest parts about working in Photoshop is selecting parts of an image for deletion or enhancement. When I first started using Photoshop many years ago, I thought the only way to accurately make complicated selections, ones that aren’t simple rectangles or...

Recently, I bought a new USB flash drive and wanted to know whether the specs matched up to what it can actually do. Usually these days most USB flash drives are advertised as USB 2.0, but the brands among the bunch come with differing price tags. Some of it can be put on the shoulders of brand mark...

As a blogger I take so many damn screenshots it almost hurts. As a network administrator I take even more screenshots. Sometimes I have to take a screenie of a website but you can only capture what is actually displayed on the screen hence the name “screenshot”. So what do you do when a ...

The adoption of tags on the internet has almost become a prerequisite on any blog, website or social networking site. The ability to simply add a keyword to anything allows for much better organization and easier searching when something needs to be referenced in the future. Most often they are used...

I am an old school network admin and when I first found out I could re-size active hard drive partitions without losing my data back in the late 90’s on a Windows NT machine - I was ecstatic. Yes I am so old school I remember when it was called The Partition Magician and it was owned by PowerQuest...

Back in the days when computer hard disk capacities were within the range of a few megabytes and the majority of files were text documents, compression utilities like WinZip and WinRAR ruled the land. But in the terabytes world of today, we do not really need to compress any file for the sole purpos...

After you have been established in a home, apartment, condo, or workplace for an extended period of time, loads of purchases and other assets begin to build-up. Tracking all of this stuff can become very difficult as receipts get lost and remembering what something cost is almost an impossibility. S...

I have a lot of music on my computer. I won’t bore you with the numbers, but let’s just say that I periodically have to painstakingly go through my iTunes library, deleting the few songs I don’t listen to, just to free up room for some more music on my hard drive. Needless to say, ...

VirtualBox is a great way to test out new operating systems, without having to configure your machine to dual-boot. You can even install Windows 7 on VirtualBox. There are two ways to obtain free operating systems for VirtualBox: using virtual disk images (VDIs) or actual installation disks. Downloa...