Practically every laptop manufacturer ships with a trackpad or touchpad as the method of input for cursor movement and mouse clicks. Accepted form factor dictates that the trackpad be placed below the keyboard which certainly makes it convenient and efficient to switch between typing and mousing. However, that convenience comes at a price – at [...]
One of the first things I do on a fresh Windows install is disable the sound scheme – the tadas, bleeps, zings, and woos on every action and reaction is enough to drive me insane. Microsoft has gone to great lengths to make the audio experience within Windows less jarring and while I do feel [...]
Those of you that are web designers have likely grown a great disdain for Internet Explorer. IE is given, and rightly so, a ton of grief in this area because of Microsoft’s attitude towards following web standards. When a web browser is programmed to obey and render accurately to standards, a web designer can be [...]
The modern world, by and large, are quite conscious of energy consumption and some of the wastefulness that exists. Regardless of which side of the go green initiative you stand, it’s hard to argue against their not existing at least some unnecessary inefficiencies or waste. A potential source of an increased electricity consumption is the abundance [...]
On March 1st 2010 the release candidate of Windows 7 that Microsoft made free available last year began it’s gradual push towards expiration – every 2 hours your computer will shutdown. Your procrastination will now cause you a little bit of pain or at the very least, annoyance. Unfortunately, you’re only recourse at this point [...]