Great tip on handling Autorun! on Conficker Worm's Infected Over 9 Million PCs - Is Your Work or Home PC One of Them?
Posted 01/22/2009 at 01:04:43pm
It's amazing how illogical a business built on binary logic can be. ...
How to tell if you're infected with Conficker on Conficker Worm's Infected Over 9 Million PCs - Is Your Work or Home PC One of Them?
Posted 01/21/2009 at 11:54:17pm
The easiest way to tell if you're infected is to look at the writeups on the various antivirus vendors' information pages and see if the signs of infection are occuring on your system. For example, if ...
Outstanding! Glad to see the keyboard's back! on 20 Windows 7 Tweaks & Tips – Every Secret Uncovered to Date
Posted 01/21/2009 at 02:41:55pm
These shortcuts demonstrate that Microsoft's serious about making Win7 more useful as well as better-looking. Thanks for collecting these!-------------------------------------------------------------- ...
Who will guard the guardians (of our data)? on Malware Infection at Heartland Payment Systems Imperils 250k Cardholders' Data
Posted 01/20/2009 at 06:56:56pm
It's a problem as old as Latin:Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?When will companies that handle data get better about avoiding breaches? It's past time for the "good guys" to figure out how to ...
Ontrack Data Recovery good, but sometimes Knoppix is better on Data Recovery Software Roundup -- Don Your Detective Cap and Find Your Missing Data!
Posted 01/20/2009 at 03:49:02pm
I've had great success with Ontrack Easy Data Recovery Professional (about $200, so it was too expensive for this roundup), but recently, I had to recover data from a corrupt laptop SATA drive that to ...
RAID issues with Seagate 1.5TB drive - we're all over it on Western Digital to Break 2TB Drive Barrier This Week
Posted 01/14/2009 at 02:37:47pm
Here's the article we ran on this issue back in December '07: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/rumor_random_freezes_plague_seagate_15tb_hard_drive_owners------------------------------------------ ...
Sounds like a great idea...but the name might be a problem on 'Pogoplug' Device Makes Any USB Hard Drive into NAS
Posted 01/08/2009 at 02:10:08pm
I'm looking forward to giving the Pogoplug a try, as it will make my ever-expanding family of external hard disk drives a new place to play. I'm wondering how Pogoplug will handle file-sharing conflic ...
At last! A router you don't need to hide on D-Link Xtreme N DIR-685 Has Room For NAS and a Digital Photo Frame
Posted 01/06/2009 at 04:29:06pm
The addition of a small digital picture frame's pretty clever, as it gives you a perfect reason to leave the router out in the open for better signal strength. Depending upon the price, I can see poss ...
Great article, and now we need a similar one for wireless on How To: Troubleshoot and Optimize Your Internet Experience
Posted 01/05/2009 at 12:39:38pm
A follow-up article should cover WPA/WPA2/WEP key problems, problems with "easy" wireless setup, what to do if you are getting a marginal wireless signal between your router and clients, and ...
Power Pack 1 fixed file corruption problems, so WHS is ready on New Tech Brief for Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 Helps You Share Media More Easily
Posted 01/03/2009 at 09:36:23pm
Power Pack 1 fixed that nasty file corruption bug, and it's delivered automatically to WHS users via Windows Update if you have a version that predates Power Pack 1. You can also download it manually. ...
Here's how to get a trial version of WHS on New Tech Brief for Windows Home Server with Power Pack 1 Helps You Share Media More Easily
Posted 01/03/2009 at 09:28:06pm
Order a 120-day evaluation CD of Windows Home Server here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/countries.mspx. You pay shipping only.I used the trial version of WHS w ...
Tricks you can play in BASIC (and, presumably, in Small Basic) on Redmond Provides a Leg Up to Beginning Programmers with Small Basic
Posted 12/23/2008 at 07:58:45pm
One of my cousins had to write some phrase 100 times as punishment for some high school infraction. He asked the teacher if he could type it. He "typed" it, all right. He wrote a BASIC pro ...
Posted 12/16/2008 at 08:25:50pm
"Thanks," ZeroWing, for "inspiring" today's hackers?!? Seriously, Quintix256, thanks for the reference! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
Which IE? All of them! on Viewing This Site (or Any Site) on IE? Switch Browsers Now, Some Experts Say (update 2)
Posted 12/16/2008 at 08:20:32pm
Versions 5.01, 6, 7, and 8 of IE are all affected (see paragraph 3) on all currently supported versions of Windows (2000, XP, Vista, server editions, etc.). It's a long-standing problem, although it w ...
OpenCL will make smarter software possible starting in 2009 on Nvidia Brings Standardization to GPU Coprocessing with OpenCL 1.0 - Updated
Posted 12/11/2008 at 05:16:07pm
OpenCL is an API, just like OpenGL and DirectX. While developers must put this new API to work, just as they have other APIs, you and I will see smarter, more powerful devices in the future as a resul ...
You make an excellent point, Penguinboy... on Nvidia Brings Standardization to GPU Coprocessing with OpenCL 1.0 - Updated
Posted 12/11/2008 at 05:13:27pm
...about the cross-platform power of OpenCL. The OpenCL page at the Khronos website is a good resource for seeing how OpenCL will help developers create more powerful software for a wide range of comp ...
A great 'blast from the past'... on Read Back Issues of Maximum PC (and Other Magazines) at Google Books
Posted 12/10/2008 at 12:23:40pm
Thanks to this partnership, I was able to find the first article I wrote for Maximum PC monthly, RAM - All Questions Answered (it's on page 48 of the March 2004 issue). Very cool!------------------- ...
The coolest Logitech mouse ever made - the ClearCase C7! on One Billion Logitech Mice Now in the Wild
Posted 12/04/2008 at 04:39:04pm
I first discovered the classic Logitech C7 3-button mouse when I worked for a computer store in 1986-89. In addition to the standard beige model, Logitech also made a ClearCase version in a clear (wh ...
Posted 12/03/2008 at 08:55:50pm
"Beemer" is certainly the more common slang, but according to the BMW Car Club of British Columbia, 'beemer' is most properly used to refer to BMW motorcycles, and 'bimmer' for BMW cars. As ...
Thanks to everyone who have written up their Win7 experiences on Windows 7's Pre-Beta is "Safe, Solid - Exciting?"
Posted 11/20/2008 at 06:35:33pm
I appreciate everyone who has written in with their hands-on experience with Win7. Details about compatible and incompatible programs are especially useful to those who are considering using it as a p ...
Couldn't run Vista before? Sounds like SP1 means "try again!" on Microsoft's Surrender to Intel over Vista Capable Requirements Angered HP, Pleased Others, Newly Released Emails Reveal
Posted 11/18/2008 at 02:09:30pm
Djcage69, thanks for sharing your story. SP1 includes many more drivers as well as many other fixes, so if you couldn't run original Vista, take another look at SP1.----------------------------------- ...
From graphical toy to vital OS, what a ride it's been! on 25 Years Ago, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
Posted 11/12/2008 at 04:02:38pm
I only saw Windows 1.x as an OEM product on Zenith Z-286 PCs (unofficial motto "the weirdness goes in before the name goes on"), but I remember selling Windows 2.0 primarily as a way for use ...
Posted 11/06/2008 at 10:53:35pm
Thanks for the tip about VirtualBox. It's available at http://www.virtualbox.org. It runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS and Open Solaris. Version 2.0.x, introduced in September, supports 64-bit operating s ...
Posted 10/31/2008 at 03:35:25pm
While the screenshot I grabbed for the header shows a game-like demo, the full blog post also shows off demos of CD album labels and charting. Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player, and plenty of ...
Posted 10/17/2008 at 08:43:05pm
$999 is the full price for Photoshop CS4 Extended; $699 is the full price for standard Photoshop CS4. Check this website for upgrade options: http://store.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/software/photosho ...
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