The Tech Diary of an IT support geek

5 Ways to Improve your Computer’s Performance

No doubt, Slow or sluggish computers can be extremely annoying. Oftentimes, they delay your work and may not allow you meet deadlines. In many cases, it may be because there is no enough space in the hard disk or too many background programs. These situation can get you really frustrated to the point of feeling like to smash your PC or Laptop. Please don’t, instead use the 5 tips below to speed … [Read more...]

Introduction To Windows 8?

Microsoft Windows 8 is the newest member of the Windows operating system line and features major user interface changes over its predecessors.   Windows 8 Release Date Windows 8 was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012 and was made available to the public on October 26, 2012. Windows 8 is preceded by Windows 7and is currently the most recent version of Windows … [Read more...]

How To Externally Get Data Off An Old Hard Drive,?

You saved an old hard drive (or three) from previous computers and now you’d like to get at the data on it. Is there an easy way to access the data without cracking open your current computer and mounting the hard drives inside? Ahhh the hassle of old hard drives. There’s hardly a geek around, or even casual computer owner for that matter, that doesn’t have a few old drives squirreled away. … [Read more...]

Easy and powerful tips for editing HD Videos

Working with the video of camcorders such as the SonyHDR-HC1 can produce a serious business.  HD videocontains four times the number of pixels that standard definition offers, and it's much moreheavily compressed.  Keep in mind that you need a powerful computer witha lot of memory to deal with the extra data andcompression.  Pinnacle for example, recommends aminimum 512 MB of RAM … [Read more...]

Great Wholesale Discount OEM Software Deals

Software Deals OEM is an acronym that stands for 'Original Equipment Manufacturers.' OEM software is software that is mainly sold to large equipment manufacturers such as hardware manufacturers and computer builders. These large businesses purchase software in bulk and are good candidates for getting discount OEM software. Third-party software such as is commonly found in consumer electronics … [Read more...]

Easily Install / update laptop/desktop drivers offline

Many tech savvy and geeks like some us often get very much frustrated when presented with some archaic / old pc models like lenovo , ibm , e-machines even some very old dell , accer , hp , lg and samsung as their drivers can't be found easily even when using windows update and some cheap driver download manger . Just recently I had to format my grandma Compaq pentium 3 desktop and was faced … [Read more...]

Need Anti-Virus/internet security For Windows 8? Read this

Long time ago I wrote little review on top rated / best anti virus (free & paid) for 2010 but Now We are looking at best anti virus program for 2013 or majorly for Microsoft windows 8 . As operating System Vendor upgrades from time to time  malicious code (virus , malware , etc) master-minders keep optimizing their  codes for maximum attack which will definitely override any default security … [Read more...]

Download Windows 8 Tweaker To enable hidden feartures

Many are already stocked with all popular regular ribbon like windows start menu and finding it difficult getting used to the new windows 8 start menu that has mobile like navigation. Among this are many customization option in windows 8 which are currently hidden , with this little application you can enable a lot of hidden features including the type of start menu you have in windows 7 and all … [Read more...]