5 Great Windows 7 Gadgets That Display System Information.

I just purchased a Targus Chill Mat for my Alien ware laptop in hopes to keep the machine cooler while I gamed for long hours. After setting it up I began to get curious as to how hot my machine was actually running. I ended up going to intel’s website and checking out max temps for my core and a bunch of other information. After doing a search for “core temp app” I found a bunch...

The byte scale from 1 byte to 1 Monoicosebyte

While browsing through digg.com I came across this info graphic that puts perspective on just how big a Petabyte is. I found it interesting. For those of you who are not familiar with the way the “byte scale” works, here is the break down: Firstly: Byte – A group of binary digits stored and operated upon as a unit. Most often the term refers to 8-bit units or characters. The Scale: kilobyte...

Alienware AlienFX Winamp Plugin Tutorial

Get Plugin: http://adf.ly/45WDl Plugin Author: copyright 2008 Benjamin Thaut (http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de) IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW: 1. It takes a lot of patience to get this to work, In some cases the light kit will turn off and stay off until you either do a soft reset or full reboot . *Advice from the Author of the plugin: You might want to include, that if the AlienFX device gets completely stuck,...

Vista machine on the verge of death? Ubuntu OS can help!

Recently, I’ve had a couple machines running windows vista thrown into my lap. In each case I ended up installing Ubuntu and saw a huge change in performance. Here are two examples. The first was my own old toshiba laptop (dual core AMD 1.8 – 4GB ram) which overheated one too many times and was rendered useless. Vista Boot-time from complete shutdown was 8 minutes+. This was with nothing...

View and Grab files inside of an exe file.

Alpha SF Resource Explorer: While browsing the net for a way to check what’s inside an exe before running it, I found this article on “addictive tips”. “Alpha SF Resource Explorer is an application to view the resources included in EXE, DLL, CPL, SYS, SCR, OCX, AMC and AX files which is a ‘PE WIN32 Executable File’ . The idea behind it is to allow users to view the content...

Windows 7 file sharing with Apple computers Isn’t Reliable, Try Ubuntu Server

The easiest way to rip an ISO from a CD or DVD

I just Became the proud owner of an alienware m11x. The machine is amazing, but I doesn’t come with a CD/DVD drive. So I had to come up with a way to access my DVDs and CDs on my new machine. After googling and talking to friends of mine I decided to create an ISO (which is a copy of the CD) and put the ISO file on my new laptop via an external hard drive transfer. Then I would have to use somewhere...