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Classic Shell Review – Windows 8 Start Button and Start Menu

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Microsoft Windows 8 has been widely criticized for not having classic Windows features like the Start Button and Start Menu. While the latest version of Windows includes a comprehensive Start Screen with customizable shortcuts and a nifty search feature, loyal Windows users who have been using the decades old interface features have been complaining quite loudly across the web. As for the previous Windows versions like XP, Vista and 7, several UI tweaks are being … Read more

Anker 18W 3.6A Car Charger Review

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The Anker 18W Dual USB Port car charger I reviewed is quite compact and can charge both a tablet and a smartphone at the same time. The max amp output of any single port is 3.6amp so if you are not using both ports at the same time you can charge any device that has up to a 3.6amp draw as long as it has a 5V input. As mentioned, the Anker Dual USB Charger … Read more

Review of ToomkyGames.com – Find Free Online Safe Games to Play

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Are you bored with routine work, having a dull day in the office, or have some leisure time?  Then check out the following game site ToomkyGames.com! Toomkygames.com is a free full version games site which features online as well as desktop games. Kids and adults can spend hours beating each others high scores in their favorite games. Games on this site are unique and as addictive as any other online game portal. Without a doubt Toomkygames.com … Read more

Using Pokki to Add Start Button to Windows 8

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I have been using Windows 8 for quite a while now but without a touch screen monitor it makes it difficult to really like the Windows 8 start screen and I did find myself missing the Windows 7 start button.  There are some tools online including freeware and paid applications that add a Windows 7 start menu to Windows 8 but Pokki so far is my favorite application for adding a Windows start menu to … Read more

Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 Smartphone Unveiled

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Samsung finally lifted the curtains on its latest goliath to join their line of plus size phones the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3. This smartphone isn’t merely big, it’s record breaking. Weighing in as the biggest smartphone to date, the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 squeaks by its adversary, the  6.1 inch Huawei Ascend Mate, by a fraction of an inch. Calling the Samsung Galaxy Mega a phone may seem like a stretch due to its size but … Read more

Is There Website Insurance for Internet Marketers?

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There literally is online insurance for anything these days and it should come as no surprise that you can actually find a few rare insurance companies that offer website insurance which can also include e-commerce insurance, cyber liability insurance, and more.  Basically there are ways to insure your online business to help protect assets, in the event of hacking, outages, legal liability for IP infringement, data protection, defamation…etc. Now your typical online marketing or affiliate … Read more

How to Root Samsung Galaxy S4 Running on Exynos 5 Processor

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A couple of weeks ago, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4, which is one of the world’s most anticipated Android smartphones at an unpacked event in New York. Although after an official announcement, we have yet to see the Galaxy S4 on sale for the masses, but that didn’t stop the folks over at XDA-Developers who have already managed to root the Samsung Galaxy S4 which runs specifically on the Exynos 5 octa-core processor. While I … Read more

Five Great Gaming Headphones For Your PC

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More and more people are using headphones with their computers, and not just for business purposes. Gaming has become the newest rage in headphone use, with more than just teenagers getting in on the action. Gaming headphones allow the user to connect with other players from around the world. Gone is the time when you had to be in the same room to play an interactive video game, now you do not even have to … Read more

Google Ditched Webkit for its own Blink Solution

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For those folks those who are wondering what I’m talking about; Webkit and Blink are both web engines which are used by popular internet browsers such as Google Chrome and Opera. Google in a recent blog post has announced that it will ditch the  industry standard Webkit which it had been using in Chrome browser for so long now, announced they will replace it with its own handmade rendering engine called Blink.  But it isn’t … Read more

Remove Image from Google Search

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Let’s say you have a few images on your site that you want in articles, but don’t want to show up in Google Image search. There are a few steps you should follow to remove images from Google Search one that makes an immediate removal request and the other which permanently makes it so the image won’t be indexed and show up on Google Image Search. To remove an image from Google Search this actually … Read more

Room Full of Computer Parts can Lead to Giveaways

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I find my home office has become somewhat of a good old fashioned car junkyard as of late, but instead of old car parts, cars, hoods, wheels, tires, engines and other car junk it is home to Computer Parts, PC Peripherals, tablet peripherals, cases, headsets, hubs, routers, Ethernet cables, and much more. I managed to forge a few good relationships with companies who send us products to test and review and some of the extras … Read more

Install Plantronics GameCom 780 Drivers for Windows 8

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The first thing I noticed when my brand new Plantronics GameCom 780 7.1 Headphones arrived was that the CD didn’t run the setup.exe in Windows 8, and going to Plantronics website there were no drivers listed for Windows 8.  Windows 8 does install some default drivers to make the headphones work as regular 2 channel headphones but the audio quality and sound quality are lacking and this isn’t what the headphones are made for. Well … Read more

Review: HP Envy 27-inch LED Lit Monitor with Beats Audio

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  Are you currently looking for one of the best and newest monitors on the market? Look no further. This is the HP Envy 27. Released in February of this year and shown at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The HP Envy 27 is the newest monitor to come from HP. I’m here to tell you exactly why this monitor is one that you will definitely enjoy and not regret purchasing. From the moment you … Read more

Install Visual Studio 2012 from Dream Spark without using SDM

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Dream Spark is a great resource for students because it allows you to download developer tools for free if you can prove that you are a student. This novel initiative by Microsoft has been highly praised by everyone. However, it is quite annoying to download Visual Studio 2012 or other large files from Dream Spark because of it’s crappy Secure Download manager or SDM. SDM or Secure Download Manager is a piece of software that … Read more

The Truth About Apple’s Pricing Structure

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I was shopping for a new computer the other day at Staples and as soon as I told the guy working there that I was primarily a Mac user looking to buy a Windows 8 laptop, he brought out all of the pro-Microsoft, Apple-bashing opinions that IT professionals have come up with everywhere Apple products are sold. And although I was a Mac user looking to switch to Windows, it doesn’t mean I’m turning anti-Apple. … Read more

Facebook is Changing Faces Again Very Soon

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Got bored of Facebook’s timeline visual? Here’s something new which will be introduced very soon. Facebook always tried to give new features to their users whether they wanted them or not, and the biggest social networking site Facebook is currently rolling out new changes for the users once again. This feature which already exists for some users  includes a reply button on comments, and news feed features. News Feed: A few weeks ago Facebook announced that they were bringing a new … Read more

HP ElitePad 900 an Incredible Fusion of Computer and Tablet

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Software and Hardware provider Hewlett-Packard (HP) company has came up with a business tablet that is the HP ELITEPAD 900 for the market. By keeping an eye on iPad and other tablet success and usage, HP has developed a new ElitePad tablet that merges features of both computer and tablet in this new device.  We have heard of tablets, phablets (phone tablets), would this be called a lablet?. HP presented this tablet with two kinds of memory … Read more

Free Space on Kindle Fire with Clean Master

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If you have an 8GB Kindle Fire (1st or 2nd generation) or a Kindle Fire HD and it only has 8GB or even 16GB of space then you may find out that it quickly fills up, this is especially true after you start adding applications and games, using them frequently as well as storing media files on your Kindle Fire device. You may be quite familiar with this message on the Kindle Fire when you … Read more

RedRay 4K Player: Goodbye Optical Media

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4K hasn’t really even hit the homes yet other than being able to see 4K capable television displays at recent trade shows and you can already see RedRay is jumping into the fray with offering the first 4K player for home consumers. Now, this player is capable of doing true 4K, Ultra HD, 1080p or 720p and up-converts media to Ultra HD as well.  One thing to note about the device is that there is … Read more

5 Free Ebook Readers for Windows PC

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Do you like reading Ebooks a lot on your Windows PC? I read anywhere between 10 and 100 Ebooks each month, in various formats like txt, doc, docx, pdf, mobi and epub. While I can also read txt files on my iPod Classic, using a laptop or desktop PC is much better. I can choose more book formats on a PC along with better page navigation and larger text size. So, if you have access … Read more