If you are like me, you don’t like plain and boring backgrounds. Through one my YouTube subscriptions, I have been introduced to great piece of software to create customized backgrounds for your desktop. That software is called John’s Background Switcher (JBS) and it was written by a gentleman named John Connors.

JBS can be set up to change pictures periodically to as much as every hour. You can use pictures from your computer, Flicker, Facebook, and/or Picasa. Once you setup the credentials, it will pull the photos you select. This program launches on start up and sits in your system tray, it does very little to hurt your system’s performance so you have no worries about slowing your computer down. (more…)

Have you ever wished there was a piece of software that would save you time from going to all the different locations on your system to perform the simple maintenance tasks on your operating system? I have and now thanks to one of the YouTube channels I subscribe to, I have one. This handy utility is called TweakNow PowerPack 2009. (more…)

In the world of web hosting, there are many choices when it comes to which web hosting control panels you can choose from. DirectAdmin and cPanel are the two most popular control panels offered in the world of hosting.

With that said, we decided to go ahead and rip each one of these apart in a side-by-side comparison to see which one will win our hearts over. It’s time to put your IT hat on.  Here goes nothing! (more…)

For years and years I have always stood behind AVG, as the best possible anti-virus solution ever! In the beginning it was two fold, both the fact that it was free and that it was also the best. Over the past few releases I have noticed many new features, most of which are good, but in general slow the software down a lot.

One of its biggest advantages when it came out was that it didn’t bog your system down like Norton and Mcafee did at the time. Simply switching out a customers anti-virus program made it seem like a whole new PC. Not so much anymore. I’ve been running the latest version of AVG on a stacked Windows 7 laptop and I have to say, aside from the annoying toolbar they want to install, and most of the good stuff going to paid it just doesn’t make the grade anymore.

What was great before is you almost never knew it was even on your system, now even with 8GB of Ram and a 64bit processor I can always tell when the scans are running. (boo)

I am not saying it doesn’t scan well anymore, its fine for that, but it just ain’t so hot anymore. I fear I will be switching someday soon, I am just not sure yet.

Potential new suitors for my love, Avira and Avast.

Not that were against them making money but In our opinion they may have gone overboard on the features in an attempt to build enough value for all us cheapskates to finally buy it. Me, Id rather they sell advertising space on their dashboard.

It’s hard to image leaving after so many great years who will get our children?

What do you think? What do you use?

Have you ever ran upstairs to your computer, offloaded a bunch of photo’s from your new digital camera with the intention to email them off to all your friends when you find out the file size is way to big? With all the new and latest digital cameras becoming more and more affordable people are taking photos in over 10 Mega Pixel, when in reality 1 Mega Pixel would be just fine. Most people use photos at on average in the 3X5 size, some 5X7, and in rare cases maybe a (more…)