Comparisons between the Microsoft Windows, Apple MAC and Linux computer operating systems have been a long running topic since the beginning of time.Comparisons of these operating systems tend to reflect their origins, historic user bases and distribution models. We will start with a background comparison of the three operating systems. Windows Windows is one of…

Windows 7 allows 2 types of user accounts to be created; The Standard (Limited) account and the Administrator account. Another type of account, called the Guest account, is also created on a new Windows 7 installation, though disabled. The basic features of these accounts are listed below; Guests Account A guest account allows people to…

Many have heard of file systems like FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS. A few would have also heard of the less popular ones like exFAT, HFS+, ext4, etc. But what exactly are they all about and why should you care? Basically, what all these file systems do, according to Wikipedia, is organize data expected to be…

Darwinism is no stranger to IT. Given the pace of innovation, today's plum post is almost always one shift away from becoming tomorrow's pink slip. But the trends currently taking hold of IT organizations may have a broader impact on IT employment than we've seen in years. It's no secret that the cloud computing revolution…

YOUR MOTHER CALLS you to ask why you keep emailing her about “enhancements,” and your coworkers complain that you won’t stop sending them ads. Does this sound like you? A friend of mine recently found himself on the receiving end of a deluge of “bounced” spam email—junk messages that seemed to have been sent from…

I wrote about this company last year, paying glowing tributes to the quality of their service offerings, though I must admit that i had strong reservations about the company sustaining the quality of their service. Well, 6 months later, the story has not changed. In truth, i can say that they have even improved on…

WANT TO BLOCK all users of a Windows PC from opening certain websites, regardless of the browser they use? You need only make a few simple additions to the Windows hosts file. This method is straightforward and free, and it doesn’t require you to download or install any additional software. It’s an effective way to…

We discussed about Portable Apps on this blog a while back and we highlighted a few of its advantages as; - You have all your softwares with you at all times, installed on any regular flash drive. - Ability to bypass administrative level restriction. Use your regular softwares on any PC anytime, anywhere. - Reduce…

Arfa Karim Randhawa, the world's youngest Microsoft certified professional has died in a hospital here at the age of 16, her family said on Sunday. Randhawa was admitted to a military hospital in Lahore two weeks ago after she suffered epileptic seizures that caused brain damage on December 22.Doctors pronounced her dead late last night,…

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who is worth about $14 billion, closes down restaurants to talk to people, has gone paperless, and truly believes that the only difference between Microsoft and Apple in the mobile market is that the iPhone maker made one right decision--choosing ARM chips for its smartphone, rather than Intel's battery-hogging alternatives. That's…

For those of you that installed a 32-bit version of Windows, you have my condolences. Otherwise, you really made the right choice based on a number of reasons. I think it’s important in this day and age to run any operating system on the highest possible bit width offered, but there’s a few reasons particular…

Name it, chances are that I have used it before. From the early days of internet access in Nigeria in the late 1990s when ISPs like hyperia and linkserve held sway with their dial up internet, to more recent times with ISPs like IPNX, Zoom, Onet and the GSM networks like MTN, Glo, Etisalat calling…