1. The original name of windows was Interface Manager. 2. The first microprocessor created by Intel was the 4004. It was designed for a calculator, and in that time nobody imagined where it would lead. 3. IBM 5120 from 1980 was the heaviest desktop computer ever made. It weighed about 105 pounds, not including the 130 pounds external floppy... Continue Reading →

1. Only about 10% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers. 2. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer. 3. Doug Engelbart invented the first computer mouse in around 1964 which was made of... Continue Reading →

1. Use passwords for user account protection You wouldn't leave important documents laying out for everybody to see right? Likewise, you have to put away the data kept on your PC / laptop in a safe place, secured behind a password in your account. Even if you never log on to online, you will still... Continue Reading →

Most longtime command line users rely on the cp command to copy files and directories, but Mac OS X offers another solution with the ‘ditto’ command. Ditto is slightly more advanced but can be advantageous to ‘cp’ for several reasons, as it not only preserves ownership attributes and permissions but also file resource forks and... Continue Reading →

Please note: during this procedure you'll lose any data on your USB flash drive. Please be extra careful during formatting, choosing the wrong drive will erase it completely. you will need PC running Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 Windows 7, 32/64-bit (depending on the system) installation disk USB drive with at least 8GB of free storage Step 1:... Continue Reading →

A new report from Bit9 and Carbon Black details how 2015 was the worst year in history for OSX malware. In a 10 week study conducted by both organizations it was discovered that  2015 had 5 times more malware than all of 2010-2014 combined. Currently Windows is still the most targeted operating system, but with Apple... Continue Reading →

Microsoft has slowly but surely pushed the command line aside in the Windows interface. This is not without reason, as it’s an antiquated and mostly unnecessary tool from an era of text-based input that has long passed. But there still are some commands that remain useful, and Windows 8 even added new features. Here are the commands every... Continue Reading →

Introduction Before Windows was created, the most common operating system that ran on IBM PC compatibles was DOS. DOS stands for Disk Operating System and was what you would use if you had started your computer much like you do today with Windows. The difference was that DOS was not a graphical operating system but... Continue Reading →

1) Pivot Tables Pivot Tables are used to reorganize data in a spreadsheet. They won't change the data that you have, but they can sum up values and compare different information in your spreadsheet, depending on what you'd like them to do. Let's take a look at an example. Let's say I want to take a look at how many... Continue Reading →

Even though we live our lives bathed in 3G and 4G networks, there is still a lot to be said for good, reliable WiFi. Nowadays, there are so many free WiFi hotspots around that the chances are fairly good that you’ll be able to connect to one up fairly easily, especially if you live in a... Continue Reading →