Say you want downloaded a Quicktime (.mov, .qt, .3gp, etc..) movie and you want to watch it. You don’t want to use up too much resources of your computer. You don’t have to install the QuickTime player if you don’t like to. Like Real Alternative for Real Player, QuickTime has an alternative too. It’s known [...]

Bored of your default computer icons? Time to change them to something new, spice up your platform. Previously, I’ve mentioned about Crystal XP. Now, you can get more free icons from the following sites.
Free Icons Download is a site that provides high quality royalty free icons for Windows, Mac and Linux, Offers Ico, Gif, Bmp, [...]

Have you encounter printing problems in Canon PIXMA iP1880? First of all, you have ensure that the cable is connected and the printer is on. Still can’t print? Then you have to look for the “symptom”, for instance, blinking light. There are 2 light signals for Canon PIXMA iP1880.  If the printer is ready and [...]

This is a simple tutorial dedicated to my friend, Mei Ling. I hope this tutorial can help her solve the Chinese character input problem in her Windows XP.
If you want to input Chinese character (or other Asian languages like Japanese or Korean), the first thing you have to ensure is your Windows XP has the [...]

You cannot complete your Ubuntu Linux installation and see an error message like this:
Failed to start the X Server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X Server output to diagnose the problem?
Then, you are given a “Yes” or “No” option, and you [...]

Have you ever seen files that end with .001, .002 …as the file extension? These files are actually separated from one whole file for easy distribution / storage. Most of the time you will see such files when you are downloading files from Rapidshare or MegaUpload or other file hosting service.
They look something like this:

HJSplit [...]

Say, you have taken lots of photos using your digital camera and now you want to do some post-editing or manipulation to the photos. Adobe Photoshop can be your best choice, but it cost you money. We can get something similar for FREE.  You can signup an account in Adobe and use the free Photoshop [...]

Here is a scenario. When you want to delete a file or folder in your Windows, it is “undeletable”. No matter how many times you delete, you always get an error message that looks something like this: (note: z is a folder)

Or other error messages such as:

Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has [...]

Sometimes an application will “hang” and stop working. In Ubuntu Linux, there’s a feature called. With this feature, the not responding application will quit within clicks. In Windows, to quit a not responding application, you will have to go to the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del) to “End Task”.

Sometimes, it takes even [...]

Sometimes it’s really annoying to get error codes when using Microsoft Windows, yet we don’t know what do those error codes actually mean. The easiest way is to get connected to the Internet, and google for the meaning of the error codes for troubleshooting.
What if you don’t have an Internet connection while having such [...]