Where can I download free Holiday screensavers?

Question: Where can I download a free Christmas screensaver? Answer: There are a lot of free screensavers that you can download, but be careful because many of them come loaded with spyware or adware that can invade your system. It’s not worth downloading something that appears to be free, but then slows down your system, tracks your online activites, or…

How do I change the default Windows installation folder?

Question: Hi Ricky, I’m trying to install a computer game with the cd rom included. It wants to install to the “C” drive, but when my original hard drive was fried in an unfortunate accident several years ago Dell came out and replaced it and said it had to be an “I” drive from here on in. So I’m getting…

Copy data files from an old hard drive to a new system

Question: My dell 8400 tower went down, replaced power supply and ..nothing. How can I get everything off the hard drive, install into another tower, or take it somewhere to download to external drive?

Email Ringtones to a Cell Phone

Question: Someone sent me 2 ringtones in an email. How can I e-mail them to my phone? Is there anyway I can bluetooth them?

Aifone.A Bot threatens iPhone buyers

The recent iPhone launch is being exploited by cyber-crooks for financial gain. Panda Labs (makers of Panda Internet Security 2007) has uncovered a tool that controls a botnet made up of over 7,500 zombie computers infected by the Aifone.A bot Trojan. If the user of an infected PC tries to buy an iPhone online, their confidential data might end up…

How to convert Hi-8 or VHS videos to DVD

How to convert your analog recordings from Hi-8 or VHS into digital movies and save them to DVD.

How to copy music from your iPod to iTunes

Apple made a stellar product with the iPod (I own a black 4 GB nano that I use almost every day), but for various reasons they decided to not allow music stored on an iPod to be transferred to your computer using iTunes.

How to enable “Night Shift” on iOS 9.3

With the new iOS 9.3 update, Apple introduced a feature called “Night Shift” that makes the colors of your iPhone screen warmer at night, reducing blue light. This can help a lot if you use your iPhone before bed and have trouble sleeping. The warmer colors can help you sleep better. This feature is buried a little bit in the settings, but following these simple…

How to Prevent Duplicate Blackberry Emails

Question: I keep getting duplicate emails on my Blackberry Curve 8310, and it seems to be only messages that I reply to (where the original message will show up again after I reply to it, even if it was received several weeks ago). Is there a way to turn this off? Answer: The trick for turning off duplicate emails was…

Smart Phones that let you Text without a Data Plan

The drawback with iPhones, Blackberries, and most other Qwerty devices is that you usually are required to purchase a data plan that includes web browsing and email.

Top 5 Reasons To Rip Your DVD Movies

Question: I’d like to convert my favorite commercial DVD movies into video format, so that I can view them from my laptop or desktop computer. Preferably in a format that I can send to my iPhone when I get one (it’s on my Christmas list), or to an iPod video. I’d also like to make backup copies of my movies.…

How do I transfer pictures from my Blackberry Torch to my computer?

I have a Blackberry Torch phone and I’d like to transfer photos from the bb to my computer. I was looking at the Blackberry Desktop Manager that has a Bluetooth option, but I’m not sure how to use it. Can you help me with this?