Everything You Need To Know About the Blue Screen of Death

Everything You Need To Know About the Blue Screen of Death: "The blue screen of death — or BSOD — is always an unwelcome sight. BSODs appear when Microsoft Windows encounters a critical error it can’t recover from, requiring a reboot and possibly resulting in lost work.

A blue screen of death is the worst type of error a computer can experience, unlike an application crash, which doesn’t bring down the whole system. A BSOD is the result of low-level software crashing — or faulty hardware."

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How To Protect Yourself From Online Services Shutting Down

How To Protect Yourself From Online Services Shutting Down: "Google’s unfortunate decision to shut down its RSS reader service, Google Reader, is an important reminder of just how unreliable the cloud can be. When using free online services, and in some cases even some paid ones, you can never be too sure what is going to happen to your content, and whether or not the service will be available a year from now."

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As Yahoo buys Tumblr, Ghost offers bloggers a third way

As Yahoo buys Tumblr, Ghost offers bloggers a third way: "With eight days of his already successful Kickstarter campaign still remaining, John O'Nolan has cited the uncertainty surrounding Yahoo's newly-announced US$1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr as a reason to back his open source, non-profit blogging platform, Ghost."

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You Too Can Benefit From The Power Of Email Signatures

You Too Can Benefit From The Power Of Email Signatures: "A signature tells you something about a personality. Just as two people hardly write alike, they also sign differently. That’s how the “science” of Graphology came into being. But the digital age and the email signature have reduced the way you sign-off on a mail to a footnote. Just a typed name, and maybe a phone number or a Twitter handle – how utterly dull. Just as there is a way to write and format proper emails, there are also ways to end them well."

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nGroove Snap turns the car CD player into a smartphone mount

nGroove Snap turns the car CD player into a smartphone mount: "Driving and talking or texting on a cell phone is illegal in most parts of the world, and with good reason. However, using a phone as an in-car music player is standard practice for many people, and the safest way to do this is with a mount that keeps your phone secured and easily accessible. "

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Did Xbox One just make the long-rumored Apple TV set irrelevant?

Did Xbox One just make the long-rumored Apple TV set irrelevant?: "Remember when the rumor mill’s favorite hobby was obsessing about an Apple TV set? It seemed like every week, some publication or other was reporting on the mythical device. Many assumed it would be the company’s next big revolution: iPod, iPhone, iPad ... iTV. Well, don’t look now, but Microsoft just unveiled a device that does most of what we expected the iTV to do, in the form of the Xbox One."

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How to Migrate Your Google Account to a New One

How to Migrate Your Google Account to a New One: "Whether you’ve outgrown your college era email address and you want a professional one, or you want to change your firstname.maiden account to firstname.marriedname one, we’ve got you covered with a start-to-finish Google migration guide."

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Four time-saving iPhone tips | How To - CNET

Four time-saving iPhone tips | How To - CNET: "Microsoft unveils next-gen Xbox One. Get all the details here, now Share
CNET How To Four time-saving iPhone tips
Four time-saving iPhone tips
Access music-player and camera controls without unlocking the screen; create shortcuts to Web pages and make them easier to read; add numbers and punctuation via the press-hold-drag technique; and customize your music-player view options."

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How to Get Rid of the Modern Environment on a Windows 8 PC

How to Get Rid of the Modern Environment on a Windows 8 PC: "So you’re using Windows 8 on a desktop or laptop. Microsoft goes out of their way to make this more awkward, scattering the tweaks you need to turn Windows 8 into a serviceable desktop operating system all over the OS."

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Forget Windows Media Center: Use a Free Linux-Based Media Center System

Forget Windows Media Center: Use a Free Linux-Based Media Center System: "Windows 8 no longer comes with Windows Media Center. To get it, you’ll need to purchase both the Pro Pack and Media Center Pack upgrades from Microsoft for a total of $110. Consider using a free, Linux-based media center system instead."

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