100 Most Frequently Asked Help Desk Questions and Answers | Terminally Incoherent

100 Most Frequently Asked Help Desk Questions and Answers | Terminally Incoherent: "I have been working in IT for way to many years to be still considered a sane and well adjusted individual. After you spend a few years in this industry you realize that some questions asked by users keep recurring like bad dreams or glitches in the matrix."

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Power Pillow charges your electronic devices while you relax

Power Pillow charges your electronic devices while you relax: "The Power Pillow is a new product that its creators are billing as the “world’s first pillow that recharges smart devices.” The truth is rather less interesting, with the Power Pillow being a soft housing for a battery pack that can charge your mobile devices when a wall socket either isn't available or not in close proximity."

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How To Get Access to Experimental Features on Your Chromebook (or Just in Chrome)

How To Get Access to Experimental Features on Your Chromebook (or Just in Chrome): "Chromebooks default to the stable version of Chrome without any experimental features enabled. If you’re a geek, you can go out of your way to get the latest features before they roll out to everyone.

These tricks also work in similar ways in the Chrome browser on the desktop. Bear in mind that choosing to enable experimental features or using a more cutting-edge version of Chrome may result in crashes and other problems."

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How to clean a TV screen | How To - CNET

How to clean a TV screen | How To - CNET: "Cleaning a TV screen seems easy. Windex, right? Wrong. Most modern HDTVs have special coatings on their surface that can be ruined by strong cleansers.
But at some point, every HDTV screen needs a good cleaning."

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Thousands of visitors to yahoo.com hit with malware attack, researchers say

Thousands of visitors to yahoo.com hit with malware attack, researchers say: "Two Internet security firms have reported that Yahoo's advertising servers have been distributing malware to hundreds of thousands of users over the last few days. The attack appears to be the work of malicious parties who have hijacked Yahoo's advertising network for their own ends."

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What Is a Computer Virus? - Tom's Guide

What Is a Computer Virus? - Tom's Guide: "
But what is a computer virus, exactly? And do we really need to worry about it?"

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Glitter nail polish can protect your laptop's data (Wired UK)

Glitter nail polish can protect your laptop's data (Wired UK): "If you're traveling overseas, across borders or anywhere you're afraid your laptop or other equipment might be tampered with or examined, you've got a new secret weapon to improve security. Glitter nail polish.

Don't laugh. It works.

Security researchers Eric Michaud and Ryan Lackey, making a presentation at the Chaos Communication Congress on Monday, highlighted the power of nail polish -- along with metallic paints and even crappy stickers -- to help people know when their machines have been physically tampered with and potentially compromised."

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5 Terrible Cellular Carrier Practices That Are Changing

5 Terrible Cellular Carrier Practices That Are Changing: "We’ve written about all the different ways cellular carriers are gouging you, from long, expensive contracts to $22,000 bills for roaming data. Believe it or not, some of these terrible practices are actually changing.

Some of these examples are from Canada. If you live in the US or elsewhere and are frustrated with your own cellular carriers, seeing what Canadian cellular carriers get away with will make you appreciate your own local carriers."

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NTFS or FAT32: Choosing the Best File System for an Internal SSD Data Partition

NTFS or FAT32: Choosing the Best File System for an Internal SSD Data Partition: "When it comes to taking care of your SSD and valuable data, would it be better to use NTFS or FAT32 for the file system on an internal data partition? Today’s post looks at the ‘pros and cons’ of choosing the best file system to use.

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites."

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How to Reset the Windows 8.x Start Screen to the Default Tiles

How to Reset the Windows 8.x Start Screen to the Default Tiles: "If you are using Windows 8.x for any amount of time, you will quickly get to the point where your Start Screen becomes a giant mess of nonsense tiles. Want to reset them to default? It’s easy!

Just open up the Desktop view, pull up an Explorer window, and then paste the following into the address bar:"

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