Archive for the 'General' Category

Free news not so free after all

In a recent development, newspaper and other online publishers can now set the number of free articles which people can access through Google and keep the rest as subscriber-based only under a newly implemented program by Google, starting last year.

Super cheap cars of the future – The single seat VW

I have a thing for budget cars of the future, and although this piece of news is a bit old, I bet not many have heard of it. Take a peek at the new single seat Volkswagen (VW). This car is planned for the China market, and as far as I know, this will be [...]

Spotlight on net neutrality and privacy

Did anyone read the latest interview with Eugene Kaspersky, creator of the world famous Kaspersky antivirus software? I just read it, and in the interview Kaspersky mentions that the root cause for all security problems is – Internet anonymity. For those of you who haven’t read it, the interview is here.

Baseline performance monitoring for new PCs

If you are a regular PC user, you probably notice your computer performance declining after a few weeks (or months) of regular use. If you gotten yourself a new machine and you like tinkering with Windows and want to get a baseline of its performance, you can do a simple baseline performance monitor to see [...]

Ati2dvag problem update

I decided to republish a very long but detailed comment from an Ati user, Casondra, on May 5, 2009, regarding the Ati2dvag problem that I used to face – which resulted in me trashing my previous computer completely. I wrote to Casondra much earlier asking her if she would mind me republishing her comment in [...]

Wolfenstein 3D – A great DOS game

I am a fan of DOS games, and I used to play this game a lot, many years ago – Wolfenstein 3D. So recently, when I looked it up, I was pleasantly surprised to see the game still alive and kicking on its 17th birthday, and it has even been ported onto so many platforms [...]