The Quest for the Ultimate Desktop
February 24th, 2009

I’m on a quest for a mythical object; an aesthetically pleasing desktop that is not too distracting and lets me keep track of my tasks. This is the result of my search so far.

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Filed under: Pimp my PC, Web, Windows — Kwame @ 9:08 pm
Samurize: The Way of the Desktop Warrior
July 30th, 2008

If you are a member of that special group of computer users, the tinkerers, you are going to wonder where Samurize has been all your life. I’d seen it mentioned a few times on Lifehacker but never really paid attention. Well, my mistake. “What is Samurize?”, you ask. Well, Samurize is “an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista”. Translation: lots of stats and very cool ways to play with and display them. (more…)

Filed under: Pimp my PC, Reviews, Windows — Kwame @ 3:29 pm
Windows 98 Boot Disks and Linux
December 18th, 2007

If you’ve ever had to reinstall Windows on a computer, be it yours or someone else’s, you probably know that boot disks can be rather useful things to have around. The best kind are the Windows 98 boot disks (IMHO); they fit onto one floppy and give you access to the cdrom even if the computer’s BIOS doesn’t support booting from cdrom.

So what do you do when you need to reinstall Windows and the computer your’re working is a tiny laptop with no floppy, no cdrom and a serious malware overdose? (more…)

Filed under: Linux, Tutorials, Windows — Tags: , , — Kwame @ 12:16 am