Way to go Piriform!  I haven’t seen a defragger that made me this happy since MS-DOS 6.22.  I could continue to gush about this, but really, the proof is in the pudding. Simple Recipe for Better Performance: Download Defraggler now, and run it. Let it get finished, reboot, and run it again. Now, just tell me your computer doesn’t feel...

Originally published at www.linux.com on December 09, 2008 at 09:00 AM; reprinted with the author’s permission. Digital video recorders (DVR) are becoming more and more mainstream. TiVo, in fact, has passed the truest test of any popular technology — having its name transformed into a verb. MythTV, a free and open source application that lets...

Originally published at www.linux.com on December 09, 2008 at 09:00 AM; reprinted with the author’s permission. Corporations and home users alike need firewall protection. Many choices abound, including some expensive, commercial options that only run on specialized hardware. Others, like SmoothWall Express, are freely downloadable, built on the same...

Well, if you haven’t been paying attention, apparently Windows will slow down after some time in use…or so they say.  Mine doesn’t.  Mainly because I’m careful about spyware (not such a problem anymore since Google Chrome and Firefox), but also because I use utilities like this. So if you want your machine to stop dogging out....