Before I bought a Mac laptop a year ago, I was always a hardcore PC user.

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Change Application Icons in Mac OS X

Updating our computer software has become a fairly automated process. We are notified about updates though built-in notification systems as soon as an update drops. But for the rest of our electronics, updates are harder to track.

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Track Updates for Cell Phones, Game Consoles, MP3 Players and Other Gadgets

After more than a decade of continuously using and upgrading cell phones, laptops and MP3 players, the amount of old electronics shoved in closets and under beds is astounding. We never know quite what to do with a former beloved, but now replaced, device. A site called EcoSquid has solutions for this problem.

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Recycle Old Electronics

Aside from malware and virus security, the most sought-after computer safety tool is privacy protection. However, most free privacy sweepers don’t have a comprehensive clear-out effect. They still leave traces of threats, such as the data found in the index.dat user profile file

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Protect your Online and Offline Privacy with Privacy Mantra

In the past, rootkits have been an essential component to a computer. Its main function and the primary reason why it was created was for advanced PC users to have administrator access to a certain computer without having to login the usual way. In short, a rootkit enables administrators to login without being noticed

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Scan and Remove Rootkits with RootkitBuster