Become Happy software purports to make users happier. Here’s their explanation.
Become Happy slightly changes look and feel of your desktop, of all windows opened and all the music and sound playing, affecting your endorphin-hormone (the natural body’s painkiller) release. This leads to mood elevation, better health, and, finally, to becoming more happy. This software [...]

Klipfolio is the latest player in the desktop widget arena. Other widget engines for Windows include Yahoo Widgets, Vista sidebar (if you have Vista) and Google Desktop Widgets.
One of the main reasons I like Klipfolio is because it has simple, lightweight widgets to monitor the memory and CPU usage. Yahoo Widgets have CPU [...]

You’re on the phone with a friend of family member explaining how to use a piece of software. Frustrated, you think about how much easier it would be if they could look over your shoulder and see how to do it.
Remote access solutions like NetMeeting, Remote Desktop and VNC work, but they require firewall [...]

I’ve had no trouble finding processor, memory and network monitoring tools on Windows. Process Explorer from SysInternals does a great job of showing processor and memory use (overall and for each process) and NetStat Live displays incoming and outgoing network traffic. The only thing missing was an easy way to see what processes [...]

FileHippo has a large collection of useful software. I often check there when looking for software to perform a certain task. However, as we use more software it’s harder to keep everything up to date. Some applications, like Firefox, keep themselves up to date by letting you know there’s an upgrade available. [...]

PC Mag put together a list of the top 100 undiscovered sites and I’m surprised by how many genuinely useful sites there are that I’ve never heard about. Of course there are plenty of sites that could be a waste of time, but that’s the great thing about the internet - there’s something for [...]

A site called The Purification has created quite a bit of theories, but no answers (yet).
Someone posted a question asking what it was all about on Ask Metafilter two days ago and it’s amazing to see what they’ve been able to learn so far.
I’m guessing they’ll have a satisfactory answer within a few days.
(via waxy [...]

Every once in a while the tooltips start showing up behind the taskbar so they can’t be seen. This is very annoying.
I found a fix that worked, but I’m surprised and a little dismayed that it fixes the problem. It’s like telling someone with a headache to jump around clucking like a chicken, [...]

IRC isn’t as popular nowadays, but every once in a while I have a reason to use it. I’ve used xChat on Linux but on Windows I didn’t know of a free IRC client. I Googled around but found only commercial applications.
Then I found one right under my nose. Literally.
I was [...]

Many people want to know how fast their internet connection is. I’m here to help. Here are the best sites I know of with screenshots of the results and my commentary on each one.

Speedtest.net - Flash interface. You pick the server to use. Tests up and down. Very accurate. [...]

I had a Windows XP machine at home that would restart at random, often overnight when no one was around to see any errors (if there were any). It was becoming quite annoying, although if it hadn’t been for the SessionSaver firefox extension it would have been a lot worse.
These are the steps I [...]