If we ask most people which they consider the first computer game in history, their answers might be Space Invaders, Pong, or even "Spacewar!". These, however, are early video games. The first computer game was invented in 1912, two years before the first World War, by an inventor you might
So, we created a Windows USB/DVD or prepared an installation medium for Linux. The next step to install or reinstall the operating system is selecting this medium to boot our PC. For some motherboards, this will be straightforward. For others, it might be a bit complicated. Here's how to change the
It can happen to anyone: we have an old Windows PC we haven't used for a while, and we can't remember the administrator password. However, not all is lost, and we have more options than formatting the hard drive and reinstalling the OS. Gaining Administrator access in Windows is easy, and we
Linux has thousands of games on Steam. There are, however, tens of thousands of Windows games that will never get a Linux port. Fortunately, if you are an EA Origin member, you can install Origin on Linux Mint or Ubuntu using Wine, and enjoy some of EA's Windows Games on
Up until Windows 8, software RAID in Windows was a mess. Windows 7 has arbitrary restrictions on the available RAID levels, and it was impossible to create a Level 5 RAID without Windows Server. Fortunately, it is easy to build a software RAID 5 in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. We
GIMP is an excellent raster graphics editor. Open source and available for free, it's a great alternative to an expensive Photoshop license or a Creative Cloud subscription. Experienced Adobe users, however, might have some trouble getting used to the GIMP interface and keyboard shortcuts. Let's make GIMP look and work
If you run a Linux distribution, and you are only using the GUI, you are missing out. The Linux terminal is an extremely powerful tool that goes well beyond the GUI. Writing commands might seem scary for a beginner, but you will soon get the hang of it. In this
For many of us, torrent files and the BitTorrent protocol are synonyms with movie and software piracy. However, we can download movies for free, and stay 100% legal. We only need to choose our movies carefully. Let's see how to download movies for free with torrent files, and how can we
GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default bootloader for Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and a host of Linux Distributions. When we are dual-booting with Windows, Linux sets itself as the default boot choice. If we prefer Windows to be the default, though, or even some other Linux distribution or operating system, it's
When we purchase a Windows license, what we actually buy is the unique 25-digit Windows product key. This product key is essential if we need to reinstall Windows or transfer and activate Windows to another PC. Let's see all the different ways about how to find the Windows product key in