A quick keyboard shortcut puts you right into the Formula bar. You don't need the mouse at all!

Becoming proficient with the Cisco IOS means learning some essential commands. This quick reference describes 10 commands you'll need to rely on when handling various configuration and troubleshooting tasks.

The decision to flash your computer's BIOS should not be taken lightly. Here are 10 common mistakes you need to avoid.

The guitar that came in our Rock Band bundle suffered from the downward strum issue that many people have reported online. Either the strum bar on the guitar doesn’t recognize a downward strum at all or it will recognize each downward strum twice. Not the best situation to be in when playing a rhythm-based game. ...

Creating a PowerPoint presentation means juggling a lot of pieces — moving, formatting, and editing objects such as AutoShapes, pictures, text boxes, and the slides themselves. It’s not always immediately apparent how to select one of these items or how to navigate within it. Here are a few indispensable keyboard shortcuts that will quickly become ...

IBM has announced that it will begin shipping version 3.2 of its General Parallel File System (GPFS) software on October 5, 2007. GPFS enables high-end technical and high performance computing, and it is able to scale to multi-petabytes or thousands of nodes accessing a single file system.

VIA Technologies has announced a new addition to its Eden ultra-low voltage processor lineup at a press conference on August 16, 2007. According to the DIGITIMES, it will come toting the 21mm x 21mm nanoBGA2 packaging like other Eden models and utilizes the typical VIA V4 bus. Under the hood however, it will run at ...

According to various sources, Dell may introduce consumer PCs running both Windows and Linux together on the same hardware using virtualization. Says Dell Chief Technology Officer Kevin Kettler: Virtualization is very powerful. It’s an environment that would allow many different operating systems to coexist. You can interpret that however you would like. Subscribe to the ...

Gizmodo has a piece which alleges that a new multi-touch device (aka a multi-touch mouse) that extends the iPhone concept into desktop computers might be on the horizon. Extrapolating from a recently filed patent at the U.S. patent office, it seems to have a transparent shell with a light source that will illuminate it from the ...

I love it when I find a keyboard shortcut that eliminates menu choices. Office is full of them and I’m still discovering them. Just the other day I discovered a couple that have been available for eons, I just wasn’t aware of them. There are two shortcuts for applying line spacing. Typically, most of us ...

Intel has teamed up with Asustek Computer, the Taiwanese circuitboard maker, to mass market a $199 notebook computer. This competes squarely with the “XO” made by OLPC (One Laptop Per Child Foundation), which runs on Linux and uses an AMD processor. You can read more about the XO here. Subscribe to the Innovation Insider Newsletter ...

Further to my hardware roundup last week on Gb networking gear and falling prices of DRAM, it appears that the glut was caused by DRAM makers ramping up to meet the anticipated huge demand for DRAM that Vista was supposed to fuel, and which never did materialize. According to MarketWatch: Suppliers of DRAM chips “overforecasted ...

Call it passion, or call it an occupational addiction, but I have always kept a firm eye on the movements in the hardware arena. I have found that the IT field, despite being an industry where changes are constantly afoot, is still, on the most part, evolutionary in nature. Revolutionary leaps in technology, especially of ...

Hello, this is the déjà vu police, is anyone home at the VA? Yep, just when the FBI catches the two teens responsible for that massive scare over 20+ million VA records being out there ready and waiting for identity thieves, yet another set of records disappear. This time it involves 38,000 veterans’ personel records ...

What is it about electronic equipment that brings out our destructive nature? As these pictures show, some users think annihilating computers is just plain fun.