The Computer Guy

How to Create a Custom Windows Installation DVD or USB Install

The Computer Guy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:02:17 +0000

When you need to reinstall Windows, you shouldn’t have to spend an entire day installing years of updates, drivers, and necessary software along with it. Here’s how to create a Windows installation disc (or USB stick) that’s up to date, customized, auto-installing, and far less time-sucking than your original.

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Piers Morgan vs Rio Ferdinand: The Twitter catfight

The Computer Guy — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:04:37 +0000

via: Memeburn

The media loves celebrities. The media really loves celebrities feuding. The media really, really, loves a feuding celebrity being told off. Add all of that together and you’ve got the perfect ‘news’ story.

Esteemed and trusted media house, The Guardian, with much apparent glee late last night (UK time) ran a [...]

How (and Why) to Set Up a Secondary Browser Optimized for Slow Internet Connections

The Computer Guy — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:44:34 +0000

via: lifehacker

Whitson Gordon — No matter how fast your home network may be, we all get stuck using slow, unreliable Wi-Fi or tethered connections once in a while. Instead of tweaking your browser every time, set up [...]

Biz Stone On Conan: Twitter, No Longer The ‘Seinfeld’ Of The Internet

The Computer Guy — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:27:31 +0000

Via: Techcrunch

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone visited the CONAN show last night to celebrate the service’s much balyhooed fifth birthday. Conan O’Brien, who found great success on Twitter himself as @conanobrien, began the conversation by referring to the site’s early days, reminding Stone that the now-lauded company was once [...]

Google Plays To Its Strengths, Succeeds Brilliantly, With Lady Gaga Interview

The Computer Guy — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:18:18 +0000

Via: techcrunch

As the battle for Silicon Valley engineering talent intensifies, it seems as if hot tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter have launched some sort of ridiculous competition as to who could can score the biggest Hollywood talent for an onsite appearance, in order to wow current and [...]

U2 brings the concert online via Facebook and Twitter

The Computer Guy — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:06:02 +0000

via: Memeburn

By Michelle Atagana:

A U2 concert is said to be one the most spectacular and memorable entertainment events on the planet. For fans who want to relive the memories over and over, there is a whole new way to keep [...]

Coup d’Tweet: Can social media overthrow a government?

The Computer Guy — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:11:57 +0000

Source: Memeburn

by: Uzair Parker

As the anti-government protests continue to grip Egypt and the call for an end to President Hosni Mubarak‘s 30 year regime gets louder, the rest of the world watched in amazement as the government’s security forces systematically [...]

Memorable tweets of 2010: BP, Aussies, WikiLeaks, Palin, Vuvuzela, Pigspotter

The Computer Guy — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:03:24 +0000

Source: Memeburn

The World Cup, the BP Gulf oil spill, Wikileaks, the launch of the iPad, Chilean miners… 2010 was a year with plenty of opportunities for online witticisms and criticisms. The 140-character-enforced brevity of Twitter means that it often distilled a current topic down to its essence. The phrase, [...]

Your guide to Firefox 4 and its shiny new features

The Computer Guy — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:25:48 +0000

Source: www.downloadsquad.com

Firefox 4, with the release of Beta 7, is as good as finished. From now until its release in early 2011, no new features will be added, no significant changes will be made — Beta 7 is, for all intents and purposes, Firefox 4.

Unlike Firefox 3.5 (private browsing) and 3.6 [...]

Google-branded netbook coming in November?

The Computer Guy — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:56:17 +0000

Source: http://www.techsmart.co.za

Publish date: 02 November 2010 by Hanleigh Daniels

Google’s highly anticipated browser-based Chrome operating system (OS) might be unveiled during this month. According to DigiTimes Systems, global brand vendors are expected to launch [...]