personal computing

The internet has grown to become a centerpiece for our modern workflow. Of course, there are instances where working offline is ideal and makes more sense but for the most part, the internet has taken over. This incredible tool has found its way into many... Read More

You have been saving up diligently for your next gaming rig and now the time has come to go shopping. Little do you discover you were oblivious to what route to take between a gaming laptop and a gaming desktop. You start weighing them against... Read More

Before we get to what a Cloud DVR is, let me take you back to about two decades ago. The early 2000s was a time when every trip to the restroom was planned for during commercial breaks of your favorite TV show. I recall watching... Read More

One of the most notable features that came with Windows 11 is the ability to run android applications on the desktop officially. Initially, we used to do this through unofficial third-party emulators. This feature was first tested under the Windows Insider builds for months but... Read More

You may have been wondering why your 500GB hard drive is showing as 460GB on Windows. Where does the remaining 40GB disappear to? Imagine buying a 2TB hard drive and finding out you can only use 1.8TB! Why are you losing an entire 200GB without... Read More

Cloud storage can be thought of as a hard drive on the internet that you can access from anywhere via the internet. It is a relatively convenient way of storing and sharing files, especially files that you do not want to lose. The basic idea... Read More

When considering what type of network storage system to implement, it can easily turn into quite a complicated endeavor for the average Joe. This is because you need to find a perfect balance between scalability, capacity, cost, reliability, and performance. There exist three primary options... Read More

Ethernet over Powerlines (EoP), also called Powerline Networking and Power Over Ethernet (PoE) are two quite confusing technologies. Even though they sound quite similar, each does the opposite of what the other does. In this post, we will be clarifying how each of them works... Read More

Networking is the backbone of the internet that we are so dependent on every single day. Actually, the Internet is a big network of very many interconnected networks. And all networks depend on the devices connected to them; laptops, desktops, phones, printers, etc. A network... Read More