PC Tonic

Google Chrome is a web browser. And apparently a music player too.

Do the high-definition (720p and 1080p) movies stutter and lag while playing on your laptop? A simple tweak in the power options could fix this!

The Digsby installer might be very eager to install toolbars and change your home pages, but can be easily put to size by Ninite.

Did upgrading from Vista to 7 create hardware problems on your PC? Fixing them is easier than you think!

We’ve previously covered ad-blocking tools for all the major browsers :

IE7Pro for Internet Explorer
AdBlock Plus for Firefox
AdSweep for Chrome, Opera, and Safari

All these tools work great, but if you’re an Opera user you can actually block ads using the browser’s built in features! Let’s see how :

Overheating is a serious problem that can greatly reduce the average life span of any laptop. The most common cause of overheating is the improper position of air vents, which doesn’t allow the hot air inside the machine to escape completely. I’m no stranger to this, as my HP Pavilion dv5 has got it’s air [...]

A majority of the ISPs in India offer “unlimited” night-time download packages at very cheap prices, which means downloading anything in these free night-hours won’t count in your monthly download cap. With these packages, downloading large files is obviously possible only during the free hours. The problem (craftily created by the ISPs) is that [...]

If you bookmark a lot of websites, it’s always a good idea to have them backed them up somewhere. The best backup place, of course, is the Internet where all your bookmarks stay safe from any possible hardware failures that may cripple your PC (let’s hope not!). In this post, we shall see how to [...]

Three years ago, I would have run out of ideas on what to store on a 80 gig drive. Today, I’m practically running out of space on my 250 gig hard-drive. Internet is growing fast, and so are the number of stuff you simply can’t stay without downloading off it. Getting cheap external storage drives [...]

Ubuntu is easily the most popular Linux distro of today, and one of the main reasons that has propelled it above other distros is that you can order a CD of Ubuntu from Canonical, completely for free. Yes, you read it right – an attractive looking Ubuntu CD at absolutely NO cost! If you [...]