How to Use Multiple Monitors to Be More Productive
Many people swear by multiple monitors, whether they’re computer geeks or just people who need to be productive. Why use just one monitor when you can use two or more and see more at once?
The Best Retro Game Controllers for Your PC or Raspberry Pi Emulators
Nintendo is apparently allergic to money. After creating an instant and profitable hit with the NES Classic, the company decided to end production of the cheap little emulation machine just a few months after its introduction…
How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Always-On BitTorrent Box
It’s ideal to have a dedicated machine for your BitTorrent client, so you can seed 24/7. But it’s energy-intensive to leave a full rig powered up and online that often. Enter the Raspberry Pi.
What’s the Difference Between FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS?
Whether you’re formatting an internal drive, external drive, USB flash drive, or SD card, Windows gives you the choice of using three different file systems: NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT. The Format dialog in Windows doesn’t expla…
How to Choose the Right Gaming Mouse
A good mouse can make a big difference when playing your favorite games. Here’s what you need to know about grip styles, types of gaming mice, technical specs, and more, before purchasing a new gaming mouse….
How to Overclock Your Raspberry Pi (Without Voiding Your Warranty)
The Raspberry Pi is a capable little microcomputer, but sometimes it needs a little nudge to muster enough power for what you need. Let’s dust off an old Pi and overclock it to better handle newer and more demanding applicati…
How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Cheap Plex Player with RasPlex
If you’re looking for a robust little Plex client for your HDTV, RasPlex offers a polished experience with snappy playback that’s always on, stable, and easy to control.
How to Use a Raspberry Pi as a Networked Time Machine Drive For Your Mac
Why spend $300 on an AirPort Time Capsule when you can make one yourself with a Raspberry Pi and an external hard drive? It takes a little tweaking, but once it’s all set up, your Mac will back up automatically, without any e…
Everything You Need to Know About Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi
Now over four years old, the Raspberry Pi, a cheap credit-card sized computer, has taken the computing and DIY world by storm. Read on as we guide you through everything from buying to powering to running the tiny dynamo….
How to Add an Ethernet Connection to Your Laptop
Once upon a time, when laptops were a far bulkier affair, Ethernet ports were standard. Ever more slender laptop designs eschew the Ethernet port these days, but that doesn’t mean you have to go without — here’s how you can…
What Is a Solid State Drive (SSD), and Do I Need One?
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are the lighting fast counterpart to the traditional hard drive with moving parts. But are they a good match for you? Read on as we demystify SSDs.
How to Test Your Computer’s RAM for Problems
Is your PC crashing, freezing, or just unstable? There may be a problem with its RAM. To check, you can use a hidden system tool included with Windows 11, 10, and 7—or download and boot a more advanced tool….
Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Steam Machine with Moonlight
Valve’s Steam Machines aim to bring your Steam game library right into your living room (but at a rather steep premium). Today we’ll show you how to bring your Steam library (plus all your other computer games) to your living…
How to Prepare a Computer, Tablet, or Phone Before Selling It
So it’s the end of the road for your PC, tablet, or smartphone. Before letting go, be sure to follow this quick checklist to prepare your device for its new owner and ensure that person doesn’t get their hands on your data, t…
How to Clean the Dust Out of Your Laptop
If you’ve had your laptop for a year or two, it may be full of dust. Dust clogs fans, vents, and heat sinks, preventing your PC from cooling down properly. You can remove a good amount of this dust, even if you can’t open you…
How to Enjoy Dead Simple Raspberry Pi Setup with NOOBS
If you’re looking for the simplest way to get started with your new Raspberry Pi, look no further. The Raspberry Pi foundation’s New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS) makes it easier than ever to get up and running with the powerfu…
How to Run Low-Cost Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi for Block Building on the Cheap
We’ve shown you how to run your own blocktastic personal Minecraft server on a Windows/OSX box, but what if you crave something lighter weight, more energy efficient, and always ready for your friends? Read on as we turn a ti…
How to Add a Printer to Your Raspberry Pi (or Other Linux Computer)
Unlike a typical Windows machine, the little Raspberry Pi running Rasbian doesn’t exactly come with plug-‘n-play printer support. Read on as we show you how to add full-fledged print capabilities to your Pi unit….
How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Google Cloud Print Server
Google Cloud Print is a fantastic way to link your printers to the cloud and enjoy print-from-anywhere access, but there’s a catch. If you don’t have one of the recent Cloud-Print-Ready printers, you need to leave your comput…
How to Setup Wi-Fi On Your Raspberry Pi via the Command Line
You configured your headless Raspberry Pi just the way you want it, it’s settled in and running smoothly, but suddenly you want to move it away from its Ethernet tether with a Wi-Fi module. Skip hooking it back up to all the …
How (and Why) to Assign the .local Domain to Your Raspberry Pi
If you’re tired of looking up the IP addresses of devices you frequently access via remote login, SSH, and other means on your home network, you can save yourself a lot of time by assigning an easy to remember .local address …
How to Change Your Raspberry Pi (or Other Linux Device’s) Hostname
The default hostname for the Raspberry Pi is, creatively enough, “raspberrypi”. What if you want a different hostname or you want to avoid hostname conflicts on your local network? Read on as we show you how to quickly change…
How to Install NZBGet for Lightweight Usenet Downloading on Your Raspberry Pi
We recently showed you how to turn your Raspberry Pi into an always on Usenet machine centered around the feature-rich SABnzbd Usenet client. Now we’re back to show you how to use NZBGet, a more Spartan but also very lightwei…
How to Automate Your Always-On Raspberry Pi Download Box
We recently showed you how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a 24/7 low-power downloading machine. Now we’re back to show you how to make the system almost completely hands off with awesome automation tools….
How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Always-On Usenet Machine
We recently showed you how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a 24/7 BitTorrent box to save on your power bill and keep your tracker ratios golden. Now we’re back to show you how to add in Usenet access to round out the build as …
