Tech-Talk: Interview with Ed Bott

I am happy to bring to you the very first interview at Windows Geek Blog. And we are honored to have none other than the award winning author Ed Bott as our first guest. Ed Bott as you all know is one of the most recognized voices in the computing world. Ed has won twice, the Computer Press Award for his work on PC Computing's groundbreaking "Windows SuperGuide". He is also a three-time winner of the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award.  Me: You ar...

According to the latest news from  Mac Rumors, Apple has discontinued its I’m a Mac advertising campaign. The new campaign is called Why you'll love your Mac and focuses on the strengths of Mac rather than the weakness of PCs unlike its previous strategy. Well I believe that this is a welcome move simply because the previous strategy sucked big time. It was successful but it sucked. Reason – bashing on other’s weakness ( real or imaginativ...

Have you been hearing a lot about an Internet thingy called twitter? Do you want to try your hands on it but don't know where to start ? Then this article is definitely for you. In a single sentence, twitter is a microblogging site were you can post short messages that cannot exceed 140 letters. These are called "tweets". To get updates (or tweets) from a person you have to "follow" that person. People whom you follow might or might not follow ...

Here are a few old ways to shut down/restart your computer, the geek way! Windows XP: Press windows key and then press "U" twice to shutdown Press Windows key then U and R to restart Press Windows key and L twice to logoff Windows Vista/Windows 7 Press Windows key and then press "Right arrow" thrice and U to shut down Press Windows key and then press right arrow thrice and R to restart Press Windows key then press right arrow thrice and...

For a blogger themes are very important. They define the look and feel of your blog and have a great impact on your visitors. A good theme should be less cluttered, easy to navigate and should feel  fresh. Here is a list of some of the best themes that I have came across. 1) Touchriver Demo | Download 2) Scruffy Demo| Download (more...)...

Today I am going to write about a few wordpress plugins that every serious blogger should have. Even though wordpress is a very good blogging software, it can be made much better with the use of these plugins. So here it goes :- 1 ) All in one SEO pack - There is no doubt that SEO is very important for a blogger. This plugin allows the admin to tweak your wordpress installation and posts such that it ranks higher in search engines. It is a mus...

Recently I had a chance of reading an article that said that Windows 7 was susceptible to almost 80% of viruses out there. This made me think about ways in which we can protect the operating system and eventually lead to writing this article. According to me the best weapon we have against the attacks of these unwanted programs is common sense. As long as we use it the right way along with the right software we can stay safe. So here are a few s...

Even after the release of windows 7 there might be a few that still use vista. This is for them 1) Turn off unwanted animations. To do this click start menu. In the search box type “sysdm.cpl”( without quotes) and click continue when prompted by UAC. Click the advanced tab and under performance click settings. In the visual effects tab uncheck the options that are unnecessary. (more...)...

Dual booting is not a very hard task. But it requires a bit of prerequisite knowledge and if not done with care can lead to disaster. This guide assumes that you already have windows vista installed. 1. Boot with Windows Xp cd and wait till it loads necessary files. 2. Then select the volume in which you want to install Xp (choose a different drive than the one with vista installed. If you don’t have two volumes you can use vista’s built in d...