Remembering information from day to day can be a strain on even the smartest.  From your license plate number to the song you heard on the radio a moment ago, we’re constantly struggling to remember and recall information.  Evernote is a very useful free tool to help your, in their words, Remember Everything.  Although there are many apps and services today designed to help you store and keep up with notes, Evernote has recently won...

I haven’t added my recent articles to Techinch lately, so here’s a whole load of them.  I’m trying to figure out a better way to share links; I would like to do Tumblr-style link posts, and need to see if I can hack that into my theme.  Anyhow, for now, here’s everything I’ve written since my last How-to Geek update: Customize the Default Screensavers in Windows 7 and Vista Complete Guide to Symbolic Links (symlinks) on...

Are you just getting started with desktop virtualization?  Let’s look at the new book VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner’s Guide, which is a book that may be a great help getting started with desktop virtualization quickly and easily. Computers today can be very complicated machines.  Even though popular mobile devices are being pointed out as the future in easy computing, there are still many reasons you’ll want to use a full PC for the...

Foxit Reader is one of the most popular alternates to Adobe Reader, and users around the world have chosen to use it as their default PDF reader on Windows, Linux, and a variety of mobile devices.  Today the latest version, Foxit Reader 4.0, is being released, so here’s our look at the new features. Foxit Reader has always been a great PDF reader, since it’s lightweight (using under 10Mb of ram when running without a PDF open), fast,...

The latest and greatest version of WordPress, the software that powers Techinch and many other blogs and websites around the ‘net, was just released.  WordPress 3.0 brings some major new features and style to the platform, and I’m excited to say that Techinch.com was updated to the final release version only minutes after it was released.  The upgrade went smoothly, and only took a couple minutes.  If you’d like to...