Gadgets & Technology

Win XP Pro

Got Windows XP? Is it painfully slow at downloading any file or website? There’s actually a little-known solution to this problem which even a beginner can use. This tutorial will show you how to boost XP download speed and make your Internet seem to run a lot faster.

Unfortunately for the millions of people who still use Windows XP, there’s a small problem inside this system which continually limits the download speed of your PC. This problem is an issue which affects all Windows XP machines, and is where it has a setting inside the system which limits the speed of the downloads to your PC. Read more…

Yahtzee

The game of Yahtzee hasn’t always been as popular as it is today, the games current owners claim that they sell up to 50 million Yahtzee dice games every year, but these sales haven’t always been the case. Yahtzee, first filed in 1956 for a trademark, struggled in its early years to set any gaming fans pulses racing, that was until the idea of having Yahtzee dice game parties in homes was introduced with the idea of spreading the word about Yahtzee by means of word of mouth, this had a very positive effect and helped immensely in making Yahtzee a very popular household dice game.So what are the basics of Yahtzee? Read more…

Nintendo Wii

At this moment, the video game console wars involve the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, and Sony’s PlayStation 3. Each console has its fan base who claims that their console is the best one and that the others pale in comparison. They give technological specs, dates and numbers, and all sorts of things that supposedly make their consoles the winner of the war.

To me, a video game console is not about its specs, but about how much fun it is, and one of the ways to know how fun it is is to see how it has sold over time. While sales can fluctuate and be deceiving when a new console is launched, over time, word of mouth and performance give a better idea of how a console is doing, specially if its main competitors have also been out for a few years. Read more…