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If you are a long-time Wired subscriber, this is going to be hard for you to read — literally.

For the graying set that thinks these glasses are more Thomas Dolby than Harry Potter, reading anything is more difficult, because of presbyopia, the gradual inability of the eye to focus due to age. Even if you never wore glasses before, all of a sudden — or around age 45 — you are unable to clearly see the text on your computer screen, your iPad, Viagra prescription bottles or your Hoveround’s speedometer.

Until recently, this meant adding reading glasses or switching … [Read More...]

Overview

Wondershare’s Video to iPod converter is a good video converter, with many useful tools and is straightforward in its use.

Installation

The install is very typical of OS X installs, with the .dmg having a shortcut to drag and drop the program for installation

On its first boot, you will be brought to the website for the user guide. You will also be asked to input your serial number if you have purchase the product. If you have not you may do so from this screen.

Features & Use

Video to iPod has some cool features. With the Trim … [Read More...]

If you’ve got one of the newer Kindle devices, you’ve got the ability to read PDF files built right in—very convenient, but how does it work? Let’s take a quick look at how to get them on the Kindle.

Note: this isn’t exactly rocket science, and the majority of Kindle owners probably already know how to do this, but we figured we’d cover how to do it anyway just in case you’re considering buying a Kindle.

Reading PDF Files on Your Kindle

The first thing you’ll want to do is connect the Kindle to your PC with the USB cable, … [Read More...]

Do you leave your Mac unattended when you’re not using it? Rather than leave your Mac exposed so that anybody has access to it, you can lock your Mac’s display whenever you’re away from it. Here’s how.

Power users probably already know how to do this, but it’s not easily apparent for the average user, so today we’ll show you a couple of methods to secure your Mac OS X computer.

Using Keychain Access

The easiest way to accomplish this is to use the menubar shortcut from Keychain Access, which will give you a menubar icon that will let you … [Read More...]

If you’ve ever had problems with your PC starting up or shutting down slowly, there’s lots of different troubleshooting techniques that you can use—today we’ll talk about how to enable verbose messages.

Enabling these verbose messages is not going to magically solve your problems, of course—the point is to use this to identify a problem, which you can then solve through other means, generally by uninstalling a problem application or upgrading a faulty driver.

Enable Verbose Boot Logging for Drivers and Such

Open up msconfig.exe through the Start Menu search or run box, and then head over to the Boot … [Read More...]

Remember the days when scanning a document required a big, ugly, space wasting device connected to your computer? Today we take a look at a free app that will turn our iPhone or iPod Touch (with camera) into a convenient document scanner.

Even if you have a modern scanner connected to your PC, it can be a cumbersome process to scan a document. You have to be at its location at home or work, and then scan each document. Even some of the portable scanners that you hook up to your laptop can be a bit to much when traveling. … [Read More...]

Not too long ago we encountered some problem with our users that share PC’s in different locations on our network. Some users do not always log-off their PC’s when they have to go into the plant. Now from where they are on the network, they remote desktop into another workstation for a particular system developed in-house.

Now if a user does not log-off, this remote desktop connection stays logged-in and makes it so no-one else can use that PC. Therefore, I was tasked with finding a way to log a user off if there is no activity for a certain … [Read More...]

Bored of the staid, old login background that greets you every time you log into your Mac? Here’s how to customize the wallpaper image to anything you want with just a couple of quick steps.

We’ll start off by showing you how to manually change the background image, and then how to use a simple application to change the image.

Changing the Background Manually

Open a Finder window and hit Command-Shift-G. Enter “/System/Library/CoreServices” in the text box that shows up and click “Go”:

That will take you to the CoreServices folder. Like its name implies, this folder contains important system … [Read More...]