Help, my children are addicted to WoW! As a former ‘wow addict’ myself, let me explain why your kids sit in front of the computer all day long. Understanding the motives of the obsessive MMORPG player may help you realise it’s not necessarily the game that causes the problem. It’s not even the computer or the Internet itself, but something completely different, and you can fix it. World of Warcraft…

Blizzard’s blockbuster, World of Warcraft has been online since 2004 and it sports an active user base of well over 10 million. Almost seven years into existence, it still revolves around the same principles it set out to follow; it provides new and fun things to do with your buddies, exciting quests, you can slay big monsters and get better equipment. It’s been a continuous source of fun and a…

Quite honestly, I don’t care whose fault the current state of Flash is and neither should you. For those who don’t know about it, flash based content works on Macs and OS X, but barely. It gives nowhere near the stability and performance you’d see on any Windows PC. When an otherwise perfectly fine Macbook goes beachball, more often than not the cause is Flash. As a customer, I don’t…

On Intel Based Macs, you have the option to install Windows natively, which means it will run without an emulator of any sort. The Boot Camp Assistant found on the OS X Install disc will take you through the necessary steps and ensures you don’t encounter any problems during the process. Explanation Apple went out of their way to give you an easy and hassle-free way of putting Windows on…

Your iPad is a wonderful thing. Magical even. That’s a phrase people who don’t have the first clue about what it is good for often use. It’s easier to mask the whole subject with a mystical explanation stating you can do whatever you want to. In fact, I’ve found that to be untrue. This is the first piece of a series of posts that will offer some guidance to show…

Windows XP has been around for 11 years. It’s been ingrained in our lives. If you look around, you see it being used by businesses and home users alike. It seems to be unkillable for some reasons. When Windows Vista hit the market it didn’t have half as big of an impact as Microsoft had anticipated and that’s because it was horrible. It was big and sluggish and full of…

Generally speaking, stronger hardware gives you a better chance at becoming a better player by providing better circumstances. A stronger video card will get you higher frame rate, which gives you more information you can use to score a frag before anyone else does. A stronger processor will reduce the number of ‘hiccups’ or frame drops and more memory gives faster loading times. Better mice makes you able to aim…

As much as I love mini notebook computers, they’re limited by their hardware setup. You’d have no trouble playing some of the simpler flash games, run the browser and the e-mail client without a hitch, but I highly doubt that a normal (read :n270 atom, intel GMA 950, 1GB ram) netbook will be able to run WoW. I had quite some time on my hands when I was still using…