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For all of you Twitter-addicts out there, we now send our RSS feeds to Twitter under the username of TheCoffeeDesk. This is an automatic process via RSS To Twitter and will post all new headlines starting with this one directly to Twitter via a tweet from our account, along with a link to the headli
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Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are recently becoming popular storage mediums in laptops, and are praised for their speed and shock resistance. However, there has been some debate over whether or not SSDs are ready for the data center, and here we aim to provide a comprehensive list of advantages and disa
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We've all seen those lists of keyboard shortcuts and other not-surprising tips about Windows and its shell programs, but this is a list of even more obscure Windows features and easter-eggs that even the savviest users don't know about. Some of these are easter eggs within the Windows operating
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With all of the recent discussion about utilizing very low-power ARM chips as an alternative to IA-32/IA-64 as a choice CPU of the rising netbook scene, Microsoft's Windows family of operating systems is sure to find a tough time fitting in thanks in part to the long-standing Wintel relationship bet
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A common misconception about the Open Systems Interconnection model is that it contains only seven layers, named "Physical", "Data Link", "Network", "Transport", "Session", "Presentation" and "Application". This is inconsistent, however, as there exists an eighth layer above "Application" commonly t
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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Zombie bite"][/caption]A New Orleans resident, Joseph Lancellotti, recently reported an attack on his person by a man whom he describes was "unintelligibly shouting", and knocked Lancellotti in the head before taking a bite out of his arm. Joseph
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Google's Suggest feature was taken out of beta testing and added to the world-renown search engine giant's front page not more than a year ago, and has proven to be a very useful tool in finding similar search queries as you type them. But the new tool has also become a target of criticism for it's
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Keeping with the spirit of lame April fool's jokes today posted by other news sites like Slashdot and Digg, we thought we'd get in on the stupid blatantly-fake headline tirade as well: "Conficker worm causes thecoffeedesk.com servers to explo" "Microsoft acquired by the Free Software Foundation"
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