You may remember a few days ago the Propellerhead Top Tip for prolonging the active lives of laptop batteries by maintaining at least 40 to 50% charge. In practice keeping tabs on a battery pack’s state of charge can…

This comes from Propellerhead’s Trivia Department, but it’s worth remembering, if Windows tell you off, or stops you doing something, without telling you why. There are a number of little-known restrictions on characters and names that you are allowed…

In case you are wondering what the strange spidery image on the left is, it’s Propellerhead, or at least that’s how it looks to Websites as Graphs. Simply type in the URL of a website and it converts it…

Thanks to some unfortunate manufacturing flaws laptop batteries have been in the news recently, however, for the most part these unsung heroes of portable computing lead rather dull and uneventful lives, until they start to wear out (or catch…

You may have noticed that larger screens and higher resolutions can make things harder to read. One of the more obvious problems is typing in web addresses in Internet Explorer; the text is so small that it’s easy to…

No doubt it will happen one day but we’ve been down the free energy route several times before, remember cold fusion and electricity generated by nuclear power that would be too cheap to meter? Anyway, this might be the one,…

One of the Windows Explorer’s many small and niggling annoyances is the way it displays the size of a file, but not the size of a folder, which is handy to know if you are looking for the programs…

There are plenty of websites that test the speed of your web connection but few of them look as good or are as easy to use as the one Propellerhead has been road-testing at Speedtest.net. The dashboard design is…

For the most part the title bar at the top of most Windows applications is just a waste of space, with just the name of the program on the left, the Minimise, Maximise and Close icons on the right…

Many years ago, when Propellerhead used to get his hands dirty making bits of televisions for Ferguson, two of the most useful analytical and diagnostic tools at his disposal were an oscilloscope and spectrum analyser. ‘Scopes and speccy analysers…