This guest article was written by Nate from The Geeky Life blog, who is also one of our most prolific forum members. Thanks! Have you ever watched a video on Youtube or some other site that lets you view flash videos and then wanted to save a copy of the video to your hard drive so that you can watch it later,out but you then cannot because there is no download...

Have you ever wondered why you can pin applications to the start menu, but you can’t pin folders? There’s a number of articles around that tell you how to pin them using complicated registry hacks, but there’s actually a very simple way to do it. This technique comes to us from How-To Geek Forums member whs, who is not only a prolific poster...

Does your download folder constantly get cluttered with old files that you don’t even remember downloading? Sure, you can always just delete the contents of the folder and start over, but a better way is to teach your computer how to clean it for you. For this task we’ll use a small freeware called Belvedere that can move or delete files based on...

How often have you opened an Open dialog and wished you could just quickly paste in the path of the file you are already looking at in Windows Explorer? Well… now you can, in Windows Vista. All you have to do is hold down the shift key, and right-click the file: Choose the Copy as Path from the menu. Here’s an example of what’s on the...

In these days of high definition videos everywhere (even YouTube), only the truly geeky would decide to watch their movies in ASCII text in a terminal window. The surprising thing is that some videos are even fairly watchable.   I’ve found that cartoons work best because of the limited detail. Even more importantly, the series finale and (probably)...