Technical Tips & Tricks

Google Chrome goes 64-bit, improves Windows font rendering Google has been working on a 64-bit version of the Chrome browser for some time now, and with the release of Chrome 37 today, a stable build of the 64-bit browser has been released into the wild. For those of you on a compatible 64-bit system, the 64-bit version will offer performance improvements as well as security and stability enhancements. Through the use of a more modern instruction...

Running Linux From a USB Drive As a Virtual Machine or Bootable Disk Live Linux environments work just like a typical operating system but run entirely from a CD or USB stick -- the latter being the most common choice these days. Since nothing is written to the host computer’s local storage, when you’re done all you need to do is remove the media, reboot, and everything will be exactly as it was. There are a number of uses to this, from simply...