If you are a Trekkie, or simply curious, you must have a chat with Fake Kirk. This Captain Kirk look-alike bot will try to carry on a conversation with you. You will be amazed or disappointed, but you won’t come away without an opinion.

There are dozens of controls and utilities in Vista and Windows 7. What if you don’t know the name of the app or control you are looking for? What if you don’t know it exists? A new utility called the Windows Access Panel could be just what you need.

Do you want stuff added to your PC without explanations? It doesn’t matter if you want it or not. Microsoft does this all the time. Firefox is now blocking Addons from Microsoft Windows Update. Here’s why:

You’ve seen many names for different types of software. Some of the types are obvious just by looking at the name. Most of you probably know what Adware is, but do you know what Crippleware is?

CNET, the owner of Download.com, offers a program called TechTracker. It scans your PC and shows you the software that is out of date. Then you can decide which updates you need. It even offers links to the newer versions of your out-dated software.

Ten years ago, Ad-Aware was one of the first effective defenses against many forms of adware and spyware. Since that time, it’s been improving and adding features such as Rootkit removal and more.

A free portable app named IZArc2Go is all you need to handle many different archive file types, such as 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BZ2, BZA, CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MIM, PAK, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, and ZOO.

A portion of an unmanned space craft called LCROSS will slam into Cabeus, an eternally dark crater on Luna. It’s been reported that many of the war mongering Earthlings are hoping for a spectacular plume of dust to be ejected from Luna (the Moon).

This portable freeware application can uninstall a program faster than you can open Windows Add/Remove applet. It also has unique features that Microsoft probably didn’t want you to have. Read on and I’ll tell you how to set up and use KUninstall.

When you are working with files and folders in Windows 7 or Windows Vista, one of the most useful features that you can enable is “Use check boxes to select items”. Here is a short tutorial explaing how to enable this feature in Windows Explorer’s folder options.

You want to turn off a feature that Microsoft believes will keep you safer? Are you simply aggravated by constant pop-ups? I feel that there is no need for the new UAC in Vista and Win7. I’ll explain why and I’ll also tell you how to easily disable UAC in Windows 7.

While using Windows 7, you may want to add a new user account or delete one. You can do this easily by following the tutorial I’ve written here.

If you are a webmaster or post files to FTP servers often, you may enjoy being able to right click on files in Windows and quickly send them to your FTP sites. This article explains how you can do this without installing any new software.

Nocs is a free Notepad like program that lets you upload text files to your Google Docs account. It provides you yet another way to quickly save your data online where you can access it from anywhere.

Most of you are familiar with icons since you see them every time you use a PC. However, you may have a few questions about them. I’ll tell you about ICO files and how to get started opening, editing, and collecting icons and managing icon libraries.