This tech-recipe will explain how to setup Parental Controls on the Nintendo 3DS.  These controls can allow a parent to limit the rating of games that can be played and limit play times.

For people who don’t buy a game through Steam, they miss out on all the cool features Steam gives. Using shift-tab to pull up your friends list, communicate, join games, and so forth is awesome but only available through Steam. Luckily the folks at Steam make it super easy to add a non-Steam game to your Steam library to give you those features.

My daughter recently received a digital camera. One of her first questions to me was asking why the zoom buttons were labelled with the letters W and T. Once you know, you will remember it forever.

Most modern games have the ability to change the anti-alias settings. However, lots of us have no idea what the anti-alias settings actually do. What is FSAA? Do you need 2x, 4x, 8x, or more? Learn why you may be able to safely lower this setting an increase your frame rate. End your world of [...]

Displaying your frames per second in Dragon Age helps to optimize your video settings. These directions describe how to display fps in Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age II.

The Dragon Age series has been a real joy to the mac gaming community. Tweaking the anti-alias, resolution, v-sync, and detail settings can radically change your FPS. Hopefully, these benchmarks will help users tweak their DA2 settings to obtain the perfect balance between visual candy and performance.

You can export a QR Code image of your Mii that can be used to import your Mii on any other 3DS.   Just by taking a picture of this exported QR Code image, your Mii will be imported onto another device!

Nintendo has still not moved towards using a name or avatar based online system yet. Thankfully they have made it so that you will only need ONE friend code for your 3DS versus each game using a unique code.  This tech-recipe will explain where to find your Friend Code once you have a Mii setup [...]

This tech-recipe will explain how to locate your Nintendo 3DS WiFi MAC Address. Some of us that have wireless networks that use MAC Address filtering to add another level of security. This will allow you to add your new device to that list.

This tech-recipe is for you new Nintendo 3DS owners.  One of the biggest selling points of the 3DS is its backwards compatibility with DS and DSi games.  When you first play a DS game though, you will notice it may not take up the full bottom or top screens. Let’s fix that!