Ever since the internet came into existence, sports discussion has always been there; it’s a topic that as long as teams are playing, it will be talked about. In pre-web days, many text discussions were about sports. In post-web, the earliest internet "portals" always had a sports section. In modern day, sports stories and discussions [...]
Bodhi Linux is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution using the Enlightenment window manager. Bodhi is purposely engineered to be minimalist with a very small amount of bundled apps, resulting in a very small distribution image of under 400MB. The system requirements to run Bodhi only require a 300MHz CPU, 128MB RAM and 1.5GB space, so it [...]
One of the absolute cheapest ways to compute – other than a smartphone – is by using an Ultra-mobile PC or UMPC for short. If you’re thinking, "Didn’t they stop making those?" Nope. They’re still made and one can easily be bought for under $100 new, but before you say "COOL!" and run out to [...]
In the Yahoo! Pulse service, formerly known as Yahoo! Profiles, the service won’t be going away completely but the blogs, photos and guestbook apps within it will be. It’s most likely true that most of you don’t use Pulse (and maybe even never heard of it), but the way Y! is handling this is far [...]
Imagine your smartphone or tablet screen as a flexible, elastic material. As it turns out, you might not have to wait long. Researchers from Osaka University have developed what they are coining the “Flex” interface and it will likely be reaching cellphones and tablets before we know it. These researches identified a key problem with [...]
Don’t answer “no” before you read what I’ve got to share with you. You can create a decent Flash site in an hour or less – all you need is the free Wix website builder. I am NOT a fan of Flash sites, but I do have to admit that sometimes a Flash site rocks. [...]
A cooperative video game is one where the game either offers or requires cooperative (as in a team of players) gameplay in order to play. Usually this also means the game offers Team vs. Team play as well. Sometimes it’s just two teams, sometimes multiple. Everyone likes free games, and if you’re into the cooperative [...]
I recently came into possession of a Dell Latitude CPt S. It has an Intel 600MHz Celeron CPU, 6GB hard drive, 256MB RAM, 14-inch 1024×768 native LCD display, 3Com 10/100 CardBus Ethernet, no wireless capability whatsoever unless I decided to put in a PCMCIA wireless card, and a single USB 1.1 port. The unit is [...]
The cheapest new motherboard for a PC is about $40. On that motherboard regardless of OEM you will find a built-in network interface that allows for 10/100Mbps wired Ethernet connectivity. For any other higher-priced motherboard you would buy, it would also have built-in wired networking. In fact it’s probably true you’d have a hard time [...]
Just about everyone can afford a big-ass TV these days, and generally speaking any screen over 36 inches on the diagonal is considered "extra large" territory. There’s plenty of articles online that will tell you in a very techy way how to determine the maximum size of TV you can use for a room, such [...]
With the upcoming reality of Gmail having graphical ads (meaning images in ads instead of just text), some of you out there are interested in making the switch to using a mail client instead of a browser. While true you could use any modern mail client, Mozilla Thunderbird is a good choice because it works [...]
Challenge questions are those things you answer that are supposed to enhance the security of your account for whatever the account is, be it email, online banking, etc. An example challenge question would be, "In what city were you born?" Inevitably you’re going to be given a challenge question that you don’t have an answer [...]
I’m going to start this one off by stating up front that I’m not a doctor, although I don’t think one would help out too much even if you did consult one concerning this subject; you’ll understand what I mean by that in a moment. Every day we’re exposed to some type of electricity in [...]
CCleaner isn’t bad, and in fact is one of the best registry cleaners for Windows there is. However people do like to have other choices just to see what else is out there; here are 3 alternatives you can try: Glary Utilities Site: www.glaryutilities.com This set of utilities packs quite a punch as far as [...]
In many movies and TV shows starting in the 1950s (or possibly earlier), we were shown instances of people having telephone conversations via video conferencing, be it one-to-one or one-to-many; this was seen as the modern communication of the future. The first real instance of truly easy video conferencing that anyone could use – and [...]
