Recently I decided to give the SkyDrive App a go. Is it better than Dropbox? Before I tell you that answer, I’ll tell you what makes SkyDrive better than Dropbox up front: 7GB of storage, with a free upgrade to 25GB:More free storage is good and all that, but how does the app compare to Dropbox? Firstly, it has a nice icon that sits neatly in the tray...

So, let’s say you’ve uploaded a cool new video to YouTube…and you’re worried someone might try to snatch it for themselves, and use it to spice up their website or display on their page. Hey, it’s a legitimate concern, right? Fortunately, for you, it’s pretty easy to prevent this sort of content ‘theft’ from...

Here’s my three-word summary concerning this: It’s about time. Comcast, Time Warner, Cablevision Systems, Cox Communications, and BrightHouse Networks (and I happen to be a BrightHouse subscriber with Tampa being one of the covered areas) just opened up a whopping 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, and the way it was done actually makes complete sense. If you...

I had a phone call recently with a family member who is the manager of a small business in Massachusetts, and that business has somewhere in the neighborhood of a few hundred regular clients. The phone call was one of panic, because a message needed to be sent out to the client base quickly. Postal mail was too slow, so email needed to be used instead, and the...

Truth be told, I don’t really listen to the radio all that much anymore. It wakes me up in the morning, and I’ll hear it when I’m in the car…and that’s about it. That’s the entire breadth of my experience with it. Like a lot of older media, the radio’s kind of going by the wayside a bit with the advent of the glorious...

This happened to me this morning. I’m quite sure I’m not the first to see this, but unlike most people, I have the power of a fairly busy website to help get the word out. And keep people out of potential trouble. My wife and I were browsing home rentals in our area. One particular home in a desirable neighborhood in this area stood out to us...

There are plenty of computer users who absolutely hate the glossy screen, be it a laptop panel or desktop display. And sure, it’s easy enough to tell someone “Well then, don’t buy one!”, but sometimes there’s no choice in the matter. Maybe your monitor quit on you and you needed to buy a new one that day, and the only thing...

Cleaning a laptop keyboard – and there’s really no other way to say this – is a serious pain in the ass. You can’t pop off the keys like you can with a normal PC keyboard because of the way they’re designed, and it’s usually ridiculously difficult to get to that one spot where all the crud seems to crop up – the edges...

So…the unthinkable has happened. Somehow, your hard drive has just….given up. What can you do? How can you proceed from here? Is your data safe? Will you need to replace your computer? What about all your personal information? Here’s a few steps you should go through when you’re having hard drive troubles, in order to determine what the...

Every version of Disk Defragmenter that’s ever been shipped with Windows has been awful. Not “sort of” awful, just awful. Yes, they work, but not very well. Defraggler on the other hand works great, is free and is a good solid replacement for the wonky Windows Disk Defragmenter. There are some things you can do to speed up the defrag times so...

In the productivity department, having a task organizer is a good idea because it helps you keep track of all your stuff. On the mobile side of things, even the simplest featurephone has a “memo” feature that can be used for very basic task management. On advanced smartphones, I don’t know of any that doesn’t have a task management app, and you also...

When people make PC cases, they want to make them unique. They want them to reflect who they are as people, to be a unique demonstration of their individual personality. Of course, sometimes they take this uniqueness too far. Whether as a result of eccentricity or just odd taste, the five computers on this list stand apart from the rest. There’s going out...

The ride is over for VZW customers who were able to keep their unlimited plans for this long (VZW introduced tiered pricing some time ago, but existing customers were allowed to keep their unlimited data plans), as Verizon is dumping unlimited data plans completely. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo – now hated by many VZW customers big time – explained that “you...

If you have a laptop that’s not over 3 years old, you may have a “LINE IN” port for sound input and didn’t even know it. Certain laptop manufacturers do actually include a 2-channel (meaning stereo) port MIC port next to the output port; this allows you to plug in things like iPods and other audio devices over a traditional 3.5mm stereo...

So, you’re looking to up your game a bit, are you? Tired of using your laptop’s built-in webcam to co-ordinate with your teammates on Mumble? Sick of your positively ancient headphones? Maybe it’s time to look into getting yourself one of the headsets pictured below. Although some of them might end up getting a tad pricey, they’re...

There’s some poll results out right now that not-so surprisingly half – yes, half – of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad. The poll in question was conducted by Associated Press and CNBC. Now in case you weren’t aware, Facebook is going public as a company, as in a publicly-traded company, this week. Many are saying "too...

Time Warner Cable has decided to can the RoadRunner branding completely concerning its internet service offerings. This does not mean the internet service itself is going belly-up, but the name is going to change and for some subscribers the pricing schema will change as well. BrightHouse Networks in Florida for example does use the Time Warner Roadrunner...

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Google’s newest offering. Termed Google Drive, it’s laden with quite a few big expectations- not the least of which is the belief that it might well help Google breathe some new life into its currently ailing, somewhat lackluster Chromebooks. But just what is drive? And what can you use it for? To make a...

Recently on Reddit, an admitted botnet operator/malware coder opened up a "Ask Me Anything" so anyone could ask him why he does what he does. In the description of the Q&A, he actually gave some great advice on how to prevent yourself from being subject to what’s known as "driveby" malware infections: Protip against driveby...

What is 802.11ac? It’s the wireless networking standard that will, hopefully, allow high throughput in the 5GHz band; this is a notable improvement over 802.11n-2009 (a.k.a. Wireless N), because while N does have a 5GHz mode, most people have had only a "fair" experience with that standard. More often than not, most people are only able to...