The recent fiasco with SOPA and PIPA, and now ACTA has thrown into sharp relief the question of online privacy and freedom. Who controls our personal data? Who has access to it? How do we know someone’s not tracking us online? Who can we actually trust? What can we actually share?  These questions were already pertinent and if ACTA passes, they’ll...

The mass-deleting of fake likes and fans has officially begun on Facebook. This is something that was reported several months back, but as of now it’s gone into full swing. Something that Facebook should do is employ the use of deferrment, and if they haven’t done so, they should. On most major webmail systems, there are algorithms in place where if...

Here’s something in the arcade gaming world that nobody thought would ever happen: Pinball machines – which are still made new to this day as shown above – are actually more popular than arcade video game machines. Quite a turnaround, eh? Pinball has been around a very, very long time – as in since the 1700s. Yes, the technology is...

It’s not enough to just have a secure password, sadly. Even if you have the most brilliantly designed, complicated password in the world, it can still be cracked. No system is secure, and all it takes is a determined enough hacker or a key-logger. Thankfully, most businesses seem to understand that and provide their users with a plethora of advanced...

For this Chrome goodie I picked the game Isoball 3. I liked this game because it even though it’s Flash-based, it requires barely any computing power to run, and it’s ridiculously addictive. It’s not an action but rather a puzzle game, so you don’t have to race around or do anything that requires quick hand or finger movements. If you...

Gismeteo for Google Chrome is definitely one of the better weather apps I’ve seen for the browser, mainly for the reason it gives you the quick info you need to know right inside an icon, and on click gives you pretty much exactly what you were looking for concerning forecast information and so on. Most other weather apps are either way too much...

League of Legends is one of the most popular Free To Play games around – and why shouldn’t it be? Riot games, the company behind the the spiritual successor to the Warcraft 3 mod “Defense of The Ancients,” has rather outdone themselves. With new content every few weeks, a huge roster of characters to choose from, a plethora of...

For this tutorial I’m going to how to block in the Hotmail email system. The main difference between filtering and blocking is that filtering allows the email to be received normally (even if filtered to the Trash folder) but blocking does not. When you block an address, the receiving mail server literally rejects it, a copy of the message is never seen...

The way medicine is administered in the Star Trek universe is via a thing called a hypospray or “hypo” for short. Well, as you can see from the above video… that’s a hypospray. It’s not called that in the video, but it is a needle-less method of injecting fluids into the body. And the funny thing is that it even looks like a...

Most of you have probably heard of Google Docs by now, right? You know, the online, free-ware alternative to Microsoft Office? Given that it’s completely online and all files are stored in the cloud it shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of you that it’s pretty much perfect for working on collaborative projects. Got a presentation you’ve...

If you can believe it, the Mozilla Firefox browser is now 10 years old. Well, slightly older than that. Phoenix 0.1 (what it used to be called) was released 23-Sep-2002, which makes it 10 years and 2 days old at the time of this writing. The browser name Phoenix was dropped for Firebird, then that was changed to Firefox, and that’s the name that...

Microsoft shook up the gadget world last June with its announcement of Surface tablets. These 10.6-inch slates will ship with touch keyboard cases that allow you to choose between a typical touch-tablet experience and a more traditional laptop configuration. The software giant wants you to think a Surface tablet could be your next PC, but is this handheld,...

The first question you have is, “What’s the point of searching ended eBay auctions?” There’s actually a very good reason for it. Whether you’re a buyer or a seller, it’s important to see how much a particular item sold for before going to buy or sell the same item yourself. I’ll give a simple example. Let’s say...

Hey there, folks. In today’s issue, we’re going to have a look at a few terms and phrases specifically related to graphics and graphics cards. Naturally, we don’t have enough space to cover all of them in one article, so this is probably something we’re going to be revisiting at a later date. Ambient Occlusion: You’ve probably...

This will probably be the only time (at least from me) that you’ll ever see an unboxing video here. Why? Because unboxing videos are stupid, always have been stupid and always will be stupid. Unboxing videos either show the product barely being used or not used at all. Little to no information is given that the viewer would actually consider useful. The...

The game being played in the video above is called The Hidden if you want to check it out, but what makes this video a gem (at least for the first 45 seconds of it) is the spot-on impression of Morgan Freeman. You know, the actor from movies like The Shawshank Redemption and Driving Miss Daisy. This has been said before and will be said again – what makes...

You can tell a lot about a person through observation. How they dress, how they behave in public, how they talk, how they move…and apparently, how they surf. Well, sort of. According to a study which will be published in an upcoming issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, one’s browsing habits on the web are largely indicative of one’s...

If you hapeen to run the Firefox web browser portable-style, or you notice the browser has been acting slightly sluggish as of late on your computer, setting a manual limit for what the cache can hold may speed up your browser a bit. Doing this is no guarantee it will make the browser lightning fast, but it does save you from having to empty the cache manually...

I’ve been a Garmin GPS user since 2005. The very first I ever bought was a Garmin StreetPilot i3 which I paid $400 for. Yes, really. I do in fact still own it (and was able to update the maps to the 2013 set with a little fudging), but the one I use these days is a Garmin nüvi 40LM. The “LM” for those interested is “Lifetime...

Minecraft’s a pretty awesome game on its own. I’m not sure I can even count the number of hours I’ve spent in a virtual world, happily building whatever structure happens to pique my interest. As with most PC games, though, user-generated content makes the experience all the better. Due likely in part to the game’s programming language...