On one of the crew t-shirts is seen “End of an Era”; that’s because Shuttle Endeavor in this video is getting prepared for its final departure – as in the last one it ever takes. America was at one point very “space crazy” where everyone was talking about it. Called the “Space Race”, it started in 1957 and ended...

It’s things like this that make you really wonder if owning Apple products are really worth it or not. As you can plainly see in the above video, Apple products are valuable. So valuable that there are thieves willing to ram an Apple store with a truck just to get the merchandise and fence it for a quick buck. Here’s an ugly truth about owning Apple...

Those of you familiar with the online gaming community can pretty much skip this post right over. I’m not telling you anything you haven’t already heard before – just very basic terminology that might overwhelm and confuse a lot of newcomers to a game like WoW or League of Legends.  We’ll keep this short and sweet. Let me know in the...

There are drop tests, and then there are drop tests. In the above video, the Kindle Fire HD is dropped. On the corner. On the back. And on the front. On asphalt. I don’t think you could ask for a better real-world test. Now in case you don’t want to watch the video above, here’s how the Kindle Fire fared out. On the back drop, the chassis...

Yeah, Steam is coming to Linux. We’ve heard that for a while. But the project is gaining some, well, steam (couldn’t avoid that pun) and it looks like the Steam platform should really work well on Linux. The ever-present issue of course is the commercial aspect of the whole thing. The Linux community by nature is very anti-commercial, yet at the...

As long as human beings have been communicating with one another, there have been bad eggs- people who, for one reason or another, see their fellow human beings as little more than a means to an end. These con artists think nothing of running their marks out of house and home, with little consideration for the lives they ruin – so long as they make a...

The self-driving car. You’ve heard about Google making this a reality, but you’ve also heard that, well, the way they do it isn’t safe; the reason for that is that Google, as big as they are, just isn’t a car company and never will be. Volvo on the other hand is obviously a car company and has a very strong reputation on building some of...

It’s been a while  now since Google announced their plans to launch Google TV and now it’s time to learn more about it. There are new television sets on the market that are Google-enabled and if you haven’t had the chance to pick one up yet, you may be missing out. Google TV is a software While many people envision a TV set when they think of Google TV,...

The above video is of an Ainol Novo Elf II. Never heard of it? Neither had I until I watched the video. It’s a 7-inch-screen 8GB Android tablet for – get this – 128 bucks at wholesale price. And to the best of my knowledge it’s not one of those “you have to buy 10 to get the price”. You can buy just one and get it for the...

It’s a pretty ordinary day for you. You’ve just gotten home from work (or from wherever you happen to spend your time during the week), and you’ve decided to putz about on the Internet for a while. Suddenly, you hear a rather strange, irritating sound- a series of rapid, loud buzzing sounds emanating from your speakers. Almost immediately...

Problem Steps Recorder is definitely something that’s worth getting to know, whether using it to send instructions on how to do something, or get help by sending a record of what you clicked on before you had a problem/got stuck/etc. The only unfortunate part is how hidden this feature is! I do wish it wasn’t so difficult to locate in the Windows...

Unless I’m mistaken, there are three ways to use keystrokes in Windows to switch tasks. The most famous is ALT+TAB which has been around in Windows ever since version 3.0. The second is ALT+ESC (which I don’t recommend because it has a habit of only working “when it wants to”). The third, introduced in Windows Vista and also present in...

Modern computing has one very negative side effect to it – clutter. With the positively staggering selection of applications available to us, it’s incredibly easy for the software on our systems to devolve into a terrible, chaotic mess – not to mention the fact that downloading and installing applications and updates is something of a herculean...

The KernelEx software which I did a video on fairly recently does in fact state that it will allow you to run Firefox 8 in Windows 98. Does it work? Indeed it does – HOWEVER – I don’t recommend doing it and stick with Fx 3.6.28 instead in the Win98 environment. You’ll see why by watching the video...

I mentioned the Anti-Aliasing Tuner for Firefox a while back, but being I just switched (mostly) over to Firefox 15, does this add-on still work? Yes, it does, thankfully. You can easily turn off that blurry-font nonsense easily and go back to a thicker, easier-read font rendering style with no problem by using this add-on. See the video below for details on how...

Where we work is a lot more important than some people realize. If your workplace is a filthy, chaotic mess, your mind is going to suffer. You’ll be less happy, less energetic, and less productive- even if you don’t realize it. Proper posture, well-timed breaks and good sleeping and eating routines are only part of the equation. One’s...

If you are (or maybe were by this point) a GoDaddy customer this week, life sucked for you because your site was down. Yeah sure, you got a free month’s credit for the downtime, but the point is your site was down for the count and there wasn’t a damned thing you could do about it. Or was there? Most small-biz people who run business web sites have...

Proving once again that the internet is one of the most awesomest things ever, Flightradar24 tracks flights. In real time. The little jets move and everything. Seriously. You can actually bring up a map just about anywhere in the world and watch exactly where flights are right now, and as they move, the map auto-updates right as you’re watching it. Hover...

The biggest problem with CDs and DVDS is how fragile they tend to be. It’s way too easy for them to be scratched, smudged, or otherwise damaged – particularly in the case of game discs on older Xbox 360 consoles (Microsoft didn’t design the first iteration of that system particularly well).  A scratched disc is no good-it skips, freezes,...

The following quick-and-easy trick is something anyone can do with any digital camera that has an autofocus feature. Here’s a photo of an old beat-up USB pendrive I have:In the way I shot this photograph, I purposely put the left side in focus and the right side out-of-focus to give the photo some more depth. Did I take the photo with a ritzy camera?...