It’s long been maintained that social media (and really, the Internet in general) is quite possibly the most distracting technology ever designed. It’s also been maintained that these distractions wreak havoc with our productivity, and are more or less destroying the workday of more than one person. Microsoft’s recently carried out a study,...

The Internet is simultaneously one of the greatest inventions ever forged by human hands and one of the worst. It’s a tool that allows us access to infinite information and entertainment, and opens up entirely new avenues of employment, but at the same time, can cause productivity to drop directly through the floor if you aren’t careful. It’s...

Let’s face it – nobody’s perfect, not even the new iOS 6 mobile operating system from Apple that was launched on September 21, 2012. Although there’s a lot to love about this new iOS, it also comes with some flaws. Some of these flaws are well known by now, while there are some others that are not rated as an epic flaw. For example – Apple’s new...

It’s a fairly simple task to use a 360 controller on a PC. All you really need to do is plug it in, and download a few drivers from Microsoft’s website. But what if you don’t have a 360? What if you’ve got a PS3? No worries – while the process is certainly a bit more involved than setting up a 360 controller, it’s still not...

Collaboration technologies are at the very core of any modern business. These services allow for a faster and easier passing of information, let you upload data in a matter of seconds, work on documents, share your knowledge and leave comments. Most of the people who use collaboration tools admit its value. However many businesses still question the feasibility...

We all know what bloatware and crapware are, even if we’re not fully aware of it. They’re the programs we love to hate- the digital garbage packed on to pre-built PCs that their users neither want nor need. Usually, they accomplish nothing, aside from slowing down your system to a crawl. In the worst cases, PCs which might otherwise boot up in...

Most of us have used our phones as music players at some point, but we can also use them to share our tastes and get more info on our favourite artists and related music events. Here is a list of five favourite music apps for android: Last.fmThis is a mobile phone optimized version of the popular Last.fm social network. In some countries, it can be used as a...