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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Everyone who’s ever written an academic paper knows that academia in general doesn’t much care for Wikipedia. Citing the Internet’s largest open encyclopedia is more or less a guaranteed fast track to a failing grade, and a great many experts caution against using it, stating that the information contained on the site is both incomplete and...

Keeping track of your finances is especially important if you’re a freelancer- after all, you don’t tend to receive paychecks in the same way you would in a more structured setting. The job of tracking your finances- ensuring you’ve been paid your due in a timely fashion- is entirely on you. No one’s going to come to you and let you know...

Digital Rights Management. Few things raise the hackles of PC gamers more than those three words. Granted, it’s not always terrible. DRM can, when done right, protect the intellectual property of a developer without making legitimate customers feel like criminals. The trouble is, it’s almost never done right anymore. Virtually the only example I can...

Some time ago, a friend of mine had a laptop with a rather irritating problem. For some reason that none of us could discern, the device had rather severe heat problems (basically, it overheated to the point that it had to shut down, else it might permanently damage its hardware). He ended up selling it to some guy looking for parts, and going to purchase a new...

Many people develop viruses and they do it for a wide range of reasons. Maybe they’re looking to mine personal and financial information. Perhaps they’re trying to set up a zombie botnet to execute an attack of some kind. Could be they’re trying to force people into purchasing software. Or of course, they might just want to watch the world burn...

If you’re going to be gallivanting about the internet, you’re going to need to have a halfway decent password to protect your account from being hacked. Now, to be fair, most of the time, when an account or service is broken into, the fault lies solely with the user. Maybe they didn’t scan often enough for viruses, spyware, and malware....

Here’s a bit of a pickle for you. You’ve got some little, 15 inch laptop on which you want to game, but the screen kinda hurts your eyes a bit. We’ve all been there, right? Now, let’s take things a little further and assume you’ve also got an old iMac sitting around. Now, the screen on that thing is just a touch bigger than your...

Nowadays, games are bigger and better than they’ve ever been. We’ve got hyper-realistic graphics, top-notch voice actors, sweeping, operatic musical scores and epic plots that span galaxies, worlds, and universes. The sky’s the limit- gaming’s never been better. Right? If all that is true, why do so many people seem to be feeling such a...