The private browsing feature (available in all major web browsers) is something most people don’t use simply for the reason it can prove to be inconvenient. For the most part, people use the private browsing feature so the browser doesn’t retain any cookies. Well, you don’t need to use private browsing to get that feature in Firefox, as you...

I’m going to be brutally honest here: The YouTube Politics site just plain sucks. Some of you may have tried to view online live video there only to deal with choppy video that barely runs at 3 frames a second (no joke). It’s almost as if you need a quad-core CPU with 1GB of video memory just to view that site correctly – and that’s...

Ultimately, it’s the FCC that has the final say-so on what parts of the spectrum band a wireless carrier can use. Obviously, wireless carriers want as much as they can get to serve as many customers as posisble. The FCC has officially allowed AT&T to use a portion of the 2.3GHz spectrum. Some of you may be thinking, “Gee.. that’s awful...

In the State of Texas, certain schools are requiring students to carry ID cards that have RFID chips embedded in them so there whereabouts can be monitored. Note on linked article above: The title of it is totally misleading, as the students are not being “micro-chipped”; it’s just a card and not an implant. As far as children in schools being...

I’ll totally admit that having a smartphone with the ability to snap photos (and shoot video) is mighty convenient. However that doesn’t mean the phone can actually take good pictures. As anyone learned in digital cameras is aware, more megapixels does not equal better quality photos, and even if a modern smartphone matches what your digital camera...

So… you want to go Mac, but you don’t want the high price tag that goes along with it, and decide to go used. Where do you go to find good used Macs? Personally, I find the best destination to be Apple Authorized Reseller shops. These are guys and gals that refit/rebuild/refurbish Macs to as-good-as-new condition, and most of the time offer a...

If you have a laptop made within the last 3 years, chances are very good it has a card reader slot. Chances are also very good your desktop computer also has a card reader (or one attached via USB). Using portable apps when bouncing between your laptop and desktop is convenient because those little cards stay tucked out of the way and perform...

There are some people who really like smooth scrolling when using a web browser on the desktop. In fact, the latest Firefox 16 installs with it enabled by default and has since version 15. Is smooth scrolling any good? I don’t define smooth scrolling as outright “good” or “bad”, because it all comes down to what you prefer to see...

For those not in the know, “WX” when referred to as a band means “weather”, so I’m talking about portable radios that can receive the AM, FM and WX bands. The deal when it comes to a portable radio is that everyone should own one for the simple reason that when the power is out, radio is quite literally your only way of getting...

Microsoft Office 2000 is, as far as I’m concerned, the best release of MSO ever to exist. Why? It’s lightning fast, has unbelievably good backward compatibility, and as you’ll see in the above video, it’s actually...

A relatively unknown feature of CCleaner that most people aren’t aware of is the ability to right-click on any section or group inside the application to clean parts of the Windows OS individually instead of all at once. Sometimes when running the CCleaner software you just want to clean specific parts instead of the entire OS. The above video shows you...

The initial release of 1995 happened on Thursday, 24 August 1995, which at the time of this writing was exactly 17 years, 1 month, 2 weeks, and 3 days ago. I can do this math easily because of Windows 7 Calculator, by the way:Gotta love Windows 7 Calculator. Anyway, I remember when Microsoft Windows 95 was new, and there’s been a whole bunch of stuff...

Something I find funny is how the internet throws out words and terms where the assumption is made that everyone is supposed to magically know exactly what the word/term means and how it’s applied. “Hashtag” is something which is a combination of two words, hash and tag. The hash part represents the octothorpe (#) which most people known as the...

Flash memory these days is stupidly cheap. A 64GB memory card is under 40 bucks. To put this in perspective, a 64GB memory card will hold the data of 13 DVD-5 (the 4.7GB kind) discs. Now while true that DVD media is way, way cheaper than Flash memory, bear in mind a memory card can never be scratched and is physically a whole lot smaller. At some point in the...

Skype, arguably one of the most-used instant messaging services these days, has recently had a rash of profile pic spam messages start appearing. The sad part? Some people are stupid enough to actually click those spam links and get infected with malware. Yes, it’s the same “run this EXE and see my pic” crapola you saw 10 years ago. You would...