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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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?...

On the YouTube.com web site, every account has the ability to be configured not to play HD-enabled video by default:…and this is good. Even if you have a fast internet connection, I recommend using the slow-connection option because it makes the YouTube experience much, much quicker. However, the same can’t be said for other sites on the...

ROBOCOPY, as in “Robust File Copy for Windows”, is something that’s been a standard feature of the Windows environment since Windows Vista. Prior to that it was available in Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP via the “Windows Resource Kit” as a separately installed utility. What does ROBOCOPY do that regular COPY or XCOPY...

A Google Doodle is when Google changes its home page logo for something that recognizes and/or celebrates a specific events in history. One of the more notable they’ve done in a long time is a doodle on Star Trek’s 46th Anniversary of their first broadcast:This is one of the best they’ve ever done and there are several easter eggs in it (if...

To some who read this, the title of this article sounds a bit ridiculous. “What do you mean ‘teach kids how to do things offline’? Are you serious?” Yes, I’m quite serious. There are kids today who literally do not know how to find a job without using the internet. Many also know nothing about how to save cash from the use of...

Fact: 99.9% of you use email the wrong way. Fact: Most of you are forced to use email the wrong way. Fact: The reason we use email the wrong way is mainly Microsoft’s fault. I say mainly because Lotus (IBM) is also partially at fault as well. How email used to work when it was done the right way Originally, email was designed to be used conversation-style....

As far as I know, there is no recent statistical information on what people are using these days for email clients. Sure, you’ll find user stats for webmail like Hotmail, Y! Mail, Gmail and so on, but as for mail clients, not really. My guess – and yes, this is only a guess – is that there are still a fair amount of Microsoft Outlook Express 6...