Have you ever wondered what black, twisted mind dreamed up the abomination that is Captcha? Have you ever questioned what stygian depths spawned this horrible anti-spam measure- and why, for the love of all that is right and good, it has to be so illegible? That question occurred to me the other day, actually- so [...]
Dave writes: I use iGoogle on a daily basis as my homepage. Today I noticed a message at the top that it is going to be discontinued in 16 months. I really like iGoogle as I can get multiple RSS feeds layed out very nicely from websites that I cannot get to at work. Are [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a question for you. Who among you has actually bothered to read a privacy policy in your life? If you have, pat yourself on the back – you’re one of the only people who ever has. Those of you who simply don’t bother shouldn’t feel all that bad. Most people [...]
Hey there, folks. Today, it’s time for some slightly different fare. First, a brief sociology lesson. Marshall Mcluhan coined the term “Global Village” back in 1964, well before the development of the Internet. He saw what was coming – a completely unified communications network, connected on an entirely unprecedented scale. People from entirely different countries, [...]
I’m not ashamed to say I carry a particularly strong distaste for Internet advertising. It’s irritating and out of touch, and the core premise of most online advertising models is fundamentally broken. For every advertisement I saw that caught my eye; every well-designed, unique, creative marketing campaign, I was treated to about twenty which made [...]
I’m a regular Netflix user and do sincerely appreciate the service. When you purposely choose not to have cable or satellite TV and do the cord cutter thing, Netflix is usually what most people choose to go with in combination with DTV. Something I’ve found rather weird is Netflix’s inability to share anything outside of [...]
As I’ve said time and time again, the best part about running a Bukkit server is all the plugins you’ve got at your fingertips- it goes without saying, though, that some are more useful than others. Here’s a few more addons you might want to look into if you’re looking to see your server climb [...]
Honestly, the website I’m about to tell you about is really something everyone who’s ever been into PC gaming should be aware of – yet there are still some people who don’t actually know the site exists. That should change. Gaming’s pretty tough on your PC. Games software, particularly modern games software, requires a fair [...]
Here’s something that may blow a few minds- YouTube is, by far, not the only available video hosting and sharing website on the ‘net. There’s a whole host of (admittedly rather stunning) alternatives to YouTube out there. While most of them don’t necessarily have the advantage of YouTube’s huge user base, they make up for [...]
Inbox Zero in a nutshell means that at the end of the day that every message in your email inbox that was important was attended to, and then deleted or moved to an archive folder. If check your email fairly regularly during the day, either from your PC, work computer or smartphone, you can use [...]
It came as no surprise to me when I came across an article that stated a study shows how interesting screwed up things are on the Wikipedia web site concerning “edit wars”. Anyone who knows Wikipedia knows that the information there is not always accurate. In fact, there are many times when article information presented [...]
Today, we’re going to take a look at a few terms that are fairly often applied to software and what each term means. Vaporware: Vaporware basically describes an application that simply…isn’t. It’s software that’s neither developed nor officially cancelled and exists in a strange sort of limbo between real and nonexistent. This term could also [...]
Gaming is serious business. No, really, it is- games nowadays are a multi-billion dollar, blockbuster industry, and there’s plenty of folks- particularly in Massively Multiplayer Online Games- that are willing to shell out enormous sums of money for the sake of getting ahead of their peers. It’s like any highly competitive world or hobby- there’s [...]
So, you’re looking to set up a Minecraft server, but you aren’t really sure where to start. All you know is that the basic platform isn’t enough for you. The standard server tools just aren’t customizable enough for your tastes. You want a grand, glorious world that you can easily modify at will. You want [...]
Most of you know DuckDuckGo as just another “alternative search engine”. Well, there’s something else about that’s just plain cool and insanely usable, !bang keywords. I find myself using DDG !bang keywords a lot because they’re just so darned convenient. A !bang keyword’s purpose is to purposely use another site to find the stuff you’re [...]
