If running a modern browser like the latest Google Chrome, IE9 or Firefox 6, there are some pretty darned good freebie titles out there you can play right now. Yes, they’re all free and yes, they’re all good.  World Golf Tournament I was not expecting this to be any good, but surprisingly this is a very detailed golf game. The mechanics do take...

DuckDuckGo is a search engine, and I know what you’re thinking. "Oh great, another engine I’ll never use." Well, you might use this one. People normally mention DuckDuckGo concerning its better privacy practices compared to Google or Bing. Yeah, yeah, DDG has good privacy, blah blah blah, but how does it do when you use it for search?...

A lot of people aren’t actually aware that Gmail has more than one look to it. Laugh if you will, but it simply doesn’t occur to a couple folks that they can customize their email experience. Even those who would like to usually have absolutely no idea where to start. Here’s a short, simple how to guide on creating your own theme. 1. Open the...

One thing I’ve noticed a lot of people run into – and that includes a considerable number of tech blogs (I’m looking at you, Business Insider)- is a tendency to confuse Chrome and Chromium. And hey, I can’t really blame them for that. The two operating systems are rather strikingly similar. After all, one does happen to be built based on...

With the release of Chrome 14 onto the Beta channel, there’s been a lot of talk about some new program known as “Native Client” that’s built into Chrome. Everyone says its a new feature, a new function…except, it really isn’t. Thing is, Native Client has actually been built into every release of Chrome since 10 or 11. The Beta...

Most of you who use webmail probably configure the welcome screen to give you local information; this is accomplished by typing in what town/state you’re living in. After that you receive news headlines that are supposed to be local to you. The problem however is that local really doesn’t mean local in this instance, but rather regional. For example,...

Bloglines at one point was on the chopping block and was going to go away permanently, but then in very-late 2010 it was saved and has been running ever since. Basically put, the only way to use RSS the right way the first time is through a web service, namely Google Reader; a service a ton of people use for keeping up with the web sites, public Facebook pages...

Long ago when I was playing Diablo II regularly, a friend of mine gave me an item in-game that he thought would help me out during gameplay. It was some kind of jewel or rock or whatever it was. I found that I didn’t have much use for it and discarded it by dropping it somewhere and moving on. A few days later, that friend asked me if that jewel/rock/thing...

So, let’s say you’re starting up a website or blog, or maybe you’re talking to someone who runs one. They’re telling you about how their blog is growing, and they drop some phrase like “Well, just the other day, my website’s page rank went from three to four.” Naturally, you’re a bit confused at this. First,...

Well, we’ve heard time and time again that IE6 needs to go away and stay away. Heck, even Microsoft wants it gone for good. If you know the basics of PHP, below are code examples you can use to remind IE6 users to upgrade on your own web site, should you have one. Requirements: A Linux or UNIX based web server running Apache and PHP. The vast majority of...