If you subscribe to the PCMech newsletter, in last week’s rant I wrote about how I quit cloud storage completely. Yes, I still house my email “in the cloud”, so to speak, but as far as file storage services like Dropbox and SkyDrive, I quit those completely. Cloud storage invented this need to the effect of, “If you’re not...

Twitter’s been gaining a lot of momentum lately. And why shouldn’t it be? It’s the essence of the modern social network – a constant, online stream of people’s thoughts, opinions, and ideas. A means of sharing cool links and information in a quick, easily-read format. There’s a lot of reasons Twitter’s popular but...

Since I know a few who read this will probably get instantly confused here, what I’m specifically talking about is www.outlook.com web-based email and not the Microsoft Outlook software product. Yeah, I know, Microsoft did a dumb again by naming two products almost the exact same thing even though they’re almost completely different from each...

Did you know Bing Maps has the ability to show coordinates for easy-use in your GPS? It’s true. For the longest time there was no way to get coordinates out of Bing Maps, but now all it takes is a single-right-click and you can get coordinate information quickly and easily. See video below to see how it’s...

The new Digg (which I suppose you could call a news aggregator site?) is now online, dubbed the “v1″ system as it is a total rewrite. Admittedly, I like the design. A lot. It’s clean, simple and easy-to-use. There is no guesswork involved when using the Digg site, and no learning curve. There is, however, one fatal flaw with the system. You...

For some reason, you want to erase your online tracks. We’re not going to discuss why – I’m sure you have an excellent reason to do so. The process involved in deleting your history and all the files associated with it depends entirely on what browser you happen to be using.  We’ll start with Google Chrome. Chrome: First, click on the...

Netflix, as most subscribers to that service area aware, is Silverlight powered. And as any Linux user who has tried to get Silverlight working on that particular operating environment knows, it’s not easy. Not impossible as there are workarounds, but not easy. As to the question of whether Netflix will ever support Linux? Nope. The alternative to Netflix...

In the context of this article, a self-publishing website is any place where you create the content, post it for sale through their system and get paid via direct deposit, mailed check or PayPal. Examples of sites like these are Zazzle, Lulu and CreateSpace. Self-publishing doesn’t always refer to books whether printed or e-book, as it could also mean...

Social networks are great, aren’t they? They let you share your thoughts on Life, The Universe, and Everything with, well…everyone and everything in the Universe, really. You can tell everybody what you ate for breakfast! You can let your friends know how awesome (or terrible) that new cafe that opened downtown is! You can tell advertisers and...

YouTube launched in 2005. Prior to that it was very difficult to share video on the internet, and video streaming was almost nonexistent. Yes, there was RealPlayer streaming, but nobody offered this capability for free. The way people used to share videos before YouTube was to manually share static video files via email, newsgroups and websites. An example of...