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 your email as a simple task reminder; how it’s done is very...

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 is just flat out wrong (Note:...

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...

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-...

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 towns, and cities, and nations....

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...

I’ve written about this before, but the way Google Maps does this now is totally different from my previous documentation on the subject (text was replaced with button and moved to the left instead of on the right). It’s very common that people send links to mapped addresses (and/or routes) all the time, and it’s also common that the links...

Let’s say you’re browsing the Internet, looking at pictures of cats (or of whatever else keeps you entertained). Suddenly…huh…that…doesn’t look right. Is that legal? Something’s definitely off about that image, and you’re pretty sure the website you just accessed thanked you for your patronage by immediately...

So, let’s say you’re putzing about in front of your computer one night, when all of a sudden, you’ve got a hankering to play some Pokemon.  unfortunately, while you’ve found your game cartridge, your handheld is nowhere in sight. The last instance you can recall seeing it brings to mind vague memories of a poker game, tequila, and a...

In this issue of In Layman’s Terms, let’s have a look at some pretty common terminology surrounding Malware. Illegitimate software designed with malicious, usually illegal, intent. Cookie: A cookie is a text file stored on your computer whenever you visit a website. Generally, these files store user information and other pertinent data regarding your...