Internet
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I believe the Internet to be the lifeblood of modern society. Virtually everything we do nowadays- from our jobs, to our interactions, to our leisure time- involves the ‘net in some way, shape, or form. It’s almost unheard of for someone in the first world to go even a single day without going online even...
Some of you may have heard talk that the NSA is building a super data center down in Utah, with the intention of spying on citizens across the States- and possibly even outside of the States. Now, you all know how journalism can sometimes be – sensationalism’s the word, and stories like that have to be taken with a grain of salt, right? This data...
Many Gmail’ers are now forced to deal with the new design of the Gmail interface (meaning no option to revert back to the old design, which will soon be implemented across all accounts); it can be best be described as "the improvements nobody wanted nor asked for". Included with the new interface are icons with no text, wide-spaced nonsense that...
Online video sharing isn’t what it used to be, that’s for sure. The choices for alternative places to post your videos are getting a bit on the slim side. Before talking about MoonTube, here are a few other YouTube alternatives: Vimeo – Still one of the best alternatives. Had a very good interface and always loads quick. Dailymotion –...
Most people are surprised that you can post videos via email to YouTube. It’s true. Login to your YouTube account, use the drop-down button at top right and click Settings:…and on the Overview section (which should be the first thing you see), there is a "Mobile uploads" email address:The mobile email address is randomly assigned by...
You’ve got something to share with the world. Maybe you want to record in-game footage to show friends and neighbors your awesome strategy in League of Legends. Perhaps you want to run a full play-through of a game, complete with your own commentary. Maybe you’re an artist and you want people to see the organic process by which you craft your...
When it comes email signatures that gets noticed above others (such as for business purposes), most people do it the wrong way. The wrong way is to add in big images, huge text, crazy fonts or some other such nonsense. Getting an email signature noticed can be done easily by simply using non-standard ways of how they’re displayed. And the fortunate part...
Even though the GIF is an ancient image format, people primarily use it to create small animated for use in forums, email and things like that. Why? Because it’s the easiest way to create a small animation. While it’s true that PNG can be animated via APNG, the problem is that most browsers don’t even support it (not even Chrome!) You could use...
It used to be that inserting an image into the body of an email was simple, but that was back in the day when everyone used to use email clients. Today, most people use webmail instead, and very few webmail interfaces actually allow placing images in the body of the message. AOL Mail is one of the few that still has the feature. Hotmail has a "Photos"...
Most of you by now have probably heard that Google’s implemented a new privacy policy that came into effect on March 1st. A lot of you, however, likely don’t know just what this entails. What does it mean for your searches? Your personal information? Your privacy? Nothing good. The new policy, Google cheerfully claims, is designed to help deliver...
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