A Web of Likes: The Complex Nature of Internet Addiction

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Previously, I posted an infographic which dealt with the intricacies of social media addiction, its impacts on one’s day to day life, and, finally, how to tell if one was addicted. One of the most distressing features of that infographic was, without a doubt, the revelation of just how many people from the younger generation [...]

Dealing With Content Scrapers

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There is a particularly vile breed of scum populating the corners of the blogosphere. These men and women haven’t got a single shred of originality between them – yet somehow they continue to come up with new, regular, and fresh content for their blogs. That it’s not theirs is just a minor technicality – what [...]

[Daily Tip]: Figuring Out Your Wireless Password in Windows 7

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Just a quick one for you folks today. Some time ago, I was at a friend’s place. We were about to do a bit of gaming, so I pulled out my laptop, meaning to connect to her wireless. Unfortunately, she couldn’t actually remember her wireless key – nor could her family. Now, ordinarily, this problem [...]

How to Watch American Netflix Outside of the US

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As I’m sure many of you do, I have a Netflix account. It’s pretty awesome- for a paltry $10 a month, I’ve access to a whole library of movies and TV shows which I can watch whenever and wherever I desire (so long as I’ve a stable Internet connection, anyway). Unfortunately, since I live outside [...]

Daily Tip: How to Stop YouTube Videos from Cutting Off Early

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So, you’re showing a friend a video on YouTube – it’s one you’ve seen several times before, and you still can’t get enough of it – and just when it’s getting to the good part, it cuts out, and skips straight to the end. A bit frustrating, isn’t it? Thankfully, the issue’s actually fairly easy [...]

[INFOGRAPHIC]: Solving Crime with Social Media

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It takes a very specific, very special kind of person to knowingly violate the law – and an even more special kind to talk about it on Facebook after the fact. I’ve said time and again in my posts that you need to watch what you say online – or, at the very least, make [...]

Is Saving your Login Information Insecure?

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At the time of writing, it’s been about a week since I received a rather interesting email from CNet, detailing a question I’m sure at least a few of us have asked ourselves in the past: is saving your log-in information in your web browser a bad move? After all, it’s something a lot of folks [...]

5 Useful Tools for the Online Marketer

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We have seen a lot of SEO developments recently; from search engine algorithm improvements and penalties, to the ever-changing responsibility of the SEO marketer and how his role has changed. This has left a lot of online marketing companies uncertain of what to do and what they should be focusing on, trying to figure out [...]

Combating Browser Bloat

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So…your browser’s been unnaturally slow lately. Where once it’d blast you through content like a jet-pack wearing ape on PCP, now it’s more like a stoned elephant. What’s the deal? What could be causing your browser to be slowing down so much? Why has browsing the Internet become such a chore? More importantly, what can [...]

[INFOGRAPHIC]: Social Media Addiction Explained

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Whoever claims that it’s not possible to be addicted to a social network is either lying or uninformed. Social media addiction is, like Internet addiction, a very real, very troubling phenomenon. It’s not ‘all in the head’ of the addicted users (even if it were, would that not constitute a behavioral addiction?). Believe it or [...]

[INFOGRAPHIC]: The Cost of Distraction

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It’s long been maintained that social media (and really, the Internet in general) is quite possibly the most distracting technology ever designed. It’s also been maintained that these distractions wreak havoc with our productivity, and are more or less destroying the workday of more than one person. Microsoft’s recently carried out a study, which, believe [...]

Avoiding Brain Drain on the Internet

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The Internet is simultaneously one of the greatest inventions ever forged by human hands and one of the worst. It’s a tool that allows us access to infinite information and entertainment, and opens up entirely new avenues of employment, but at the same time, can cause productivity to drop directly through the floor if you [...]

Show, Don’t Tell: Visualization and the Internet

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Another quickie for you guys today. Here’s a rather fascinating infographic I saw just the other day. Ironically…it’s about the reason infographics are so bloody popular. Time and again, we’ve proven – particularly as our age moves from more abstract forms of entertainment to more concrete ones – that human beings are, in general, visual [...]

It Takes a Village: The Importance of Off-site SEO

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In today’s technology-ridden society, people no longer “look things up” in encyclopedias or even search engines. “Google” has become a verb, replacing all other synonyms and being used even when that particular search engine is not. Google’s competitors are fighting to achieve the same status. Since search engines basically have the power to decide what [...]

Virtualizing Your Keepsakes In the Cloud

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You may recall that fateful day in January when iconic photography mogul Kodak filed for bankruptcy. With the filing came the end of an era. Film rolls and negatives are slowly becoming things of the past as SD cards and digital drop boxes carve out their niche in the photography world. As a parent versed [...]

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