If you spend any time in the blogosphere at all, you’ve probably heard at least one person make reference to SOPA- the Stop Online Piracy Act. See, businesses are at the end of their ropes- no matter how many people they sue or how many file-sharing websites they take down, more pirates always crop up, using the ‘persecution’ they feel along...

Why bother to know where open Wi-Fi locations are? There are several reasons, but one of the biggies is to save money. If for example you have a Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone or iPod Touch and a $2.99/month Skype account, that does mean wherever there’s Wi-Fi, you can place calls using that instead of a wireless carrier’s network. And if connecting...

If you hang out on the ‘net at all, you’ve probably heard of this weird little website (well, maybe not so little- it’s got over one hundred seventy-five million users at the time of writing this) called Twitter, represented by a tiny bluebird. You’re not quite sure what to make of it. What’s it about? Why do people use it? And...

It’s that time of the year again. First year University students are stumbling into post-secondary institutions, wide-eyed and scared, with no idea of what they’re doing, where they’re going or how they’re going to get there. Those who’ve been in the institution for a while are shaking off the after-effects of a summer of binge...

The Google+ service has – unofficially – recently passed the 62 million user mark; that’s impressive given how new it still is. Granted, that figure is nowhere near Facebook’s 800 million strong user base, but then again Facebook has been around significantly longer. It’s been said (even by Google themselves) that G+ is not a social...

Minecraft. At the mention of that word, I’ll guarantee half of you felt at least a minor jolt of excitement, while the other half either shrugged apathetically or scratched their heads in confusion. For those of you who don’t know, Minecraft is quite possibly one of the most popular indie games around. While still in beta, it gathered over ten...

I’ll say up front that none of what you’ll read below pertains to major-provider webmail users such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, Hotmail, GMX and so on. What I’m talking about here are those that still use personal-domain-based, company-based or ISP-based addresses that have overzealous anti-spam crapola in effect. 1. Forcing proof of who...

So, you’re probably aware that you can either stream or directly load media files onto your Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. It’s a pretty handy feature. Say you’ve got yourself a movie, or a television series that you’ve purchased in digital format. Rather than having to watch it on the small screen of your computer or laptop you can set them...

I always find it fairly shocking how many people don’t seem to particularly care about keeping their email accounts safe and secure. Whether or not they’re trying to keep their computer safe in other ways, email seems to be neglected more often than not. Given how much personal information – passwords, website data, even financial stuff...

Now, a lot of you are probably wondering why the hell I’m actually bothering to publish an article about what you likely deem an incredibly simple topic. In truth, you’d be surprised how many people actually don’t know their way around the Chrome Web Store – or even their own browser. Many of them are probably fairly new to Chrome, and...