As you probably know, Facebook has been in the news recently being hammered for their apparent lack of concern regarding user privacy. While Facebook is responding to these issues, it raises the question: would you use a Facebook alternative where your data is controlled by you? Such a task is the goal of an in-progress open source project named Diaspora. The...

As a way to make pages load quicker in your browser, many sites utilize a paging method (next/previous page, jump to page X, etc.). This makes sense from both a server side (decreased bandwidth usage) and the client side (increase load time), but it requires user intervention to load the next page. Firefox users who want to have this content automatically...

Many Facebook apps are granted additional access to your data, with some even being allowed to post on your behalf. Taking that quiz or filling out your family tree may have seemed like a fun idea at the time – but before you know it, that app is spamming updates to all your contacts or sending you unwanted emails. What many people don’t know is that...

These tips are for use in supported browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc.), meaning they probably won’t work in Opera or other alternative browser. JavaScript also needs to be enabled in order for these to work (you would know if you turned if off). Yahoo! MailSearch mail: s Forward message: f Reply to all: a Turn the reading pane on or off:...

I received an e-mail that stated the following verbatim: Allied Fiber is Constructing a Nationwide, Network-Neutral, Dark Fiber Cable System Linking U.S. Subsea Landing Points, Major Data Centers, Colocation Interconnection Facilities, Rural Networks and Wireless Towers to Meet Increasing Market Demand Construction Underway to Complete the 1300 Route-Mile Phase...

Something I do quite a bit is email links to interesting articles I come across to people I think would find it interesting. While you can manually copy and paste the URL and paste it into an email, I use the built in browser function:Firefox: Right click on the page and select “Send Link”. Internet Explorer: From the Page menu, select “Send...

If your browser of choice is Internet Explorer 8 and you use Gmail as your email client, it makes sense to integrate the two. Using the Gmail Accelerator, a new option is added when you right click on links and/or highlighted text which reads “Send to Gmail”. This function does exactly what you would expect:Creates a new Gmail message Sets the...

There was a time when Hotmail and Y! Mail allowed the use of inline images when composing an e-mail, but then took away that functionality for whatever reasons. Gmail to the best of my knowledge has never had a native way of using inline images when composing a new message. Using a little copy/paste magic, you can insert inline images when composing a new mail...

If you run a website and have to tweak DNS records every now and then, you probably know that the changes can take up to several days to go through the entire internet. While this can be inconvenient, it is especially annoying if you want the changes to go through for you immediately. If you are using OpenDNS, you can force this change to go through almost...

Many of us use Gmail or Yahoo! Mail as our primary e-mail service. Many of us also use Firefox as our primary web browser. When you click an e-mail in Firefox, the default mail application loads, which in Windows could be Outlook Express 6 or Windows Live Mail. In OS X it would be Apple Mail and in Linux it would be Evolution (usually). Changing this behavior so...