Louis CK is a pretty well-known comedian. And honestly, one of my favorites. And he’s been generating some online news lately because of his sale of Live at the Beacon Theater. He produced it himself and took the sale directly to the Internet for $5/pop. And, as he said: No DRM, no regional restrictions, no crap. You can download this file, play it as...

It’s all too easy to point out the problems with Facebook because, let’s face it, it’s an easy target. On several occasions I’ve blasted Facebook for the dumb stuff they do, but I also do recognize the good that it brings to us. Here are 5 things that are good about using Facebook. 1. No need to remember anyone’s email address For...

I know there are more than a few of you out there running blockers of some type. Ad blockers, Flash blockers, NoScript, maybe even Ghostery. Some of you might even be using a custom HOSTS file just to block stuff. If that’s the way you roll, fine by me because I’m not the boss of you. People block stuff to either avoid ads, enhance security (e.g....

I don’t think it is much of a secret that Mozilla (the company behind Firefox) depends on Google to a very large degree for its own existance. Google pays Mozilla a big (yet, undisclosed) sum of money to keep Google as the default search engine in the Firefox browser. Without that revenue, Mozilla probably wouldn’t be here today. In 2011, Google...

Google Chrome like other browsers offers the ability to save passwords so you don’t have to type them in again, however there are certain instances where Chrome will not save a password; this happens either for legitimate reasons or because the web site "confuses" Chrome. A legitimate reason is that the site specifically instructs the browser not...

The IMAP mail protocol is something that most people have a love/hate relationship with for those that use it. The love comes from that you can sync mail between PCs and mobile devices easily, and the hate from that IMAP is notoriously "moody" for lack of a better term. Part of the reason IMAP sometimes has problems with synchronization is because...

Human nature is by design addicted to free stuff but who would blame us. Is there anyone in the world who hasn’t wished at least once a day to be able to get something without having to pay for it? It is no wonder Gmail, Youtube and the like have become so popular and a significant part of our daily lives. However, these major players are not the only...

Every other week we hear about how social media companies yet again made huge mistakes with the handling of the way they do things. Nobody is surprised by this anymore. It used to be that some people used social media casually where they would sometimes share things out on the internet, but these days share or sharing is now a dirty word whenever it’s...

Google is in the process of officially rolling out the new Gmail theme. My own account froze for a minute or so today, then rolled back online with the new design and an intro video. But, change isn’t easy. While most of the changes are totally OK with me, one thing I didn’t like was just how WIDE the individual email rows are by default. Come to...

I’ve been a YouTube user and content-maker since 2006, and have seen every design they’ve ever used. For "YouTubers" that have been using the site a long time like I have, it’s generally agreed upon that the first design (a.k.a. pre-Google’zied) was the best one, and since that point has been flop after flop after flop –...