In Layman’s Terms Issue 18- Hats

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Many folks have taken to referring to hackers by the theoretical color of their hat- white, black, or gray. But what, exactly does all that mean? How exactly does one categorize a ‘hat?’ Believe it or not, that’s actually incredibly simple- and nowhere near as complex as some of the other terminology we’ve covered. Let’s [...]

How To Schedule Facebook Fan Page Posts

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As said in the video above, it does amaze me that Facebook does offer good, usable features but then doesn’t even bother telling you how to use them unless you dig through their mostly-useless help system. Well, the video above explains backdated/scheduled posts in plain English. It’s very easy and works well once you know [...]

Lessons for Preventing Website Disasters

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For optimists, disasters and mistakes happen to teach us about prevention. Life is about learning from our mistakes, right? As reported on AZCentral.com, GoDaddy was in hot water for creating a six-hour massive outage for millions of websites because of company infrastructure problems and a router issue. Whether your site was affected or not, the [...]

Five of the Best Minecraft Servers

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Minecraft’s a pretty awesome game to play, but what makes it truly awesome- what makes the game truly enjoyable- is the online play. There’s something uniquely satisfying about logging in and seeing an entire city stretching out before you, with the knowledge that you helped build it. There’s something undeniably enjoyable about collaborating with a [...]

“Scareware” Scammer Gets Caught, Fined over $160 Million

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This one will make today a happy Thursday for you. “Scareware” is stuff you see on the internet where people are literally tricked into buying certain software that supposedly ‘protects’ your computer from ‘bad stuff’ when in fact it really does nothing at all. And yeah, this has been going on a good long time. [...]

Welcome To The Future: U.S. Presidential Debates Will Be Live-Streamed

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Some of you upon read of the title will think, “Haven’t U.S. Presidential debates been live-streamed before?” Amazingly, no, they haven’t. This time around will be the first time. Concerning the previous presidential debates, yes there was archived online video for download, but it was never live-streamed. How and where will the live streams be [...]

IE10-Only Version Of MSN.com Is Coming

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Video: The All New MSN for Windows 8 I am one of those people that sincerely believes there should be absolutely no very-specific software requirements to view any web site, nor require any very-specific software to access certain web site features. In other words, I like web sites that are as “open” in design and [...]

Three Free, Easy To Use Programs for Internet Privacy

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The recent fiasco with SOPA and PIPA, and now ACTA has thrown into sharp relief the question of online privacy and freedom. Who controls our personal data? Who has access to it? How do we know someone’s not tracking us online? Who can we actually trust? What can we actually share?  These questions were already [...]

Maybe It’s Time Facebook Started Using “Deferred” Likes

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The mass-deleting of fake likes and fans has officially begun on Facebook. This is something that was reported several months back, but as of now it’s gone into full swing. Something that Facebook should do is employ the use of deferrment, and if they haven’t done so, they should. On most major webmail systems, there [...]

Ten League of Legends Hotkeys You Might Not Know About

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League of Legends is one of the most popular Free To Play games around – and why shouldn’t it be? Riot games, the company behind the the spiritual successor to the Warcraft 3 mod “Defense of The Ancients,” has rather outdone themselves. With new content every few weeks, a huge roster of characters to choose [...]

How (And When) You Should Use The Block Feature In Hotmail

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For this tutorial I’m going to how to block in the Hotmail email system. The main difference between filtering and blocking is that filtering allows the email to be received normally (even if filtered to the Trash folder) but blocking does not. When you block an address, the receiving mail server literally rejects it, a [...]

Using Google Docs For Collaborative Projects

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Most of you have probably heard of Google Docs by now, right? You know, the online, free-ware alternative to Microsoft Office? Given that it’s completely online and all files are stored in the cloud it shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of you that it’s pretty much perfect for working on collaborative projects. Got [...]

How To Search Ended eBay Auctions

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The first question you have is, “What’s the point of searching ended eBay auctions?” There’s actually a very good reason for it. Whether you’re a buyer or a seller, it’s important to see how much a particular item sold for before going to buy or sell the same item yourself. I’ll give a simple example. [...]

Unboxing Videos Are Stupid. Don’t Do Them.

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This will probably be the only time (at least from me) that you’ll ever see an unboxing video here. Why? Because unboxing videos are stupid, always have been stupid and always will be stupid. Unboxing videos either show the product barely being used or not used at all. Little to no information is given that [...]

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