It’s no good creating a secure password if the website you’ve signed up for doesn’t bother protecting your information. Sadly, it seems as though a lot of people have been learning this the hard way, of late. The number of password leaks that have surfaced just over the past two months has been positively staggering, [...]
Something I find funny is how the internet throws out words and terms where the assumption is made that everyone is supposed to magically know exactly what the word/term means and how it’s applied. “Hashtag” is something which is a combination of two words, hash and tag. The hash part represents the octothorpe (#) which [...]
The term “Big Data” is now used to basically describe a service where you put your trust and faith into a third party to house all your digital stuff. Or to put it simply, “Cloud”. Most of you know Big Data as services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 and Microsoft Skydrive. Free Big Data [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s not enough to just have a secure password, sadly. Even if you have the most brilliantly designed, complicated password in the world, it can still be cracked. No system is secure, and all it takes is a determined enough hacker or a key-logger. Thankfully, most businesses seem to understand that and provide their users [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
