For those that remember internet in the late 1990s, you remember your dialup being slow, there was no such thing as tabbed browsing, web sites were clunky/cumbersome and difficult to navigate, low screen resolutions of the time meant lots and lots of scrolling, and well, you get the idea. Thankfully we don’t have to deal with that anymore, right? Wrong. A...

I use Google Reader for all of my RSS feeds. While I love the ability to open it from both my home and work computer and have all my items available, one thing it really lacks is the ability to easily ‘reorganize’ your feeds. Moving items is simple enough as you just need to drag and drop, but when it comes to renaming, the process is not...

Yes, I am talking about that MSN.com. The web site that has the blue background. The one with the text that’s way too small. The one that the only reason anybody ever has it as their home page is because they don’t know how to change it to something else. That being the case, MSN’s upcoming changes are sure to get noticed. The logo changes...

It’s rare these days when I come across any app that makes me say, "Wow, now this is useful!" Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop is one of them. When it comes to email, there are many who prefer the convenience of web-based mail but wish there was a local application that looked and acted like a mail client. Zimbra Desktop is it. This software...

If you are like most people, you might eat out several times a week (if not every day) at work. While you may be eating cheap, spending ~$5 a day can really add up. To see how much this is costing you as opposed to bringing your lunch, take a look at the Brown Bag Savings Calculator. When you just play around with the numbers you can really see the true impact...

By far, the most popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Firefox. While these browsers are perfectly suitable for everyday use, if you want to see how they stack up against other browsers then check out Wikipedia’s browser comparison page. This page includes just about every browser you can think of and compares the native functionality of each. This...

Remember Geocities? That online community with free hosting that so many people (including myself) started our first website on. Did you know that PCMech.com got its start on Geocities? Back before I even owned the domain, the concept behind this site was run on GeoCities. At SiliconValley/Lakes/3553/, to be exact. Well, Yahoo bought Geocities. It went nowhere....

Bandwidth restriction by the ISP directly is something most U.S. users don’t have to deal with – yet. But other countries have had to deal with monthly bandwidth limitations more or less since broadband was first introduced in their part of the world. Here in the U.S., Comcast is gunning to impose monthly data restrictions widely, however...

Knowing how to check the source, as in the raw "code," of an email is important because there will be times when you need to do it. Why? To check authenticity of an email. Spam and phishing emails are getting more tricky to identify all the time, and your best weapon against this is knowing how to check the source of an email. Unfortunately it is the...

If there was any universal immutable truth to the internet, it’s that things vanish from it all the time. Those pages you bookmarked last year? They may be gone. Those forums posts that contained a wealth of useful information? They may be gone as well. There are several different ways to archive web pages. You could use ScreenGrab for Firefox. But the...