Some of the larger offices in parts of the world want email to completely go away, such as the CEO of Atos who absolutely wants a zero-email policy implemented. The linked article states that at that company, only 10% of the messages are "useful", way too much time is spent going through hundreds of messages, and that a SMS/forum/instant-message system...

Internet back in the late 90s was a completely different online world compared to now. Back then, terms were used like "the information superhighway", "cyberspace" and the like in a desperate attempt to describe to the masses what the internet was. The way people find things online is still primarily based on search engines; in fact,...

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The 7 services the Goog is killing off are Google Bookmark Lists, Google Friend Connect, Google Gears, Google Search Timeline, Google Wave, Knol, Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C). Rather than go through each of these one by one, I’m only going to concentrate on the ones I actually used, even if only very briefly. Friend Connect admittedly had...

Most of us don’t give a second thought about browsing with JavaScript completely turned off. For those of you out there who are very anti-JavaScript, you’re probably using NoScript for selective enabling/disabling of JS based on what site you’re using. I wanted to see however which webmail would work with no JS enabled whatsoever. Why do this?...

I know and you know that Netflix recently upped their prices and lost a whole bunch of customers because of it. Even so, it’s still a darn good service if you use it online-only. Unlimited streaming from Netflix is 8 bucks a month, which in all honesty is pretty good. Also, the first month is free so you can try it out for 30 days. Now before I give you...

A complaint I’ve had for a good long time concerning any web site where you post anything be it status updates, photos or the like is that there is no way to go to a specific part of the site, hit a button and download a copy of everything in your account for archive purposes. Fortunately, Google has stepped up to the plate and truly does have a 1-click...

Outside of PCMech, our illustrious leader Dave has his own Facebook public page and a Google+ page where he interacts with his fans. As for myself, I do the same thing to interact with my fans. Dave’s audience is primarily a mostly-25-and-up entrepreneur (as in pro-blogging) crowd and mine is a mostly-25-and-under entertainment (as in music fans) crowd. If...

These days a lot of people feel more than just a little uncomfortable giving out their credit card info online when making a purchase, and don’t want to go the PayPal route either. You’ve heard time and time again, "Get a prepaid credit card!" Okay then, how? I’ll tell you how. Knowing the difference between a locked and unlocked...

[Insert opening theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey here, with "THE DAWN OF E-MAIL" subtitle, and jumping dial-up modems instead of monkeys.] In the beginning, email was all plain text… …and the way in which it worked was that the displayed (meaning the one you would see) header on reply would look something like this: Steal my cheeseburgers...