On the YouTube.com web site, every account has the ability to be configured not to play HD-enabled video by default:…and this is good. Even if you have a fast internet connection, I recommend using the slow-connection option because it makes the YouTube experience much, much quicker. However, the same can’t be said for other sites on the...

A Google Doodle is when Google changes its home page logo for something that recognizes and/or celebrates a specific events in history. One of the more notable they’ve done in a long time is a doodle on Star Trek’s 46th Anniversary of their first broadcast:This is one of the best they’ve ever done and there are several easter eggs in it (if...

Fact: 99.9% of you use email the wrong way. Fact: Most of you are forced to use email the wrong way. Fact: The reason we use email the wrong way is mainly Microsoft’s fault. I say mainly because Lotus (IBM) is also partially at fault as well. How email used to work when it was done the right way Originally, email was designed to be used conversation-style....

For a small while now there has been the ability to connect a Y! Mail account using IMAP, even for free accounts. As for why you can do it now and not before is because many mobile users prefer to access their mail via IMAP because it makes for easier synchronization, and also want the same ability on the desktop as well. Now before continuing, in my examination...

Many people develop viruses and they do it for a wide range of reasons. Maybe they’re looking to mine personal and financial information. Perhaps they’re trying to set up a zombie botnet to execute an attack of some kind. Could be they’re trying to force people into purchasing software. Or of course, they might just want to watch the world burn...

I have a really old Hotmail account (registered in 1998 if you can believe it) that I login to periodically just to keep the account active. When I go in there I check the Junk folder just to see if I get any legitimate emails got dumped there by mistake (which doesn’t happen too often, a nod to Hotmail’s spam filtering system). HOWEVER… I am...

If you’re going to be gallivanting about the internet, you’re going to need to have a halfway decent password to protect your account from being hacked. Now, to be fair, most of the time, when an account or service is broken into, the fault lies solely with the user. Maybe they didn’t scan often enough for viruses, spyware, and malware....

I find the term online stalker (or stalked online or online stalking or whatever other way the word stalk is used with online) to be rather interesting because it doesn’t mean the same today as it did ten years ago. In 2002, the mere mention of someone “stalking someone else online” struck terror into people’s hearts. Well, not anymore....

A few years back you may have remembered all the hub-bub concerning the “white space” frequencies of what was formerly used for the television band spectrum, which Big Telco, Big Cable and a few others (even Google) fought each other for, tooth and nail. Well, it’s now 2012 and there’s this thing now called “Super Wi-Fi”. This...

I’ll be frank with you guys: the job market sucks. Finding decent, paying work is a herculean undertaking these days, even if you’ve got a degree that’s supposed to guarantee you a cushy spot. There’s a good chance that those of you who are currently unemployed (or underemployed, as it were) have been doing daily searches on all the...