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 [...]
Without Shockwave Flash, internet surfing would be a dull experience. Although it runs fine in other browsers, Adobe’s Shockwave application has not been in perfect harmony with Google Chrome. It shakes up Chrome by crashing frequently and disrupting any multimedia content streaming at the moment. Unlike other browsers Google Chrome includes an integrated version of [...]
A couple Tuesdays back, I had an important meeting I had to attend. There’s a big charity event that I’m helping to run coming up in the very near future, and we needed to go before a committee to plead our case. We needed to show to them that it was worth granting us the [...]
I’m sure more than a few of you have seen “Sent from my iPad” or “Sent from my iPhone” or “Sent from my [insert other smartphone here]” taglines in emalis and possibly forum posts. Personally, I think the best answer to that ridiculousness is to use a tagline stating you sent the message from an [...]
It’s a pretty awesome time to be a gamer. Not only do we have epic releases like Skyrim, Arkham City, and Dark Souls to keep us busy, but more games than ever before have picked up on the latest phenomenon in the gaming industry – the “Free To Play” craze. Hey, I’m not knocking the [...]
Bill Keller – a columnist for New York Times, former The Times editor and one of the authorities on American policy making – recently launched a blitzkrieg against the White House through his Twitter account. He targeted their strategy-making in one of the most extroverted acts of criticizing the government in recent memory. He also [...]
It still floors me how many people don’t seem to realize the most fundamental detail of the Internet is that, no matter what you do, no matter how you act, no matter what you say…chances are you’ve got an audience. Say the wrong (or right) thing, and suddenly the world knows who you are. Post [...]
Before you start reading this article, feast your eyes on this. It’s the results of a fairly recent series of Windows browser speed and power tests carried out by Life Hacker, in which they pitted all of the top browsers (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer) against one another in order to determine which one runs [...]
Making the rounds is a new web site called Terms of Service; Didn’t Read (which is somewhat similar to TOSSOS) that puts a rating from A to E (E being worst) on basically how bad you’re going to get f&#%#d concerning your content and activity on particular web sites. I can save everyone the trouble [...]
Configuring your router and setting up a network can be a bit of a pain sometimes- particularly if you’re planning on running applications which require specific ports to be opened. Thankfully, there exists a plethora of online tools to make your life easier. Let’s get started, shall we? Port Forward: We’ve covered Port Forward before, [...]
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the best when it comes to grammar. Some grammar Nazi readers here have pointed that out on more than one occasion. Three free online grammar checkers are Grammarly, SpellChecker.net and GrammarCheck.net. Do they work? Let’s find out. Grammarly didn’t like what I had to check… …because [...]
I’ve always been faintly fascinated with the amount of ire folks on the ‘net are capable of displaying. In a lot of ways, it’s almost as if, one some level, they don’t realize that they’re dealing with another human being. It’s as though they somehow disconnect themselves from everybody else, and as such, feel no [...]
For me, social media started with MySpace. That company was founded in 2003, but I remember in 2005 when everyone started getting in on it. I remember the heyday of MySpace, the heyday of Twitter, the colossal failure of Google Buzz, identi.ca (which still exists), Bebo (which AOL dumped), and of the present social-flavor-of-the-moment, Facebook. [...]
One of the most popular articles here that I wrote back in very-early 2010 is The Mysterious 1e100.net. You might want to read that before reading this rest of this one for reference. That article has been seen many thousands of times from people wanting to know what the hell [subdomain].1e100.net addresses keep popping up [...]
As time goes on, the internet isn’t necessarily getting larger, but there are more people connected to it and that number will continue to grow exponentially. This means that it’s going to be tougher as times goes on to get a short, easy-to-remember username. A solution to this issue is to do what the pre-internet [...]
