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...

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 funding to run things. In order to help ourselves along, I brought with me a...

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 item that would be...

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 whole deal. I think it’s pretty awesome...

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 defended the WikiLeaks,...

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 an inflammatory status message or an embarrassing...

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 the fastest and the best. The...

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 of reading through any of those sites with a...

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, but...

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...