If you post videos to YouTube, you most likely keep local copies of your videos and back them up somewhere. However there are times when the videos you keep locally may be lost for some reason. Fortunately you can download backup copies of the videos you posted to YouTube, if you know where to find it. For whatever reason, YouTube hides the download option for...

If you’ve ever participated in a LAN party, they’re pretty awesome. A bunch of people get together with computers and one box acts as the gaming server. Lag is basically nonexistent, and that’s just plain cool. You may have the idea that you want to run your own public, as in "public to the internet", gaming server. I recommend...

Steve Jobs has died. He left a large and positive mark on the world. Whether you use an Apple product or not, his vision has had a HUGE influence on the entire world of computing. As Apple said, the world is immeasurably better because of Steve. Rest in peace,...

More people are reading books on computers, phones and gadgets these days, but at times it can be a hassle finding a good selection, much less a free selection of good eBooks. One place that has a good wide selection of books to read – all for free – is Project Gutenburg. The area you’ll probably want to start in is the Top 100, which list the...

Most people know about CTRL+Plus, CTRL+Minus and CTRL+0 (zero) to increase, decrease and reset font sizes when using a web browser, but with the Firefox extension Stylish, you can not only customize size but also which font to use on a per-website basis. Check out the video below for details on how it’s...

If you’re in business for yourself, but find that you can’t compete with the prices other businesspeople are selling what you want to sell on eBay, your best option is to attract regional (as in local) clients only. Local works, and people like local. Ask any local business owner. The best way to attract local clients from the internet is still by...

If you’ve ever been on the phone with a friend or family member and are trying to support some computer problem they’re having, you need certain information to help you help them. Is there a ridiculously easy way to do this? Yes, there’s the Support Details web site. It really doesn’t get any easier than Support Details. Have the person...

So, you’ve got this awesome website that you visit a lot. More than any other page you happen to surf to. Trouble is, this website tends to favor a ridiculous, unnecessarily long URL (something like http://www.bobssuperawesomefavoritewebsiteintheuniverse.com). Typing something like that in every time? That’s a pain. Unless you favor carpal tunnel...

A problem that quite a few people deal with routinely are webmail servers where the outbound filter is overly aggressive. Outbound mail is either deferred or the system prompts you "enter this code to continue" crapola just to send mail. Either way, it’s very annoying. Here’s an example of how this problem manifests itself: Let’s say...

To be internet-social basically means to have a shareable public profile with contact connection options. If you don’t understand what I mean by that, you will in a moment. The profile is easy enough to understand. The contact connection options means whatever system you decide to use has some way of people adding you to a friend or ‘follow’...