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 [...]
Anyone who’s ever written a paper or article at a post-secondary institution knows the drill. Don’t use Wikipedia. It’s nearly an unspoken rule, a social norm. Some professors will dock a letter grade if their students use it. Others will go even further, giving the student a zero – maybe even expelling them from their [...]
There are a few web sites out there (Flickr being one of them) where if you wanted to sign up a new account, there is the option to use your existing Facebook account to do it with. I strongly recommend against using a Facebook login to sign up for anything with because at some point [...]
Most of you out there have at least two email accounts. You have your primary account for all your important stuff and the “throwaway” account for everything else. It used to be almost a requirement to maintain two email accounts as a spam countermeasure. However these days you’re far better off using email aliases just [...]
Hey there, ladies and gents. Today, I’m going to toss a little scenario at your feet and I’m sure you’ve experienced it before. It’s an ordinary day and you’re there going about your merry business doing what you ordinarily do on an ordinary day. At some point, like hundreds of millions of others, you decide [...]
Everyone uses an online map from time to time, because every though pretty much everyone has GPS today (be it a standalone unit or in the smartphone), seeing the map on a larger screen, as in your computer monitor, is a lot easier to deal with. I find myself using Bing Maps more these days [...]
Here’s a situation that’s happened to everyone at some point or another: You’re in the middle of composing an email, and something out-of-the-blue happens. The power goes out, or your browser locks up. Or maybe it was a goof on your part where you closed the browser or hit the “back” button by mistake. No [...]
If you subscribe to the PCMech newsletter, in last week’s rant I wrote about how I quit cloud storage completely. Yes, I still house my email “in the cloud”, so to speak, but as far as file storage services like Dropbox and SkyDrive, I quit those completely. Cloud storage invented this need to the effect [...]
Twitter’s been gaining a lot of momentum lately. And why shouldn’t it be? It’s the essence of the modern social network – a constant, online stream of people’s thoughts, opinions, and ideas. A means of sharing cool links and information in a quick, easily-read format. There’s a lot of reasons Twitter’s popular but we’re not [...]
Since I know a few who read this will probably get instantly confused here, what I’m specifically talking about is www.outlook.com web-based email and not the Microsoft Outlook software product. Yeah, I know, Microsoft did a dumb again by naming two products almost the exact same thing even though they’re almost completely different from each [...]
Did you know Bing Maps has the ability to show coordinates for easy-use in your GPS? It’s true. For the longest time there was no way to get coordinates out of Bing Maps, but now all it takes is a single-right-click and you can get coordinate information quickly and easily. See video below to see [...]
The new Digg (which I suppose you could call a news aggregator site?) is now online, dubbed the “v1″ system as it is a total rewrite. Admittedly, I like the design. A lot. It’s clean, simple and easy-to-use. There is no guesswork involved when using the Digg site, and no learning curve. There is, however, [...]
For some reason, you want to erase your online tracks. We’re not going to discuss why – I’m sure you have an excellent reason to do so. The process involved in deleting your history and all the files associated with it depends entirely on what browser you happen to be using. We’ll start with Google [...]
Netflix, as most subscribers to that service area aware, is Silverlight powered. And as any Linux user who has tried to get Silverlight working on that particular operating environment knows, it’s not easy. Not impossible as there are workarounds, but not easy. As to the question of whether Netflix will ever support Linux? Nope. The [...]
