Whoever claims that it’s not possible to be addicted to a social network is either lying or uninformed. Social media addiction is, like Internet addiction, a very real, very troubling phenomenon. It’s not ‘all in the head’ of the addicted users (even if it were, would that not constitute a behavioral addiction?). Believe it or not,...

It’s long been maintained that social media (and really, the Internet in general) is quite possibly the most distracting technology ever designed. It’s also been maintained that these distractions wreak havoc with our productivity, and are more or less destroying the workday of more than one person. Microsoft’s recently carried out a study,...

The Internet is simultaneously one of the greatest inventions ever forged by human hands and one of the worst. It’s a tool that allows us access to infinite information and entertainment, and opens up entirely new avenues of employment, but at the same time, can cause productivity to drop directly through the floor if you aren’t careful. It’s...

We all know it’s quite possibly- and actually fairly easy – to use an Xbox 360 controller with your PC. It’s really just a matter of plugging it in, and downloading a few drivers from Microsoft. What many of you might not know is that you can actually take things a step further- you can use your controller as a mouse and keyboard array, as...

Facebook’s not exactly the poster child of productivity. Quite the contrary, it’s one of the biggest time-wasters in the world, with hundreds of pieces of content and a whole plethora of time-wasting social games. What some people might not know is exactly how distracting it (and many other social media websites) really are – and just how much...

In the State of Texas, certain schools are requiring students to carry ID cards that have RFID chips embedded in them so there whereabouts can be monitored. Note on linked article above: The title of it is totally misleading, as the students are not being “micro-chipped”; it’s just a card and not an implant. As far as children in schools being...

For those not in the know, “WX” when referred to as a band means “weather”, so I’m talking about portable radios that can receive the AM, FM and WX bands. The deal when it comes to a portable radio is that everyone should own one for the simple reason that when the power is out, radio is quite literally your only way of getting...

Microsoft Office 2000 is, as far as I’m concerned, the best release of MSO ever to exist. Why? It’s lightning fast, has unbelievably good backward compatibility, and as you’ll see in the above video, it’s actually...

The initial release of 1995 happened on Thursday, 24 August 1995, which at the time of this writing was exactly 17 years, 1 month, 2 weeks, and 3 days ago. I can do this math easily because of Windows 7 Calculator, by the way:Gotta love Windows 7 Calculator. Anyway, I remember when Microsoft Windows 95 was new, and there’s been a whole bunch of stuff...

Game Selection: Winner: Steam While it’s certainly something of an unfair comparison at this point (after all, Origin’s still very much the new kid on the block as far as digital distribution’s concerned), it’s still something a lot of people are judging Origin on. while Steam has a massive library comprised of thousand upon thousands of...