This is not an article about mobile internet but rather the non-mobile/semi-mobile side of things, which for all intents and purposes means laptop or netbook connected via wireless networking. Note before continuing: If you happen to live in a northern US state where it’s still fairly cold right now, you can still computer outside somewhat. I’ll...

Say "640k", and it strikes fear into even the most manliest of men, because in the way MS-DOS memory management works, you are more or less guaranteed to run out of conventional memory, a.k.a. base memory. If you ever wondered why you don’t see more videos on YouTube or like video sharing sites that show retro PCs with MS-DOS using the internet,...

So, you just started playing online, huh? Noob. Wait, didn’t you know? You’re supposed to be an expert the second you start a game. If you aren’t, you should just uninstall. In case you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic. Unfortunately, a great percentage of the LoL community isn’t. I get it. It’s a competitive game....

A complaint that at this point is close to two decades old is the lack of proper etiquette (which used to be called "netiquette") and decorum by most new users to the internet. It’s safe to say we’ll never get back to how the internet used to be in terms of etiquette and network standards, especially considering most of you who read this...

My Whirlpool clothes washer is obsolete now as it has been running Windows 98 for years, so I decided to "upgrade" it to Windows XP:Also note that I "upgraded" the CPU from an Intel Celeron M to an Intel Atom. I noticed my clothes are now are washed with far fewer file fragments (with use of NTFS detergent), and that service packs...

If you shop online at all, you need to have your address listed correctly. If you don’t, sooner or later something you ordered in the mail won’t make it to your residence. Sometimes the dumbest things can cause the things you order delivered not to be delivered, even if it’s as simple as separating one address line from another because you...

Whenever I list anything that’s classified as a toy for the computer geek crowd, I try my best to show things that are actually usable, even if only to a small degree. Geeks, after all, are a practical bunch. With that said, here are 5 toys that are both cool and usable. 1. USB Memory Brick ThumbdrivesWhere to get it: Here These are both functional and...

You’re back from a long day at the office and life sucks. Your back hurts, your wrists feel like stiff, numb boards of wood, and your eyes feel like they’re just about ready to pop out of your skull.  As an added bonus, you can’t move your neck without sharp pain shooting through your body. Computers are great, but the health problems that can...

This is an example of where the internet did things wrong. There are a lot of things it does right, but the stinkers stick out, and this is one of them. Originally, any system that required a user ID asked you what you wanted for a screen name. Simple systems only allowed letters and/or numbers. Advanced ones allowed letters, numbers, dashes (-) and underscores...

Something that continually makes an appearance in modern gaming (usually with larger titles) are Easter eggs that feature some sort of retro computing thing. Maybe it’s an interface, maybe it’s a whole mini-system of sorts, etc. Here’s an example of retro in a modern game:With the non-gaming stuff we do with computers, as much as the industry...