If you follow tech news at all, for the past month you have probably seen plenty of the Apple vs. Adobe Flash battle royale. While Apple is standing behind it’s claim of choosing exclude Flash on their iDevices for stability reasons, an innovative group of developers appear to have come up with a solution which runs Flash via JavaScript: Smokescreen. While...

Due to it’s popularity, Facebook has become a breeding ground for widespread malware and phishing attacks. One such vehicle for these attacks is the use of Facebook Apps. Apps can be particularly dangerous because they can tap into your personal information and hand it over to the app’s developer to use for who knows what. For a good tip on how to...

If you want the best to two worlds: the power and features of Microsoft Office and the collaboration tools of Google Docs, then bind them together with OffiSync. OffiSync Supercharges Microsoft Office, enabling users to significantly improve the way they create, collaborate and share their documents by integrating Microsoft Office with Google Docs, and Google...

As many readers may know, I am not a big believer in anti-virus programs as an essential program for computer protection, however I ultimately had to cave due to customer VPN requirements and installed Microsoft Security Essentials. But enough about me and onto an interesting article with some statistics about the effectiveness of AV programs. From the...

Every so often retailers run specials where they give away something for one reason or another. For example, Starbucks gave away a free coffee on election day to those who voted. It is hard to keep up with these giveaways as usually you only hear about them through the grapevine. So to take a break from the norm, I thought I would pass along an article which...

As you probably know, Facebook has been in the news recently being hammered for their apparent lack of concern regarding user privacy. While Facebook is responding to these issues, it raises the question: would you use a Facebook alternative where your data is controlled by you? Such a task is the goal of an in-progress open source project named Diaspora. The...

As a way to make pages load quicker in your browser, many sites utilize a paging method (next/previous page, jump to page X, etc.). This makes sense from both a server side (decreased bandwidth usage) and the client side (increase load time), but it requires user intervention to load the next page. Firefox users who want to have this content automatically...

Something I do quite a bit is email links to interesting articles I come across to people I think would find it interesting. While you can manually copy and paste the URL and paste it into an email, I use the built in browser function:Firefox: Right click on the page and select “Send Link”. Internet Explorer: From the Page menu, select “Send...

If your browser of choice is Internet Explorer 8 and you use Gmail as your email client, it makes sense to integrate the two. Using the Gmail Accelerator, a new option is added when you right click on links and/or highlighted text which reads “Send to Gmail”. This function does exactly what you would expect:Creates a new Gmail message Sets the...

If you run a website and have to tweak DNS records every now and then, you probably know that the changes can take up to several days to go through the entire internet. While this can be inconvenient, it is especially annoying if you want the changes to go through for you immediately. If you are using OpenDNS, you can force this change to go through almost...