Buying low and selling high. It has been a basic concept of business since the beginning of time. And the concept doesn’t change when moved to the Internet. Most of the sellers on Ebay are making their money doing exactly this. They buy a product at one price and then resell it on Ebay at [...]

In this video (and the first part of our series), I will introduce the concept of a blog and why it matters.
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Hiper 880W Double Header Power Supply
“Recently, I took a look at the Hiper Type M 580W power supply, and gave it a less than stunning review. Well, it turns out that the 580W unit’s bigger brothers, the Type R II and Type M 880W models, took exception to that; asking me to pick on someone [...]

Eagle Tech N and I Series HDD Enclosures
“You may have seen some Eagle Tech products while shopping the online e-tailers. They certainly offer some attractive prices, especially their power supplies. But Eagle has a fairly wide selection of gear, from chassis to speakers, power supplies to external storage. Today I have for review two of [...]

As with all network devices, once you leave the safety of the local area network (LAN) and connect to the Wide Area Network (WAN) or World Wide Web (WWW) your protocol is subject to attack by the unscrupulous that inhabit the WWW.

In the current version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser (version 2.0.0.12 at the time of this writing), the memory usage is a problem whenever you visit flash-intensive web sites. Mozilla themselves has admitted this. In the current beta version of Firefox 3 there is an add-on called RAMBack that supposedly cures (most of) the [...]

In the following video I show how to write data to a CD and also how to easily create ISO files. I find that working with optical discs in the GNOME environment to be very easy while not require any additional software at all; the provided environment provides everything needed - a nice touch.

It is now much more common than not to have a wireless network in your home. Many broadband ISPs are actually bundling routers with their service that acts as a wireless access point. That means that, chances are, you and many of your neighbors are using wireless.
So, pop open your laptop computer and have it [...]

Keep people from accessing your home network and Internet connection

For those Firefox users who require a daily dose of office humor, be sure to install the Dilbert status bar plugin here: [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3245/]. This plugin will place a small icon in the bottom right corner of Firefox and upon clicking, display the current day’s Dilbert cartoon.
And yes, the garbage man does know everything. ([http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/the_characters/html/character3.html])

When installing new software, most everyone skips over the End User License Agreement (EULA) screen immediately, but doing this can lead to ad-ware being installed on your computer… with your consent. EULAyzer is a nifty little program which scans license agreements for software you are installing and flags any potentially hazardous programs which may be [...]

When plugging in your computer, or any electronic equipment, don’t try to save a few dollars by using a cheap “surge protector”. Most inexpensive (i.e. the $5-$10 variety) units will do virtually nothing during a surge and the extra power will be absorbed by your equipment, potentially causing damage. Instead, invest in a good surge [...]

An overwhelming amount of time, your processor sits idle or consumes roughly 5-10% of its maximum computing power. Put those idle cycles to use for helping cancer research with Folding@Home. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which utilizes your unused processing power to simulate protein folding which, in turn, is being used for cancer research.
You [...]

A Google site (outside of their search engine) with lots of excellent information for relevant questions is Google Answers (http://answers.google.com). On Google Answers, you can ask and get answers to all questions from “what is the name of the song in this commercial?” to “what kind of engine do they put in this tank?”.
What makes [...]

Matt goes through the basic components that are needed for setting up a home network

Odds are you have probably run across Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) already, but if you have not, jump on the bandwagon.
Wikipedia is a completely user maintained (aka Web 2.0) website where the community updates and adds new information. You can find virtually anything from historical events to old TV series on the site in, usually, great detail. [...]