You can tell a lot about a person through observation. How they dress, how they behave in public, how they talk, how they move…and apparently, how they surf. Well, sort of. According to a study which will be published in an upcoming issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, one’s browsing habits on the web are largely indicative of one’s...

It still floors me how many people don’t seem to realize the most fundamental detail of the Internet is that, no matter what you do, no matter how you act, no matter what you say…chances are you’ve got an audience. Say the wrong (or right) thing, and suddenly the world knows who you are.  Post an inflammatory status message or an embarrassing...

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 class. But why such...

I think you’d be hard pressed to find a single human being who isn’t aware of YouTube on at least some level. As more or less the most popular video streaming site on the ‘net, it’s spawned a wide array of copycats and poor imitations. At the same time, it’s caused the birth of a number of rather excellent addons, features, and...

In this edition of Layman’s Terms, we’ll take a look at a few more definitions related to the web. Specifically, we’re going to look at some of the languages in which the Internet is coded; a few of the languages which makes it what it is. HTML: “HTML” stands for “Hyper Text Markup Language.” Now, that’s not really...

You’ve probably heard someone trumpeting the latest indie game. You’ve probably caught wind of the Humble Indie Bundle. You’ve probably seen someone advertising an indie title on Kickstarter. If you use Steam, you might have even seen EA’s Indie Bundle (they’re doing it wrong, by the way). So what is an independent game? Just what...

Here’s the deal- you turn on your 360, with the intention of connecting it to the Internet. Maybe you want to watch something on Netflix, maybe you want to frag a few guys online…really, the reason you’re doing it is irrelevant, given the fact that you can’t actually get online. As with Windows when something goes wrong, the 360′s...

Gamers do the VoIP (Voice-over-IP) thing a lot because it’s easier to talk rather than type because the hands are busy playing whatever game is being played. While there are many ways to do VoIP (Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, etc.), the problem is that most VoIP servers cost money. A 15-user Ventrilo server for example is 6 bucks a month. Cheap, yes, but whenever...

Computer problems messed with me on the laptop, so this week I took to my iPhone to record this week’s “Inside The Insider”. I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week.Thanks to everybody. And, if you’re not yet an...

KMail is one of those email clients that’s really easy to miss, mainly because it’s been around for so long. People hear KMail and think, "Oh, right – that’s the KDE mail client thing in Linux that’s been around forever." Yes, it’s been around a long time, but it’s arguably in the top 3 graphical email clients...