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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Big changes are afoot around here. And, if you’re on our mailing list, you probably already know that. I’m about to send out The Insider, Issue #2 to members. In this video, I tell you what’s inside this issue, and I send out a “thank you” to the 44 people who signed up in the [...]
A Jump List in Windows 7 is one of the best and most underrated features of the Windows 7 desktop experience. They’re ridiculously easy to use and all you have to do is make use of your right mouse button for app buttons in the taskbar area. Check out the video below to see how [...]
I’ve talked about the Popcorn email client before but never actually showed a video explaining how it works. Popcorn is as minimalist as you can get with a GUI-based mail client; the only way to go more minimal would be to use a text-based client. While true this client only supports POP (with or without [...]
Making the rounds this week is a bunch of news stories going on about the fact that the Microsoft Windows XP operating system is officially 10 years old. I can’t say "Remember when we used to use that Windows?" because a ton of you out there are still using it. What has made XP such [...]
GIMP is a great free graphics editor. Complicated to the new user, but still great nonetheless. One of the easier ways to give a logo or even simple text a bit of splash and flavor is to use the Perspective Tool; this is built-in to GIMP. Check out the video below to see how easy [...]
