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Construct Your Online Identity Carefully

From teens to 59-year-old pedophiles, every Tom, Dick, and Harry is starting to establish their online identity through seemingly sophisticated methods such as blogs, social networks, and forums.  The Internet is literally flooded with free programs and methods through which one can build their own personalized web-space and use said web-space to communicate with friends, [...]

What You Need To Know About Buying Stuff Online

For a long, long time, shopping was very easy. Go to the store, look at the product, look at the price tag, maybe try the item, and then purchase it if you saw it fit. Often times, you would be able to demo the product for several days before making a decision to buy it. [...]

How To Tell Who Sends Quality Newsletters

We’re all familiar with online newsletters — in fact, many of you might even be reading this article on one — and we’re all familiar with junk mail, not only the discount drug variety, but also the repetitive banter and useless kind. These are the emails which are not simply spam, as they come from an established online source, but are the emails which cross the line into being pointless and uninformative advertisements, doing nothing but discrediting the emigrating source and filling our inboxes.

Are Real-Life Conversations Eating The Dust of Social Networking?

With Social Networking becoming an integral part of life for many, what effects are there in society today? Has social networking become a new form a communication, or perhaps do the implications of it extend far beyond that?

Use Online Forums Instead of Annoying Phone Support

Tired of fumbling through tiers of tech support operators on the phone to answer a question? There are certainly better ways to find an answer.

Use The Simplest Solution

With growing sophistication of technology, it is vital to keep a simple-minded approach even when tasks seem to grow more complex.

What Happened to Product Knowledge?

Taking a trip down to the retail store for computer hardware isn’t helpful anymore.

Protect Your Electronics From Electricity

Although electronics are powered by electricity, power surges can wreak havoc with computers, TVs, networking devices and more

Is Google Invading Your Privacy?

Google’s Street View tool first offers waves of delight, shortly followed by the realization of the invasion of privacy

Internet Taxation May Be Coming

Laws preventing taxation on the Internet are up for renewal and there’s a chance they may not be. What does this mean for you? Would it change the Internet as we see it today?

The Future of Touch Screens From Microsoft

Microsoft revealed a secret project under development for the past 5 years. Will it catch on?

Does Everyone Have a Right to the Internet?

Is the Internet truly for everyone? Discover why the versatile universal medium is only in the hands of the wealthy.

Preventative Measures For Copyrighted Material on MySpace and YouTube

Ryan takes a look at the concept and possible solution behind preventing the posting of unauthorized copyrighted material on MySpace and YouTube

Modernizing Today’s Examinations

Kram discusses the outdated methods of standardized testing and how they may be hurting students

James Burgett: Saving Our Planet One Computer at a Time

Ryan takes a look at a person responsible for recycling unwanted computers and giving them to those who need them.

The Net of Failure

Kram takes a look at product failures and how they actually improved things

Technology as a Lifeline

Ryan takes a look at how technology helped friends and family through the Virginia Tech massacre.

When is Old, Old?

Kram discusses upgrades and how to determine when they’re necessary–especially Windows Vista.

Hacking The Apple TV

Ryan discusses Apple’s latest hot product and the questions about modifying/hacking the device.

Accountability in Today’s Internet

Kram discusses common decency and accountability for what people say on the internet–it’s not as anonymous as you think

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