Question: What’s the fastest webmail on the planet? Answer: The type where you host it yourself. An often overlooked way of doing webmail (only because most people aren’t aware of it) is using a web hosted solution. This is where you register your own dot-com/net/org, then use your web host’s webmail system in order to send and receive...

Automotive GPS devices while used by many have the issue of difficulty of being able to edit locations on a desktop PC level. There are tools available such as Bing Maps, Google Maps and Google Earth which allow for some fine tuning, but the way in which those sites work is still a bit on the difficult side. Nuvi Editor on the other hand is very easy. It makes...

A lot of people are disliking YouTube these days. If it’s not for their ever-present "scheduled maintenance", it’s for the continually tightening grip on what is considered "acceptable" content and what isn’t. And let’s not forget that the community (and it’s a stretch to call it that) is simply awful. There are...

Hate Facebook? MySpace seems old hat now? Want something that’s easy to use and gives you instant message capability too? Here are three you can try out. You’ve most likely never heard of these, but hey, that’s half the fun because being early in sites like these means you’ll probably get more e-popular. All three of these sites have...

aMSN is a free alternative to Windows Live Messenger. The immediate advantage of using aMSN is that it is not as memory-hungry as the client delivered by Microsoft. In addition, as far as an alternative messenger app is concerned, this one more closely resembles traditional-looking clients rather than something totally new that takes you a few days to learn...

Inevitably you’re going to come across some web sites that still (for whatever reason) insist on delivering video content in QuickTime and not Flash. And of course at that point you have to download QuickTime via QuickTime.com. Mac users never have a problem with QuickTime because it works superb with MacOS. However as many people are aware, Apple doesn’t...

I remember using ReactOS a really long time ago and essentially forgot about it. Dave discovered it recently, told me about it, and I said “Oh yeah! I remember that OS.. I guess it’s still alive and kickin’.” Yes it is, however to this day it’s still in alpha stages meaning you absolutely should not use it as your primary OS. What...

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