Yesterday by chance I logged into a Yahoo! Mail account I hadn’t used in a while, and lo and behold there was a notice from Yahoo! that stated GeoCities would be officially closing October 26. Many of you will think, "Yeah? So?" The deal here is that it’s a final notice, as in the last one. For anybody that uses GeoCities that didn’t...

Yesterday the computer mouse – something we all have – officially turned 40. If you want to check out the history of the mouse, Gearlog has got you covered. But for a PCMech article I’m going to throw in my personal experiences with Ye Olde Computer Mouse. The Big Question: Is the plural form “mice” or “mouses”? Answer:...

The internet as we know it today predominantly runs on Linux. There’s an extremely high probability that the internet connection you’re using right now is connected thru a Linux server – and routed thru many other Linux servers along the way. Below is a graph showing the market share for top servers across all domains from August 1995 to...

In a few short months it’s going to be 2009, and a ton of stuff has changed in the world of computing over the past almost-ten years. Some of the modern advancements have proven to be a notable improvement while others still produce the same crapola they did nearly ten years ago. In this installment we’ll be looking at something everyone has in their...

Literally defined, a "killer application" a.k.a. a "killer app" is software that is revolutionary and popular (must be both). In layman’s terms, a killer app is the software giving you the reason to use a computer (or possibly a specific computer) in the first place. The history of killer apps basically have two generations, that being...