Mobile sites aren’t just for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets as many of them can be accessed on desktop computers easily. Why use any of these? It’s an unfortunate truth that many of us spend a lot of time waiting for stuff to load because of heavy web site scripting. Mobile sites are very light and load very fast. While it’s true...

One of Google Chrome‘s best selling points is speed, and beta 5 of the browser is the fastest yet (for JavaScript anyway) according to Google’s benchmark tests. I’ve never been one to pay attention to benchmarks when it comes to web browsers because it does not take into account ISP connection speed or any extensions/add-ons you have...

The fight for internet video sharing supremacy is a weird one. It’s one of those things that’s ridiculously expensive to maintain, is not profitable, but yet necessary. More on that in a moment. Veoh, a video sharing site most of you probably forgot about until I just mentioned it, is going under. They gave it the good fight, but never seemed to...

If you use a Windows Live email address, that being any address that ends in @hotmail.com, @msn.com or @live.com, you can access the account right now in the Windows Live Mail client. The immediate advantages of using WL Mail:No ads anywhere in the client No ads sent on outgoing mail Allows for local caching of mail for faster access and being able to read...

Most web sites will work with no issue using Firefox 3 or Internet Explorer 8. But there will be times you encounter a web page that will instantly crash your browser. One such example is crappy MySpace pages. It is very common to find pages with the following junk in it:Animated background graphic Animated Flash graphics Auto-play music player Other...

For those of you out there who choose to use a traditional email client with IMAP to connect to Gmail (of which there are many of you), you may have noticed that checking your Gmail can at times be a bit on the slow side. A reason for this may be because you’re subscribed to all IMAP folders in "full download" mode. If you unsubscribe from...

I received some CD-RW (that’s Read/Write by the way) blank discs because I ran out of my standard CD-R’s and needed to burn some traditional audio CDs (yes, some people still do this). These happened to be Memorex CD-RWs. I pop in the disc and no matter what burner program I use (Nero, WinAMP, etc.), the maximum write speed is 4x. I’m not...

One would think since the USA created internet (yes we did) we’d be top dog as far as adoption of broadband is concerned. We’re not. In fact, we’re in 15th place. On average, the fastest download last-mile speed is 2.3mbps. Just to give you an indication of how slow our connectivity speed is, Japan (who always kicks everyone’s ass in...

If you run an older computer  there are certain services you can safely disable in Windows XP. This won’t make your computer blazingly faster by any means but it will gain you a "few extra horsepower", so to speak. To access your running services:Go to Control Panel. Double-click the Administrative Tools icon. Double-click the Services...

If you have ever noticed, almost all current network cards support 10/100/1000 ethernet, but very few routers actually support the /1000. The last /1000 is actually called gigabit networking, allowing you to transfer 1 gigabit per second – which is the same as 1000 megabits per second or 125 megabytes per second – over your network. This increase...