It’s no good creating a secure password if the website you’ve signed up for doesn’t bother protecting your information. Sadly, it seems as though a lot of people have been learning this the hard way, of late. The number of password leaks that have surfaced just over the past two months has been positively staggering, and the revelation that...

The initial release of 1995 happened on Thursday, 24 August 1995, which at the time of this writing was exactly 17 years, 1 month, 2 weeks, and 3 days ago. I can do this math easily because of Windows 7 Calculator, by the way:Gotta love Windows 7 Calculator. Anyway, I remember when Microsoft Windows 95 was new, and there’s been a whole bunch of stuff...

Something I find funny is how the internet throws out words and terms where the assumption is made that everyone is supposed to magically know exactly what the word/term means and how it’s applied. “Hashtag” is something which is a combination of two words, hash and tag. The hash part represents the octothorpe (#) which most people known as the...

Game Selection: Winner: Steam While it’s certainly something of an unfair comparison at this point (after all, Origin’s still very much the new kid on the block as far as digital distribution’s concerned), it’s still something a lot of people are judging Origin on. while Steam has a massive library comprised of thousand upon thousands of...

Flash memory these days is stupidly cheap. A 64GB memory card is under 40 bucks. To put this in perspective, a 64GB memory card will hold the data of 13 DVD-5 (the 4.7GB kind) discs. Now while true that DVD media is way, way cheaper than Flash memory, bear in mind a memory card can never be scratched and is physically a whole lot smaller. At some point in the...

Skype, arguably one of the most-used instant messaging services these days, has recently had a rash of profile pic spam messages start appearing. The sad part? Some people are stupid enough to actually click those spam links and get infected with malware. Yes, it’s the same “run this EXE and see my pic” crapola you saw 10 years ago. You would...

You’d think that, with all the advances we’ve been making in the world of computing, with all the new manufacturing techniques and cost-cutting methods being employed by OEMs, people would be packing increasingly powerful hardware into their systems, right? After all, reduced costs means that those who plan to shell out for a gaming PC can,...

The term “Big Data” is now used to basically describe a service where you put your trust and faith into a third party to house all your digital stuff. Or to put it simply, “Cloud”. Most of you know Big Data as services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 and Microsoft Skydrive. Free Big Data is, simply put, anything you can use which is...