Although I’m primarily going to concentrate on the Windows environment, the guidelines below apply to any operating system. After all, clutter is clutter no matter which OS the clutter is in. Most modern web browsers will dump all your downloads, as in the files you click to download (meaning not the cache) to a specific folder titled Downloads. Windows...

While this might be old news to some, I’m sure there are still a few people who wouldn’t mind hearing about this tool. Let’s say you’re on YouTube, and you see a video you really like. It’s downright awesome, and you think “Hey, I’d love to put that on my iPod.” Believe it or not, you actually can do that. Some...

A few days ago, we celebrated a well-earned victory against the Old Guard. SOPA and PIPA were called unconstitutional. They were shelved, their proponents were defeated, and all was well on the ‘net. For about an hour.  Something’s recently come into play that casts SOPA and PIPA in a whole new light. Turns out, they folks responsible for SOPA had...

DuckDuckGo is a popular alternative search engine with privacy in mind for those who want simple, easy search that works. In the Google Chrome browser, you can use DuckDuckGo as either a keyword-invoked search, or just simply set it as the default search engine in the browser. The video below shows you how to do both, plus some other...

No matter how much a computer geek would prefer otherwise, we still have to use the US Postal Mail service to get things done for certain things, particularly when it comes to signed documents, physical receipt of delivery and so on. As good as email is, its status as far as "being an official document" is concerned still doesn’t hold the same...

YouTube’s grand and all, but there’s definitely a few things that could be improved about it. Until Google decides to implement automatic playback, or the ability to resize videos while watching them, we’ll have to turn to outside sources. Notably…Chrome extensions. Here’s 5 extensions for Google Chrome designed to make your...

Back when MySpace was the big deal in social networking, there were tons of major businesses that decided to get a page there. Were any of them worth anything? No, and for the most part they were largely ignored by the internet populous. Unfortunately it’s getting to the same point like before where businesses are getting social profile pages left and...

Victor Writes: Is there a way I could access a webcam that is hooked up to a desktop computer in my home network with a different desktop computer in the same home network? I would like to monitor what is going on downstairs from the computer that is upstairs! I would think this should be similar to accessing a printer that is hooked up to a different computer...