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Nov 6

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Friday

For those that remember internet in the late 1990s, you remember your dialup being slow, there was no such thing as tabbed browsing, web sites were clunky/cumbersome and difficult to navigate, low screen resolutions of the time meant lots and lots of scrolling, and well, you get the idea.
Thankfully we don’t have to deal with [...]

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Oct 30

Some Just Can’t Let Geocities Die [Reocities]

Remember Geocities? That online community with free hosting that so many people (including myself) started our first website on.
Did you know that PCMech.com got its start on Geocities? Back before I even owned the domain, the concept behind this site was run on GeoCities. At SiliconValley/Lakes/3553/, to be exact.
Well, Yahoo bought Geocities. It went nowhere. [...]

Oct 30

Are You Under The Thumb Of A Bandwidth Restriction?

Bandwidth restriction by the ISP directly is something most U.S. users don’t have to deal with – yet. Both other countries have had to deal with monthly bandwidth limitations more or less since broadband was first introduced in their part of the world.
Here in the U.S., Comcast is gunning to impose monthly data restrictions [...]

Oct 30

Powerful Tool For Working With Delimited Text

If you do a lot of data import and exports, you are probably very familiar with using comma or tab delimited files. If you have to edit these files, however, using a text editor can be challenging because typically these types of files are difficult to work with in just plain text. While Excel is [...]

Oct 29

Google Maps Navigation – The GPS Remade

Some huge news has hit the world of GPS. Google is poised to fundamentally change the GPS market. They have released the beta version of Google Maps Navigation for the Android platform.
This directly pits Google up against major GPS manufacturers like Garmin and TomTom. Here is what it’ll be able to do:

Live traffic data
Search by [...]

Oct 29

How To View The Source Of An Email (Spam/Phishing Prevention)

Knowing how to check the source, as in the raw "code," of an email is important because there will be times when you need to do it. Why? To check authenticity of an email. Spam and phishing emails are getting more tricky to identify all the time, and your best weapon against this is knowing [...]

Oct 29

Fully Uninstall Mac Programs Easily

First off, I don’t use a Mac so I don’t really know what the uninstall process is, however a utility I came across which looks like something our Mac readers might like is AppTrap.
Moving an application to the trash is simple and easy. Shouldn’t true uninstallation on the Mac be the same way?
With AppTrap, when [...]