Warren writes: Just curious to know if anyone has tried waterfox web browser. It’s for 64 bit systems and is from mozilla. Installed it a couple days ago and while I have no tools to benchmark it, seems faster than the others with no compatibility issues with any site. Not easy to find on mozilla’s site but maybe someone could give it a spin and see...

Social media means big business for marketing firms. It should come as no surprise that some slimy individuals want to exploit that for their own gain. No, I’m not talking about Zuckerberg and his crew- what they’re doing might be unethical, but it’s technically legal. Not so with all of the criminal elements that have set up shop on social...

Today (Jan 18th) is a large-scale protest day to SOPA/PIPA. No doubt, you’ve heard all about it. Many large websites are going black today in protest of the bill, including Wikipedia, WordPress and Google (in the form of a censored logo). If I had more time available, I might have set things up to black out DavidRisley.com and PCMech.com. But, I...

Instant messaging using a real client is definitely on the rebound these days because it’s one of those things that people really enjoy using. Those who remember how popular it used to be do miss it, and the younger generation also appreciates IM as well. These days, no IM client is worth using unless it connects to Facebook, and AIM was one of the first...

When most people hear "flag" concerning email, they mistakenly think that means "mark as spam" all the time, and that’s incorrect. Email flagging has been around more or less for as long as email has existed. It’s a special mark you can place on any message so that you can quickly retrieve it later. Small example: An email comes...

It is possible for just about any cell phone (even for plain featurephones) to send messages to email addresses as well as other mobile phone numbers. The drawback to this is that on reply to a message via email, HTML formatting by default is enabled, which on receive of the phone comes across as mostly gibberish (all the formatting code can be seen). The...

The Secure Digital card, commonly abbreviated as SD (or SDSC, SDHC, SDHC, SDIO, microSD, etc.), is an old enough technology at this point where many of you have cards that are several years old. SD cards are used by a whole bunch of different devices, but the most common applications are in digital cameras/camcorders and mobile phones. Like with all memory...

External hard drives are great. As an iMac user (yeah yeah, whatever )… I make use of external hard drives for backup purposes and redundancy. The thing is, they take up space. And then there’s a wire on your desk. If you’re trying to get rid of desktop clutter, then a good option is to put some of your computer add-ons (like external hard...