How Can You Deal With Ambient Heat While Computing?
I’m one of those odd fellows who happens to enjoy winter, and it isn’t just because I like the cold (though that certainly plays into it). See, my current apartment doesn’t have air conditioning. Most...
View ArticleThe 12 Computer Key Characters Everyone Gets Wrong
There are 12 characters on a standard computer keyboard layout (as in QWERTY) that a lot of people get wrong as far as what to call them. And it is pretty much guaranteed that every person that reads...
View ArticleGmail’s Filter/Search Tool Is Actually Incredible
The other day, I decided to log into one of my old gmail accounts for the first time in somewhere around a year. Turns out, I’d forgotten one tiny little detail: back when I still had the email...
View ArticleFive Best Practices For Keeping Your Smartphone Secure
It’s still a little shocking to me how many people fail to consider the issue of smartphone security. As the devices become more and more central to our daily lives, the data stored on them becomes...
View ArticleFour Tactics You Can Use To Retrieve Data From A Dead Laptop
Eventually, all technology dies. No system is made to last forever, which means you’ve always got to be prepared for the day it eventually craps out on you. Unfortunately, I wasn’t prepared for my old...
View ArticleHow To Rid Yourself Of Irritating Multi-Page Articles On Chrome
One of my biggest pet peeves online is coming across an article that splits itself (most always unnecessarily) into multiple pages. Not only does it make reading through the article significantly more...
View ArticleFive Ways That Playing Video Games Can Make You A Better Person
I’ll be blunt here: no one ever gives video games enough credit. To most, they’re simply a horrendously effective means of wasting time. They’re a melting pot into which ambition, sociability, and...
View ArticleWhy Facebook’s Buyout Of Oculus VR Is Nothing To Be Concerned About
For those of you who’ve been living under a rock, Facebook bought Oculus VR (and by association, it’s virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift) to the tune of $2 billion. Gamers everywhere threw up...
View ArticleFive More Great Tools To Help You Secure Your Productivity
Efficiency? What’s that? Let’s face it, none of us are as productive as we want to be, nor as efficient as we could be. It’s sort of a side effect of the world we live in these days; a culture where...
View ArticleWhy Obsessing Over Keywords Is No Longer Worthwhile For SEO
Back in the yesteryear of search engine optimization (that is, back when search engines were in their infancy), it was all about links and keywords. How many links you had (and how high quality they...
View ArticleUnderstanding The Resource Monitor In Windows 7
Today, we’re going to talk about the Windows Resource Monitor. What is it? How do you use it? Most importantly…what’s it actually good for? We’ll start with that last question. The Resource Monitor is...
View ArticleSo Is Bitcoin Actually Safe To Invest In?
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin seem to be all the rage these days. It’s not all that difficult to see why, really. The Internet is a global entity, without roots to any one nation. The problem, of...
View ArticleWhat Net Neutrality Means For You – And Why You Should Be Worried About The FCC
There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to live in Canada. This is one of them. Between the Comcast/Time Warner merger and the FCC’s blatant mishandling of net neutrality (do they even understand...
View ArticleWhy You Should Shell Out For PlayStation Plus (If You Haven’t Already)
Until fairly recently, Sony’s PlayStation network was completely free to use. So long as you had a functional Internet connection and a legitimate copy of your game, you could play online to your...
View ArticleWant To Get In Touch With Congress About Your Privacy? The EFF Just Made That...
A few days ago, the Electronic Frontier foundation put out a call to developers across the web. They were looking for help with the creation of a system which would make it easier for everyday people...
View ArticleSix Signs Your Graphics Card Might Be Dying
Ever since I purchased my new computer, I tend to be a little paranoid about my hardware. I’m constantly monitoring everything for signs of failure, remaining vigilant even when there’s realistically...
View ArticleSo, Windows XP Is Dead. What Now?
Well, it’s official. Microsoft has finally pulled the plug on Windows XP, officially discontinuing support for the operating system on April 9, 2014. This marks the end of a twelve-year run by the...
View ArticleNeed A Timesink? Here Are Five Incredible Games That’ll Steal Your Life Away
I know better than a lot of folks that video games tend to be notorious time-sinks. If you’re not careful, you can waste days sitting in front of the screen, playing your life away. Failure to moderate...
View ArticleWhy YouTube’s Copyright System Is Horrifically Broken – And How We Can Fix It
I’m just going to come right out and say it: there’s an elephant in the room where YouTube is concerned: the system by which the popular video sharing site purports to protect content creators....
View ArticleFive Tools To Help You Troubleshoot Your Blue Screen Of Death
I think a lifetime using Windows PCs has made me hate the color blue. It’s come to be the color I associate with misfortune; the blue-on-white to me signifies little more than pure dread. Many of you...
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