Some of us wind up creating a lot of unique documents and files each day. It tends to clutter up our Documents folder and slow down navigation when trying to pinpoint a particular group of files. While it may seem like a good idea to organize all the files in their own daily folder, creating [...]
3 Options To Analyze Past Computer Usage
Operating systems and applications often save loads and loads of information, often without the user knowing about it. This can have privacy implications, considering that it may be possible to recover files, bookmarks or visited web pages easily. We have covered the topic before, see Used Hard Drives Still Haven For Identify Theft for instance. [...]
Netflix in Violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
The National Association of the Deaf has sued Netflix, the movie rental company that offers it’s videos via the mail and by online instant access. The NAD is suing them for failure to offer subtitles on enough of its streaming content. The lawsuit was filed last Thursday in U.S District Court of Massachusetts. The NAD [...]
Optimize Websites With GTmetrix Web Performance Reports
As a webmaster, you have to make sure that your websites are loading as fast as possible, without sacrificing functionality. While it may be cool to have ten 500 Kilobyte images on your homepage, it may in turn lead to visitors leaving the site before it is completely loaded in their browsers. Lower page loading [...]
Sony Prepares for Tablet Launch As Verizon Leaks a Peek at the Motorola Xoom 4G
Friday and Saturday have uncovered some pretty interesting things about the new contenders entering the tablet market. Both Sony and Motorola are apparently rushing towards new releases, and while both are expected to appear on the market by fall, information on each is scattered. Reports about Sony’s upcoming tablet(s) are quite literally all over the [...]
When Working With PDF Printers, Watch The File Sizes
Roman just posted an interesting observation about pdf printers on the Ghacks forum. He noticed that the output file size of pdf printers differed considerably. In his own test, he noticed a difference of nearly 400% between the smallest file size and largest file size. While that’s just been a single test, it shows that [...]
How To Change The Default Picture Save Location In Microsoft Word
I’m frequently getting articles submitted as Word documents. These documents include pictures and the text, and I somehow have to save the pictures to my local drive before I can upload them to the web server and embed them in the article. One of the things that irritated me for quite some time was the [...]
Unlock Reddit’s Full Potential Through Chrome Add-Ons and Extensions
Thousands of internet users have discovered the joys of Reddit, a web portal that provides users with access to images, underground news and the latest memes through a simple and seemingly pre-2000 interface. While the website has been flooded by new users in recent months, long-time users have been developing add-ons and accessories that make [...]
ICANN to allow .anytld to be used on the web
In a major shakeup for the Internet, the global Internet governing body ICANN has voted to allow any word or name to be used as an Internet suffix. Currently the number of suffixes, commonly known as TLDs (Top Level Domain) sits at 22 and includes ‘.co.’ country variations that bring the total up to 250, [...]