If you have watched a YouTube video lately you may have noticed an i icon appear in the top right corner on the site like on this video here. This is YouTube's […]
There have always been two options available when it comes to watching movies and videos made available as torrents. You could either download them to your system using a torrent client or […]
Before I start the review of Zona, a new application that provides you with access to movies, TV series, music, games and live TV, I'd like to use a paragraph or two […]
If you want to watch a particular TV show or movie on the Internet, you have check the various streaming providers such as Netflix or Amazon Prime to find out if they […]
Several Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the US are pressuring Netflix to pay money to ensure the optimal delivery of Netflix streams to customers. Brian over at Betanews thinks that Netflix should […]
If you compare how Windows 8 has been doing until now to how Windows 7 did in its first two years of existence, you will come to the conclusion that it did […]
If you are a gamer and have recently upgraded your Windows operating system to version 8.1, you may have noticed that some of the games that you play on your PC have […]
So what is happening on April 8, 2014 that is affecting all Windows XP users? It is the end of support for the operating system. What this means is that Microsoft won't […]
Regardless if you are looking to post your first blog or looking for a professional service, there are multiple outlets to satisfy almost any need you could have. However, competition is good, […]
Google Chrome for a long time was seen as the web browser that was pushing web standards the most. It was faster in terms of JavaScript performance than any other browser on […]
Mozilla announced in 2012 that it would rename BrowserID, a technology and service to revolutionize how people log in on the Internet, to Mozilla Persona, or short Persona. The problem here was […]
With UK parties proposing to monitor the activities of all country residents come new fears of an 1984-esque government that with a single mouse click can find out everything there is to […]
Cisco has been in the news lately with a firmware update for some of the company's routers (Linksys EA Routers) that is integrating a Cloud based service into the routers. Since routers […]
Remember the Wing Commander game franchise or Origin, the game company behind it? Back in 1990 when it was first introduced it revolutionized the space combat genre both visually and story-wise. I […]
The closer we get to the unveiling of the Windows 8 beta, the more I'm thinking about the impact (or not) this operating system is going to have on the world. Since […]
Of the biggest tech stories in 2011 it was difficult to beat the news of the HP TouchPad fire sale where silly prices resulted in queues outside stores and websites crashing around […]
The Windows operating system ships with a basic calendar that's linked to the system's date and time settings. A click on the system clock displays the current month with options to display […]
So called scraper sites or scrapers are one of the dark phenomenons of the Internet. These sites republish the RSS feed of one or multiple unique websites on a domain, usually without […]
Last week when HP announced both that it was going to sell off its PC division, but also that it was dropping its WebOS devices, the tech community went into shock. This […]
PCs are going the way of typewriters according to an engineer who worked on the original IBM PC. Â In a blog post to mark the 30th anniversary of the IBM PC 5150, […]
Update: Mozilla developed Firefox OS in the meantime which is not based on Android or Chrome OS. Mozilla have announced that they're the latest contender for the tablet operating system crown, and […]
There are lots of different ways to utilize the power of Twitter. Many people use it simply at its most basic level, posting tweets to their followers while scanning those of their […]
When mankind first started using computers one of the very first peripherals anybody would buy was a printer. Printing documents was just about the one thing people liked having computers for, and […]
After the sweeping successes of Facebook and Twitter (and, in a distant, simpler time, MySpace), everyone wants to know what the next social frenzy will be all about. Many contenders have thrown […]
Those looking for tools to help them organize their technologically-enhanced lives have plenty of options. Windows users can turn to the expensive prospect of using OneNote, which revolutionized online image clipping and […]
Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized the way people use the internet. Blogs and websites provide links to share information on the sites, and advertisers have completely restructured the way they approach internet […]
I've got a keen interest in smartphones and tablets. I think they're just both so brilliant for what you can do with them. For instance, being able to store spreadsheets and important […]
The Internet is full of free educational videos. Some good, many bad. Whether a video is considered good or bad usually comes down to the individual viewer, or student. If you are […]
The developers of the Opera web browser have been inventive in past years, and it is a confirmation of their hard work that many of the features that they have introduced in […]
The tablet market is exploding and growing exponentially, but it's still not reaching a critical mass with the general public not embracing them in the way they did netbooks. So why is […]
It's almost time. Soon a new paradigm of GNOME is going to drop onto the desktops of suspecting (and unsuspecting) users. When this does there is going to be reaction. As with […]
I took delivery of my new Windows 7 Tablet today, an ExoPC Slate, on the day ironically when Apple unveiled the iPad 2 to the world. It's thinner, lighter and has two […]
All web browsers are getting serious overhauls with the most recent being Internet Explorer 9 with its new one box. This is a unified address and search box and it makes sense […]
The Huffington post has now confirmed that its been bought by AOL for $315 million. The website, which was launched in 2005, is essentially a news aggregator featuring coverage of politics, media, […]
Unless you work in an enterprise environment, IBM isn't a name you hear very often these days. But this small typewriter manufacturer gave birth to the PC revolution that we have today, […]
One of these days, and I'll try this eventually, I'm going to write an article called "Apple" which will contain just a single word, that word will again be "Apple". What will the […]
You are probably expecting me to go into a review of a new laptop or tablet here, but that's not at all what I'm going to do. Indeed, sometimes we forget that […]
Back in August, Google's Andy Rubin proudly boasted that Android phones were being sold at the rate of 200,000 worldwide every day. The statement drew snyde remarks from Steve Jobs. Now, Rubin […]
I love menus. Actually, I love to be able to configure menus in order to make the Linux desktop be as efficient as possible. The problem with that is, I tend to […]
According to Ubuntu >= 10.04, left is the new right. It's old news by now, but I'm sure there are plenty of you out there who have battled to try to acclimate […]
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