There are a lot of search engines out there besides Google, Bing and Yahoo. The ones we are featuring today are niche search engines – they have limited usability – but they’re a lot a fun. And they’re useful too if their specialty is what you’re looking for. #1. Dead Cell Zones (USA and UK) Dead Cell Zones offers a… Read More »
Many of you will be traveling over the holidays to visit family and friends. One thing I’ve always hated about the travel sites is how convoluted the flight schedules can be. But did you know that Google makes it really easy to find out which airlines service a particular route as well as flight times and other useful… Read More »
There’s a big brouhaha boiling over do-not-track lists. To make a complex thing simple – it take simple minds like ours to skim off the cream and leave the milk behind -we’re going to give you nothing but cream: Do not track (me) is similar to the do-not-call lists you’ve heard about. Supposedly the new Internet Explorer is… Read More »
What does a secure server mean to you? Web browser: “How do I know you’re who you say you are, Mr. Big Bank? You have any ID?” Mr. Big Bank: “As a matter of fact, I do, young fella. Here is my security certificate, you’ll notice that it matches the one that was issued to me by VeriSign.”… Read More »
If Internet Explorer seems to be taking forever to load, it might not be Internet Explorer, it might be all those add-ons you have. Here’s how to tell. Click on Tools / Manage Add-ons, check the Load Time in the right-hand column, you will be able to see which browser add-ons maybe slowing down Internet Explorer. If you… Read More »
We’ve touted DuckDuckGo before. It’s the private search engine that keeps your searches private and respects your privacy rights. With computers taking over almost everything in our lives, we can all be tracked, collated, assessed, reviewed, and used by advertisers and others to whom information equals money. So it only makes sense to do as much as you… Read More »