Three things we learned quickly after working on a few hundred computers: 1. People love their pictures 2. People love their music 3. People love their contacts list (address book) Another thing we’ve learned is a lot of you have Gmail accounts and it only seems reasonable to assume that those of you with Gmail accounts have a… Read More »
We live in an age that even George Orwell couldn’t have imagined. There are cameras everywhere, your searches are tracked, your phone calls belong to the NSA…where does it end. Even if you’re doing nothing wrong, do you want someone snooping on your searches? You can learn a lot about someone just from capturing their search terms. For… Read More »
Turn Your Windows 7 or Windows 8x Computer Into a Wireless Hotspot Windows 7 and Windows 8x Before we begin, let’s make something clear…you don’t need to download any software to turn a Windows 7 or 8x computer into a Wireless hotspot. Windows ships with this feature – but unless you are a masochist or enjoy typing commands,… Read More »
More and more of our readers are using other devices to connect to the Internet. While almost all of you connect to the Internet using a Windows laptop or desktop, many of you access the Internet using iPhones, iPads, Android tablets, Android phones and/or Chromebooks. In today’s poll, we’d like you to tell us what other devices you… Read More »
The World Wide Web turned 25-years-old this year. The Web, all due respect to Al Gore, was created by a man named Tim Berners-Lee. When he first thought of the idea his boss at time called it “vague but exciting”, and allowed Berners-Lee to develop his idea for a World Wide Web on the side. But how much… Read More »
Despite the fact that American companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix and others dominate the tech world, America ranks number 31 in the world in Internet download speeds and 42nd in upload speeds. That’s pretty pathetic when you think that America is arguably the richest country in the world. I guess it’s not as shocking as the… Read More »