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Delegate Your Email with Gmail
Many of us have more than one email account. If you’re like me, you use one for business, and another address entirely for personal stuff. Often, our Inbox becomes so overloaded that we simply cannot keep up. If this is the business side of things, not getting through it all could be disastrous. For this [...]
Rovio to Add Carrier Billing to Angry Birds
If you have been hoping for an easier way to get the newest Angry Birds releases – or even some sweet Bird swag – you’ll soon be able to do so right within the app. According to Rovio, you will now be able to run up charges directly on the monthly bill sent to you [...]
How Often Do You Upgrade Your Computer?
Your computer is slowing down. Things don’t run the way they should anymore. You baby it along by defragging, uninstalling programs, deleting files and cleaning things up as much as possible. Perhaps you go as far as cursing at your poor machine or even threatening it with a hammer. At what point, though, do you [...]
Your Computer IS Infected
I don’t care if you’re using Windows, OS X or Linus – your computer is most definitely infected. The dangerous thing is that you can become infected, as well. You wouldn’t go around rubbing your fingers all over a public toilet, would you? Charles Gerba, a Microbiologist, has concluded that every toilet seat has about [...]
Why is MySpace Meeting up with Facebook?
Earlier today, an invitation went out to the press to attend a (gasp!) GoToMeeting tomorrow with both MySpace and Facebook in attendance. Unfortunately, I doubt this means that we’ll see some major alliance between the two sites. I doubt that MySpace is going to close up shop or anything of that nature. Rumors are flying, [...]
Digg Hires Editors to Bring You the News Faster
Digg has always had trouble getting the hottest news to you as quickly as they would like. With the way things used to be done, it could take hours for users to submit a story and vote it up. From now on, there will be editors on staff to make sure headlines make it onto [...]
Is Social Media Making You Lazy?
Twitter is making us lazy. I counted at least ten different Tweets this evening where people asked their followers to answer a question that they could easily have looked up themselves. In the time it takes to Tweet something out and wait for replies, we could have found the answer on Google. One example would [...]
LimeWire is Back in the Game
That took even less time than I expected. I had a feeling we’d see popular P2P client LimeWire again, but I didn’t think it would be this fast. Reports are surfacing that the software has already been resurrected by a group of self-named hackers. “Not only has a secret dev team reanimated the hugely popular [...]
DDoS Attacks Bring Down the U.S. Copyright Office
Anonymous initiated a DDoS attack against the U.S. Copyright Office yesterday in an attempt to show their disdain against the defenders of copyright law. The site was knocked completely offline for about thirty minutes. The following few hours showed it crawling along with slow loading times and rendering it useless. Even several hours after the [...]
Google Sues the U.S. Government
Google is ticked off at the US government – to the point of filing a lawsuit. When the Department of the Interior sent out an RFQ (Request for Quote) recently, they refused to accept offers and solutions from the Google team. The RFQ specifically stated that the solution had to be part of the Microsoft [...]
Digg is Laying Off 37% of Its Workers
Not long after laying off 10% of its staff, Digg is now adding another 25 heads to the chopping block. That’s approximately 37% of the current staff, folks. The company also lost CRO Chas Edwards earlier today. He is reportedly moving into the startup realm. According to founder Kevin Rose, the company will be refocusing [...]
What Will Twitter Do With Your Photos?
I know you use Twitter as much as I do. Even if you aren’t a fan of the new layout, you have to admit that it’s nice having photos and videos in-line. Twitter has announced that they will begin hosting your pictures themselves in the near future. Have you read the Terms of Service, though? [...]
Why Do We Build Community?
I wear many hats along my chosen career path: writer, live streamer, speaker and mentor. The best part of what I do, though, is to help build our community. Make no mistake, it is our community, not mine. I simply provide the various tools to bring all of you together. Tonight, I was reminded why [...]
Use an Ad-Blocker Even if You Don’t Want to Block Ads
Various ad-blocking extensions are darn handy – even if you don’t care to block actual ads. Not only can you block ads, rickrolls and things you really don’t have time to have to see, these browser addons can also warn you when a site contains malicious content. When you first install most ad-block extensions, you [...]
Who Should You Work For?
A survey of more than 130,000 workers shows that Google is the number one place that people wish to work. That is a spot Microsoft held for many years. The rankings were compiled from a survey of “nearly 130,000 students at top academic institutions,” who “chose their ideal companies to work for.” Google, which just [...]
