July 22, 2012
Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. Every week we invite you to explore various genres and artists from around the world. This edition holds a wide selection of genres from rock to hip hop and jazz to dance music. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by [...]
July 18, 2012
For years, standard hard drives have been the speed limiting factor in overall system responsiveness. While hard drive size, RAM capacity, and CPU speed have grown almost exponentially, the spinning speed of a hard drive, i.e. the factor defining how fast it can be read, has increased only moderately in comparison. If you really want to give your computer a speed boost, try switching to a solid state drive, short SSD.
July 17, 2012
The Internet is an unforgiving place – it never forgets. Whatever gets posted online, whether it’s a careless statement or a funny picture, it could very well backfire and hurt you in the future. It’s even worse when you share a name with a reckless individual who ends up ruining your reputation as much as their own. This is what happened to Pete, one of the co-founders of BrandYourself.
July 15, 2012
Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. Every edition invites you to explore various genres and artists from around the world. This week meanders through mainstream pop and rock, with little detours into quiet folk and other genres. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by entering 0 [...]
July 11, 2012
There are three great tragedies of the Internet age – losing access to the internet, a serious malware infection that ultimately prevents access to the Internet, and forgetting passwords and thus losing access to online accounts. Two of these tragic events can easily be prevented or fixed, provided you took the necessary precautions. This article will show you how to prepare your online accounts to make them recoverable.
July 10, 2012
Do you love your home? If you enjoy creating a beautiful living environment with a great atmosphere and if you are interested in Do It Yourself tips for your home and garden, you should have a look at Hometalk, an online home improvement community you will fall in love with. Hometalk is an active community for home owners, renters and professionals to share tips and tricks and ask for help with projects.
July 8, 2012
Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. Every edition invites you to explore various genres and artists from around the world. This week it’s all about music that rocks. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by entering 0 in the price field. That said, we strongly recommend [...]
July 4, 2012
Passwords are the Achilles heel of your online privacy and security. Presently, passwords are the essentially the only way to access online accounts and with the diversity of login information to keep track of, the average user has to manage an arsenal of safe passwords. However, coping with dozens of complicated character strings isn’t a [...]
July 3, 2012
The digital age has revolutionized the way we handle information. Never before could humankind record and store so much information and in such diversity. While the amount of data has increased exponentially, the predicted life span of the storage media hardly exceeds the lifetime of a human. For humans who love to collect and leave a legacy to their ancestors, this poses a huge challenge.
July 1, 2012
Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. Every edition invites you to explore various genres and artists from around the world. This week takes you on a varied acoustic ride with audio challenges for both sides of your brain. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by entering 0 in the price field. That said, we strongly recommend you to donate a few dollars for music you enjoy!
June 27, 2012
A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test used online to make sure content is submitted by a human being. The acronym stands for ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart’ and is also based on the word ‘capture’. CAPTCHArt is the visualization of the humorous associations arising from randomly created two word CAPTCHAs, also known as reCAPTCHAs.
June 26, 2012
Chores and bills have a great potential for creating tension between roommates. The best way to keep trouble at bay is being up front about expectations, everyday clear communication, and obviously discipline. If both of you are geeks, technology can make all of that a lot easier. This articles introduces you to online tools and apps to fairly split bills and organize household chores.
June 24, 2012
Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. Every edition takes you on a sound journey to various genres and artists from around the world. This edition offers a relaxing mix of folk, americana, pop, rock, and electronic music. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by entering 0 [...]
June 20, 2012
Having a roommate is a great way to save money, not just on the rent, but also on other bills. Apart from helping your finances, sharing your home with a friendly and caring person has many more advantages. You can cook together, share household chores, and your roommate can take care of the apartment when you travel. Having shared apartments and houses for most of my life, I can tell you a thing or two about what to look for in a roommate.
June 19, 2012
Originally created in 2006 as a short messaging system for small groups, Twitter has since evolved into a powerful communication tool that has dramatically changed how information is shared and spread online. Twitter functions as a crowd-driven trend barometer, an information hub that is breaking news faster than news agencies.
