July 28, 2012
Google Fiber has just selected Kansas City, Missouri, for the premier launch of its broadband Internet and TV service. What’s remarkable is that Google has announced that speeds available will be 100 times more than the ones currently available now in the United States. The launch and its fate could also portend Google’s nationwide roll-out.
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July 7, 2012
More recently, there's been a lot of talk about switching to IPv6 and how it will bring a lot of benefits to the Internet. But, this "news" keeps repeating itself, as there's always an occasional post which tries to push the Internet to the IPv6 protocol. Why is this theme recurring, you ask? Primarily because the transition to the new protocol is very slow. However, does it really matter to you whether the transition is going slowly or not? Should you even care?
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June 26, 2012
Seems hard to imagine, doesn't it? A world without Internet (or as I like to call it, The Dark Ages). A time when the latest technology consisted of a Sony Walkman cassette player and a VHS video recorder (or Betamax, if you are REALLY that old to remember that far back). A time of newspapers instead of Google News, and a time of posting letters through a mailbox instead of email. I know, scary stuff.
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May 12, 2012
FBI actions mean 350,000 computers - all infected with the "DNSchanger" malware - will be cut off from the Internet on July 9, 2012. Does this sound like science fiction at best or a scam at worst? Well, it's neither. Keep reading to hear the crazy story behind the FBI and the DNSChanger trojan, and what you can do to make sure your Internet will keep working.
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April 9, 2012
The Internet is progressing at such a blistering pace that by 2020, we are probably going to see a lot of changes, hopefully for the better. For example, right now here in 2012, we’re seeing a vast amount of data being uploaded to the cloud, as more and more people abandon concepts such as hard [...]
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April 6, 2012
I have a criteria of about 8 to 10 items that I personally look for when I do SEO analysis, but of course one of the most important is search volume. Having monitored the search volume for thousands of different phrases over the course of time, I have come to recognize a few very large, not insignificant patterns in how humanity around the world tends to use the Internet - or at least how they use the search engines.
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March 22, 2012
Before the era of smartphones, we've always been used to getting our internet from good old cables, whether it be phone lines, broadband cable, or DSL. While those were pretty good options when they first came out (and they're still decent today, except dial-up), we're starting to go toward a more wireless world.
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March 7, 2012
I absolutely love my job as managing editor of MakeUseOf.com but many people, family included, look upon what I do with a lot of bemusement, a kind of "is he STILL deluded into thinking that's a JOB? When is he going to act responsibly and get a REAL job?". But the infographic below is a classic example of why the Internet is the best place to be working - because it's where everything is happening baby!
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February 16, 2012
I love the web. It's a chaotic place where just about anything can happen. Unknown people become celebrities, revolutions spread from nation to nation and college students become billionaires. And a group of people spread across the planet - most of whom have never met in person - can work together to build a site read by millions. That's MakeUseOf.
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January 22, 2012
As the day of online activism opposing SOPA and PIPA continued, supporters quickly began to have second thoughts. Now, the final blows have been struck. Senator Harry Reid has decided to put the Protect IP Act on permanent hiatus, and Representative Lamar Smith pulled his support for the Stop Online Piracy Act. In doing so, the bills have been effectively killed.
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December 15, 2011
Telnet is one of those tech terms you may occasionally hear, but not in an ad or a feature laundry list of any product you may buy. That’s because it’s a protocol, or a language used to talk to computers and other machines; not only that, but Telnet is actually ancient in Internet terms, dating back from 1973. So what is Telnet, and what is it good for, anyway?
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October 10, 2011
You may remember my article from a while back, 3 Ways You've Sold Your Soul to the Internet. As it turns out, there seems to be a variety of ways that one can make it happen, and as a matter of fact, I've found four more ways that you can do so!
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October 3, 2011
I'm sure, being the Internet-savvy users that you all are, that a lot of your life is online. You order your books and music through Amazon, you order takeaway pizza with your iPhone, you rent movies through your media center, you pay your bills with online banking and you order your groceries through supermarket websites. In short, you can do pretty much anything online these days.
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September 28, 2011
‘Drinking from the firehose’ is a turn of phrase you might not be familiar with. But believe me, if you are reading this blog and many others like this, it’s exactly what you are doing every day. It’s not water you are trying to gulp down, but a torrent of information. Information overload is the more precise term. Also, I am pretty sure you are drowning.
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August 25, 2011
You may not have participated in a blood ritual sacrifice, and you also may not have sworn your firstborn to a warlock. However, chances are if you spend any time on Facebook, Twitter, or Google, then you have already handed over a great deal of your life over to the Internet. The Internet can be evil, and we're here to make you aware of its malevolent side.
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