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About Ryan Dube

Ryan has a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering. He's worked 13 years in automation engineering, 5 years in IT, and now is an Apps Engineer. A former Managing Editor of MakeUseOf, he's spoken at national conferences on Data Visualization and has been featured on national TV and radio.

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Why The Internet Provides A Thriving Environment For Hate & Trolling [Opinion]

Aidan Dwyer entered and won a science competition. What happened next is something that those of us that have been on the Internet for a long time now would not find very surprising. The story about the science competition hit the Internet, and everyone from PhD researchers to armchair scientists took a look at young Aidan's design, and the flaming began.

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How to Track What Others Do on Your Computer With iSpy

Have you ever been in a situation where you suspect someone has been using your computer, but you just aren't certain who is doing it and what they're actually doing when they're logged in? This situation comes up more often than you might suspect. The computer use may be completely innocent, or the person may actually be trying to poke around your personal files to discover private information about you.

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4 Creative Uses For A VNC Server

Other than just using VNC clients to connect to a remote computer, what can you really use VNC servers for? When you stop and think about it, the ability to connect to and control a remote computer using free software like this is pretty cool. In this article, we are going to put together four remote-control systems that you can use to control various entertainment and display systems throughout your home, from a single, central computer.

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Instantly Visualize Data & Information With Google Fusion Tables

Whether you're putting together a report for work, or you just want to represent information on your blog in a graphical way, Google Fusion Tables can help. Google Fusion is actually a feature embedded into Google Docs, that lets you transform raw information that's stored in a tabular or spreadsheet format into a more visually appealing way.

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Easily Send Command Line Emails with Blat

Blat. Not exactly the word you envision would be the name of a tool that you can use to send out emails to anyone in the world, from any application or software tool that you desire. It more sounds like the sound that a raw egg makes when it hits the floor. Well, that's exactly what I'm going to introduce to you today, if you've never heard of it before.

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Experience Space Exploration In 3D At NASA Visualizations

Are you a fellow space explorer? If you had the opportunity to experience what's it's like to be an astronaut, or even one of the many technical support crew that support space exploration, would you jump for it? The amazing thing about NASA, besides all of the mind-bending missions into outer space, is just how hard the space agency works to educate the general public about space.

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How To Control Running Services With The SC Command [Windows]

One of the things that I find myself doing much more often since diving into IT is monitoring and checking the status of services running on computers that are running across the company. There is the standard way of managing services which most people use because it's well-known and fairly easy. But what about another way?

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Enter A Strategic Tank War Game In BZFlag

BZFlag stands for Battle Zone capture the Flag. It's a 3D tank battle game that's fast paced and at times pretty intense. There is no single-player game - it's all about team-match network gaming. Some of the games may be set up as one huge team against a second huge team in a classic capture the flag game. Other games are set up in smaller teams - much more intense.

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The Top 8 Radio Talk Show Hosts With Online Streaming

While searching for an interesting topic this week, I realized that we've never really covered radio talk show hosts here at MUO. Both David and Dean discussed how you can get started in your own talk show host career by launching an Internet radio show, but what if you're looking for popular radio show hosts to listen to while you're online?

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Create Impressive Text Art With ASCII Generator 2 [Windows]

When I was just a kid - about 9 years old - my brother and I would purchase those new computer magazines that had all kinds of neat programs and other "computer tricks" in them. Back then, computer programs consisted of BASIC software that you could type into the terminal a line at a time, save it on the floppy disk and then run it to watch some fun ASCII-based graphics or game flash across the screen.

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Organize Your Piles Of Files & Other Stuff With Stuff Organizer [Windows]

One of the things that I've been procrastinating about for a very long time is sorting through all of the pictures, videos, data files and wide assortment of other "stuff" that's scattered throughout my computer like a cluttered basement that's just waiting to be cleaned. The only thing is that I can never find the time to actually tidy up my computer.

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Create a Full Page News Ticker Display with CSS & RSS Widgets

If you're a news blogger, the importance of staying up to date on breaking news is critical. Ever since I started covering more news-related events on my own blog, I realized how important it was to constantly monitor real-time news. Since I use two screens with my laptop, I realized that I could set up one screen to be exclusively for streaming incoming news.

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Transmit RSS Feeds By Sound Using Morse News [Windows]

There are a lot of really weird things that you can accomplish when you start combining different technologies that exist today. Today, you've got email, text messaging, RSS feeds, chat rooms, and countless other text-based methods to communicate. There are so many ways to communicate information to each other, that sometimes it's easy to forget all of the methods we've used in the past to communicate.

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Shut Down Unwanted Connections To Your PC With CloseTheDoor

When computers work well, things are pretty cool. Every component of your PC just....works. But when you get one of those nasty little downloads - one of those little scripts or apps that dig its way deep down into the heart of your computer - it can be unnerving. Luckily, there is a new tool you can use to manually go through and clean up those evil processes.

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How To Create A Data Backup Tool With SyncToy & VB Script

We've covered a lot of backup solutions here at MUO, and all of these solutions are great, but if you're working in an environment that is wary about free 3rd party software packages, or companies that want to stick with Microsoft products only, then you may find yourself without a good solution. Enter SyncToy and VB Script.

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How To Make Your Own Basic Internet Browser Using VBA

When you really stop to think about it, an Internet browser in its simplest form isn't really that impressive an application. I mean, yes, the Internet is amazing by anyone's standards. The concept of linking so many of the world's computers and mobile devices within this massive network, that is epic. But the concept of transferring a text file with special code in it onto a computer screen is not really a big deal.

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Christmas
6 Holiday Gifts That Are Perfect For The Amateur Spy

During my day job, I work a lot with all sorts of technology. During the evening, I write about technology, as well as about espionage and spy stories. When you combine the two together, you get the obvious topic of spy gear. What I've found during my time blogging about spy news and cutting edge technologies is that there are a lot of people out there that really love spy technologies.

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How To Tweak Important Privacy Settings For Limited-Access Facebook Pages

If you have a website, a blog or any kind of company that you want to promote through social media, Facebook Pages are a sure fire way to kick start that promotional effort. No matter how you've created your fan or community page, there are different choices you have to make when it comes to how your users can respond and who will have permissions to make updates to your page.

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Check Out The Features Of The New & Improved Google Analytics

Google Analytics is the most popular website analytics platform for website owners today. There are certainly others to choose from, such as the three open source tools Danny wrote about, the free analytics tools Rich wrote about, or the eight live analytics tools that Dave covered. Regardless, no other analytics tool has seen the adoption rate that Google Analytics has.

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Put Your Command Line On Steroids With Swiss File Knife [Windows]

Sometimes, the fastest way to accomplish a task such as sorting files or editing text documents is to use quick command line tools. there is a really cool tool called Swiss File Knife (sfk), which extends the sort of scripting set we've all become accustomed to.

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