There’s some poll results out right now that not-so surprisingly half – yes, half – of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad. The poll in question was conducted by Associated Press and CNBC. Now in case you weren’t aware, Facebook is going public as a company, as in a publicly-traded company, this week. Many are saying "too...

Time Warner Cable has decided to can the RoadRunner branding completely concerning its internet service offerings. This does not mean the internet service itself is going belly-up, but the name is going to change and for some subscribers the pricing schema will change as well. BrightHouse Networks in Florida for example does use the Time Warner Roadrunner...

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Google’s newest offering. Termed Google Drive, it’s laden with quite a few big expectations- not the least of which is the belief that it might well help Google breathe some new life into its currently ailing, somewhat lackluster Chromebooks. But just what is drive? And what can you use it for? To make a...

Recently on Reddit, an admitted botnet operator/malware coder opened up a "Ask Me Anything" so anyone could ask him why he does what he does. In the description of the Q&A, he actually gave some great advice on how to prevent yourself from being subject to what’s known as "driveby" malware infections: Protip against driveby...

What is 802.11ac? It’s the wireless networking standard that will, hopefully, allow high throughput in the 5GHz band; this is a notable improvement over 802.11n-2009 (a.k.a. Wireless N), because while N does have a 5GHz mode, most people have had only a "fair" experience with that standard. More often than not, most people are only able to...

So, I have a confession to make. Until fairly recently, I actually didn’t do all that much on Reddit. I had friends who were on it continually, and they’d talk about it all the time. They knew the latest trends, were keyed in to the latest memes, and any joke I showed them, they’d already seen or heard it. It was actually kind of bothersome-...

It is unfortunate in this day and age that as much as the internet has progressed, it is still exceedingly difficult to actually close, a.k.a. delete an account for almost any given web service. Why is it so difficult to close accounts? Because the way most user databases are designed simply don’t allow it. If you’re user #492862, your account...

"Media" in this context refers to video and audio format, such as MP4, AVI, 3GP and so on. My mainstay format conversion utility was WinFF, which is essentially nothing more than a graphical front-end for FFMPEG. Whenever you want to convert anything to anything no matter if you’re running Windows, Mac or Linux, FFMPEG is more or less...