You’re back from a long day at the office and life sucks. Your back hurts, your wrists feel like stiff, numb boards of wood, and your eyes feel like they’re just about ready to pop out of your skull.  As an added bonus, you can’t move your neck without sharp pain shooting through your body. Computers are great, but the health problems that can...

This is an example of where the internet did things wrong. There are a lot of things it does right, but the stinkers stick out, and this is one of them. Originally, any system that required a user ID asked you what you wanted for a screen name. Simple systems only allowed letters and/or numbers. Advanced ones allowed letters, numbers, dashes (-) and underscores...

Something that continually makes an appearance in modern gaming (usually with larger titles) are Easter eggs that feature some sort of retro computing thing. Maybe it’s an interface, maybe it’s a whole mini-system of sorts, etc. Here’s an example of retro in a modern game:With the non-gaming stuff we do with computers, as much as the industry...

Everyone was excited about it. Tech geeks touted it as “The Facebook Killer.” The blogosphere was abuzz about a better chat system, a better interface, and Google Hangouts. Now, it’s all but forgotten in the minds of many. Though one hundred million may have Google + accounts…how many of them are actually active? When’s the last...

A temporary technology failure is when something you use breaks but you really, really need it working in order to get something done; the standard thing to do here is to use your backup method as a temporary workaround. However most people simply don’t have a backup, and that’s where you get figuratively stuck in a corner. If you don’t...

It’s standard advice to run the latest version of whatever web browser of choice you use that your operating system supports; the reasons are for better security and protection against rogue scripts, stability of the app itself, features of newer versions and so on. However if I asked you, the audience, what version of browser you’re using currently,...

Twitter’s great and all, but it does have its problems. One issue I’ve always had is that there’s really no way to schedule your tweets. If you want to post an interesting story about something, you’re posting it now, or you’re going to have to come back later. What if you want to spread your tweets out over the course of the day,...

Green computing’s all the rage lately, isn’t it? Seems every single tech business in existence is currently competing to see who can build the greenest data center, who can design the most energy efficient tech, and who can save the most power. But why should corporations do all the work? After all, Earth’s kind of our home, too. We should all...