Well, if this little girl doesn’t have a job waiting for her as a therapist, well, we just don’t know what. This will probably be the best thing you’ll see all day. And really, and truly, someone should pay her for her services. It’s not every day a grade schooler can break down the societal outcomes of the playground which just naturally is an allegory for most of the pivotal moments of our entire lives. “You need to toughen up a bit” should be written in gold somewhere. (And Paul Ryan should wear it today just because.) Continue reading
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Today Comcast announced a doubling of network speeds for the same monthly fee in select markets. If you live in one of those markets here are the easy steps to make sure you activate and verify the faster speeds. Continue reading
Netaddiction.com has a quick test to see if you have an internet addiction. Billing themselves as the “Center for Net Addiction… your resource since 1985,” they claim that 1 in 8 people suffer from this addiction. Hmm. I apparently am an average internet user with a score of 24. Continue reading
At some point, someone, somewhere said that failed Republican presidential candidate, “Herman Cain is the gift that keeps on giving,” and there is no truer statement than that. Continue reading
I bet you don’t have the slightest idea how much you’ve helped the Germans this past year. And all you had to do was sit at your computer and fight with the internet. Continue reading
So, early this morning, BoingBoing.net with some pretty serious accusations towards Google’s falling ethics and a specific bit of fraud that seems to be going on in Kenya. Basically, Kenya does not have a good public business directory. There are no yellow pages and most businesses do not have a web presence. So, a company called Mocality decided they were going to do that. Continue reading
Facebook was first introduced in February 2004; it’s hard for some of us to imagine a time when Facebook wasn’t a part of our morning routine.
First it was exclusive to college students, then it was for high schoolers, and then anyone could join. Ugh! You can thank Zuck for the resulting and endless fiddling with your Facebook privacy settings so Mom and Aunt Lori don’t see your drunk beer funneling pictures from college. Also, I’d like to personally thank Mr. Zuckerburg for my Facebook statuses coming up at Christmas dinner. Duly noted was my excessive use of the word fuck.
Skype wasn’t the first to introduce free computer based voice and video calls but it is one of the most successful. Now that they have been borged by Microsoft they will be introduced to legions of new users who expect Skype to work just as well as Word. Let’s look at some easy ways to ensure that Skype performs up to those expectations.
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Have you ever wondered how many times you’ve visited a website? If you’re using Firefox and haven’t cleared your browsing history (they have a private mode for that you know) then your web browser will tell you.
- Right click on the page background
- Select “View Page Info”
- Click on the Security tab at the top, it’s the one with the lock
- Now read the line that says, “Have I visited this web site prior to today?”
Shout out with your ridiculously high numbers for your favorite websites. This number isn’t an exact science and only goes as far back as the last time you cleared history, but it’s fun to get an idea of how many times you’ve obsessively refreshed a particular site.
Lots of you guys use Facebook. Facebook is notoriously hard to back up. Although I’m not aware of any large server outages, if you post a lot of pictures to Facebook its good to have the important ones saved in a secure place. There are a number of programs you can download that scan through the Facebook directories and download each and every file individually, they’re hard to use. There’s a simple solution.
(Yeah, click the link above. It should be red.)
Follow the directions for the setup, and you’ll soon be on your way. If you have any problems, contact them!