by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | DATA, GMAIL, Technical Support
Whitson Gordon These days, it’s hard to get by with just one email address. If you want to sync your contacts between all your email accounts, it’s actually very easy to do with a free tool called Soocial. Here’s how. We’ve talked about Soocial...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | DATA, HAPPINESS, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the no-learning-for-you dept. The Bandwidth Divide is a form of what economists call the Red Queen effect referring to a scene in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass when Alice races the Red Queen. As the Red Queen tells Alice: ‘It takes all the...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, Data Recovery, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Once you’ve gone through a few computers, you probably have more than a few old hard drives lying around. You don’t have to let them go to waste, though! Here’s how to combine multiple hard drives into one, huge volume that’ll hold just about...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA
Cloud storage is everywhere, but if you don’t want to mess around with keeping your data on someone else’s computer, or you simply don’t want to pay for it, DIYer Dominic came up with a solution to use his own computer as a DIY remote storage system...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the launch-into-orbit,-i-hope dept. “Starting next week, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could force them to complete educational programs, and even slow their Internet speeds to a crawl. A source with...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technicals
Microsoft has been in business, in one form or another, for 37 years. In the tech world, that’s an eternity. Which isn’t to say Microsoft has remained static over that time. Regulatory pressures, strategic shifts in software and hardware, the rise of new...