Back when I was in college, Quake (the first one) was the game that everyone played over the network. In fact I don’t think I ever played it in single player mode. While playing games we would sometimes organize ourselves into teams and play against each other. However, we really didn’t have any way to [...]

When WinPatrol offered their software for $0.99 last week, I believe the author was playing to impulse buyers. This would explain why ring tones, iPhone apps and individual song downloads offered for $1 are so successful, because people will spend a dollar without thinking.
So what is your “impulse buy” price point for software?
Personally, I think [...]

Whenever you purchase a typical run of the mill home wireless router you have 2 choices for the type of security, WEP and WPA. While it is important to protect your wireless network, it is also important to know that both WPA and WEP passwords can be easily cracked. Just do a Google search and [...]

Google Safe Browsing is enabled by default in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. This is what both browsers use to determine whether a web site is "safe" or not to display.
You can use this feature independently in any browser. This is especially useful if you’re ever on a PC with an older browser with [...]

It’s known that I don’t necessarily agree with the way Google does things at times, particularly in the realm of consumer privacy. But this doesn’t mean I don’t use Google products, because there are certain services they have that definitely do get it right the first time.
Google Maps
This is the best mapping product on the [...]

If you have an extensive collection of digital music, having a music library program is an absolute must. While there are many established players out there (Winamp, iTunes, Song Bird, etc.), one which you might want to look at is MusicBee.
MusicBee is a free music library program which offers a pretty impressive feature set, including:

CD [...]

Based on the commentary from my last article, nobody (or at least the ones that commented) likes IE too much these days. I wasn’t surprised by this.
For you IE haters out there, I have alternatives. No, I’m not talking about Firefox, Opera or Safari because you already know all about those. What I’m talking about [...]