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Internet Apps Coming to A HDTV Near You!

If you thought that HDTVs were meant for just watching stuff, you'd be surprised to learn that soon, you'll be able to access a gamut of online apps via your HDTV set. ...

Why Not Carve a Geeked-Out Pumpkin?

Certain times of year make us proud to be geeks. May 25th (Geek pride Day), March 14th (Pi Day) and now, Halloween. We're seeing so many cool ways to geek out our fall fest......

Money Saving Tip: Share WiFi With Neighbors

A fast internet connection is a pricey expense, but one we can't imagine living without. The great thing about it is that no matter how many people share it, it's never 'used up'......

Connect Work and Home Machines with iTwin

Why is everything branded with an 'i' these days? We don't know. But what the iTwin lacks in naming creativity, it more than makes up for in usefulness. Think of it as the remote desktop taken to anot...

Improve Laptop Battery Life with the Right Browser

It looks like we're not the only ones seeing the decline of laptop battery life over time. However, there are tips and tricks out there to help you counter battery drain as much as possible (or at lea...

How to Get Free Airport WiFi

There's nothing worse than being stuck in an airport for a few hours with nothing to do. You'd expect to be able to boot up your laptop and get some free WiFi, but that's just not happening in all air...

Tech Tip: Clean Connections With A Coffee Filter

We've had some slow running internet lately and although we've just had new service installed, we still seem to be having a little lag. After checking that all the cables are actually functioning an...

Using an Ikea Strainer to Boost WiFi While Traveling

When you are traveling in other countries, you become reliant on free WiFi hotspots. No one wants to use their credit card to get access to the internet. Since multiple WiFi networks can permeate the ...

Internet Watchdog: 40 Online Stores Caught In Fraud

Hey, don't say we didn't warn you. If you're an online shopper and happen to have recently dealt with one of these shady online retailers, you might be able to receive some restitution if they tried t...

MakeUseOf's 5 Ways to Propose With the Internet

So you've found the girl or guy of your dreams. You both love playing Tetris, defragging hard drives and taking long walks on the beach with your iPods on. You're ready to take the plunge and ask your...

Look! I-Aroma: Adds Smell to Your Internet Experience

Most of us spend a lot of time online without really realizing how much our senses can get dulled by this daily routine. It's been proven that we need to use our senses to develop them. Web browsing a...

Techno-Gong: Hiding Gadgets In Plain Sight

One of the things that we really like is the fact when some of our devices are hidden in plain sight. Don't get us wrong, we love our gadgets, but sometimes it's just better to have them hidden away t...

TV Widgets: Coming Soon to an Internet TV Near You

For all you integrated technology streamliners (you know, the OCD types who must have their tech working in tandem throughout their daily lives) - yeah, we know we're probably one of those folks - we...

What Tech Would You Take Back In Time?

On the hypothetical list of "Tech I Want To See In My Lifetime," a time machine is right up there at number one. Not because I want to go back in time and stop Kennedy's assassination or scare the liv...

Final Frame: The History of the Internet

We've come a long way, baby......

This Lent, Italian Catholics Urge a Tech Purge

We first saw the concept blow up among our group of friends—both Catholic and not—last year during Lent: In the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter, when you're asked to give up a vic...

The Lifespan of a Web Site

Lately, like a kid who just lost a favorite pet, we've been thinking about mortality. Don't worry—we're not getting that deep. We've been thinking about the life and death of our favorite Web si...

How To: Test If Your ISP Is Throttling Your Internet

After hearing all this hubbub about Comcast's violation towards net neutrality with BitTorrent throttling, we had to take a closer look into the matter. Using Google's new tools, located at Measuremen...

How To: Double Your Internet Browsing Speed on Firefox

There have been tons of Firefox hacks out there that have been covered to death, but we've recently taken some time out and run a side-by-side comparison on a couple of identical computers from the sh...

Would you Rather Give Up Sex or the Internet?

I consider myself to be a very bad decision maker. For instance, in the drive-thru line, I think I know exactly what I want, but I'll inevitably change my mind 4,000 times before I approach the speake...

When Your Bills are Late and the Bank's Web Site is Down

Nothing is more frustrating than when somebody breaks the internet. Whether it's your personal connection faltering or a bandwidth issue on the server's end, it always seems that the very moment you n...

7 Tips to Speed Up Your Web Browsing

No matter how much time, money and energy you put into ensuring that your home internet connection is as fast as it can possibly be, you will inevitably be somewhere with a snail-speed connection when...

Vase Router Does More for Shelves than Sit Behind DVDs

Sitting in front of us on our Ikea Expedit bookcase right behind our collection of DVDs (the blue ones, arranged by color as per an AT suggestion), is our standard antenna-adorned black box of a wirel...

How to Create Secure and Memorable Network Passwords

We were at a friends house last night for a little bit of mid-week relaxation (read: drinking a Margarita) last night, but we brought along our laptop because we also had a little off-topic research t...

Internet Addiction: It's Real and We Think We Have It

Are you addicted to the internet? How do you know? We figured out that we were hooked when we found ourselves refreshing a blog page over and over several times a day to try and read new posts as soon...

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