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Some people may tell you that violence solves nothing. Me? I think violence is great… as long as I’m not at the receiving end. I’m not much for violence, maybe because I’m a scrawny little kid. However, acc...
Do you like having a picture taken of you? I don’t mind, as long as I’m not asked to smile. (Seriously, why do people want to see my yellow teeth?!) Apparently there is one sea turtle hat does not appreciate humans pho...
Windows Store may only have a few thousand apps when Windows 8 is launched but Windows 8 tablets and PCs running on AMD processors will have access to hundreds of thousands of more apps. Hundreds of thousands of Android apps and g...
Over the years people have accused Bing of copying Google, or at least making changes to Bing that make it appear to be more Google-ish. With a new change to Google.com, it may actually be Google copying Bing. I was running a sear...
…by mistake, that is. The Canadian government’s Department of Finance has been running ads on the Internet in support of its “Economic Action Plan”. One on these ads made its way to The Pirate Bay. Since Th...
Ever notice some people have a tendency to blame computer problems on viruses? If anything ever goes wrong with a computer, a virus must be responsible. It doesn’t matter if the computer is infected or not, or if the reason ...
From 1976 to 2007 the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada was known as the world’s tallest building, standing at 553.3 m (1,815 ft). In 2007 the CN Tower was passed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Coming in at an...
Ever lose something while traveling? Maybe you forgot it at a security checkpoint or the item disappeared from your baggage. If a passenger does forget their things at checkpoints then TSA agents are supposed to contact the passen...
My how has Apple changed since the departure of Steve Jobs. Remember antennagate with the iPhone 4? It took Apple weeks to even acknowledge a problem and then when they did acknowledge, they took longer to come up with a fix and n...
Valve hates Windows 8, Blizzard Entertainment isn’t very enthusiastic about Windows 8, and a user interface expert feels Windows 8 is a “cognitive burden” on people. Who else is a Windows 8 naysayer? How about th...
PlaceRaider. The name sounds like a gamer tag someone would use on Xbox. It isn’t a gamer tag, however. (Well it might be but not in the context of this article.) PlaceRaider is the name of a new malware developed by Robert ...
“I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO” — every see such ads? If you live in the United States, I bet you have whether that be on your TV or your computer (such as on Hulu). If y...
We humans enjoy hitting the hot tub every now and then. (Or maybe more frequently, for some of you entitled folks.) As do monkeys, it seems. The following photograph is of snow monkeys, also known as Japanese macaque, enjoying a n...
With the shift from physical publication to Internet publication in full swing, for the past few years major newspapers, magazines, and other sources of media have hid themselves behind a “pay wall” — a monthly s...