Instant messaging has been very popular for quite some time now. Although services like Twitter have somewhat tarnished the appeal of IM, chatting with your friends on Google Talk or Yahoo Messenger is not going away any time soon. Here are some of the top tips and tricks that you can use to get mor...

Windows Explorer, for any Windows user, is a key component of your computer-based life. It’s where you put files, where you find stuff, and how you manage everything on your computer. Which is unfortunate, because Windows Explorer is a terrible application. It’s bad at tracking where you...

Delicious was the first site that introduced me to the social bookmarking phenomenon. There have been many clones since then but social bookmarking has always been Delicious to me. The concept is simple and genius: you can bookmark any page for further reference, quickly find it when you need it usi...

Photoshop is hard. There’s all kinds of menus, commands, and keyboard shortcuts that you’ve got to figure out. Once you learn how it works, it’s an unbelievably useful and powerful tool, but the learning curve is enormous. Using the Web though, you can learn how to do just about an...

Internet research is something that is undervalued and unappreciated by most journalists in the mainstream media, but online research tools now offer Internet-savvy journalists with the ability to conduct powerful research on the internet. Usually, those who frown upon the quality of Internet resear...

Flying’s no one’s favorite thing. Unless you’re a pilot. But for most of us, flying’s little more than a hassle. Most of the annoyance of flying is due to the airport - checking in, security, terrible food, no outlets, and the like. Time spent getting a ticket and waiting for...

When I was in elementary school I was very annoyed by all this studying. But my idea and hope was that once I was done with school, I would also be done learning. I couldn’t wait. Thus I was rather irritated when I heard that my dad had to complete training for his job to learn new things. I r...

Like it or not, Twitter has become a huge phenomenon. Some even say this micro-blogging platform has threatened the life of blogs, especially those personal ones. Of course I won’t say it goes as far as that, but it’s a good idea to keep both of them close together, so that either side d...

The last few years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of BitTorrent users and the content that is available via BitTorrent. Nowadays it is no big deal if you can find a TV Show on BitTorrent before it has premiered on TV. The number of sites indexing and searching BitTorrent files have kept...

If you are a quick fingered photo-snapper or a wallpaper junkie then the thousand of images on your hard drive could be a treasure hoard. But scattered among them could also be a few hundred duplicate images eating up space on your hard drive. Even worse, un-optimized raw images could be eating up c...