Science has proven that nearly every single human possesses a sadistic side. I totally agree - few things work better to brighten up your day than a prank with friends or colleagues. Today we’re focusing on two simple nerdy pranks. We’ll start by laying out two basic rules - to ensure so...

So, How I Met Your Mother hasn’t been on for the last two weeks. I’m going through withdrawal. I’m also getting increasingly annoyed, because I sit down to watch TV at the designated time and there’s no show on. Or, maybe even worse, a repeat. Why can’t there be a way t...

This amazing technology called the World Wide Web has been in the mainstream for just a little over 10 years, yet we are already taking it for granted. Much like we take the natural world around us for granted. Every once in a while though you’ll stop and stare at the sky, or be struck by the beau...

In my day-to-day 9 to 5 job I have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro. Yes it is expensive but it gets the job done quickly and properly when it has anything to do with PDF creation, modification and filling out forms.  But not everyone has such an expensive software suite installed on their machine. So w...

Written by Darrell Etherington. There is very little reason to depend on a hard drive-based application for your word processing needs these days. Google Docs provides everything most users will ever need; you already have it if you have a Gmail account, and it works offline, thanks to Google Gears....

PicASCII è un servizio online che permette di convertire una immagine in testo ASCII. Occorre caricare una immagine (gif, jpeg, png) dal proprio hard-disk oppure basta indicarne l’URL. E’ possibile scegliere la dimensione e se attivare o meno il colore. Il risultato generato può essere...

gifninja is a website that lets you create animated gifs quickly and easily.  You can either create an animated gif from individual images or by uploading a video. gifninja also provides you with a nice utility to split an animated gif into separate images. To convert a video to an animated gif, yo...

The size of software and games these days can be quite a bother. Although internet connections are getting faster as well, downloading a few gigabytes is never met with too much joy. More and more do we see an evolution of some kind, and do we meet a world where installing stuff becomes a thing of t...

Social media is becoming completely integrated in our lives.  It has altered the way we communicate as human beings and changed the way we do business.  It has flattened corporate hierarchies and tightened our relationships.  Of course, traditional ways of networking and messaging still hold true...

Without a doubt, one of my favorite features in Google Reader is the ability to share interesting articles with my friends, as well as receive interesting articles from them.  When you share common interests with others, the information you get from shared items is often more interesting that the m...