Posts from 'Internet' category

Competition is the engine of progress in any domain, including on the internet. The best proof for this is that Google needed to launch its own social network in order for Facebook to change the most radically in its history.After in the last days a few small updates copied from the Google Plus model were introduced Facebook released the major changes it will make to its social network and whi...

I'm one of the Youtube users who like to also contribute by uploading videos from time to time (here's my channel btw), but unfortunately I live in Canada where high speed Internet is just a marketing tactics, with no real support. So on my 2Mbits upload connection (roughly 256 kB/s) it takes around  4000 seconds to upload an 8-9 minutes long HD clip, that if the connection doesn't drop, which ne...

Let's say you've been around the Internet for a decade or so. If that's the case most probably you've witnessed the birth and death of lots of web technologies and you use some of the services considered geeky by normal consumers. One such technology is RSS (Really Simple Syndication) that allows you to build a centralized place to read news and updates by adding RSS feeds to your reader program...

I was wondering today when I read the news about Microsoft leaking, ‘by mistake’, their social network name and a few screenshots, if we do really need so many social networks.You might argue that it’s important to be present on all popular services like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ recently, LinkedIn, Flickr and so on, but first question that should pop up into our heads should be: is it ...

Cellphone ringtones are a big thing for many people, being one of the easiest way to customize your mobile. It's a form of expression which also has the benefit of being able to identify a certain caller by the way your phone rings, before take it out from your pockets, in the case of phones supporting assigning ringtones to contacts. While searching for 'free ringtones' on Google will reveal tons...

Sometimes I feel we're not making any progress when it comes to Internet speed, as more and more ISPs are trying to impose bandwidth caps and make us pay extra for every bit of data over that monthly limit. You can argue all you want that extra bandwidth costs more, but it's not the case, as many studies have discovered. Also consider that a lot of users are not using their Internet connection so ...

Every day we use a diversity of communication channels such as the phone, mail, instant messaging and social networks, according to the situation we are in. What if we had all our contacts gathered in a place in order to communicate faster?Digsby offers you a solution: you can communicate simultaneously over more instant message accounts (Yahoo Messenger, MSN, AIM, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, ...

Who would have thought we would reach the point at which we are able to sell and buy our work force online?Are you looking for a job but you do not want to work 8 hours a day in a 9 to 5 race in an office where you will probably fight with your boss? No problem, because there is another way. Create an account on freelancer.com, complete the domains in which you have knowledge and see what proj...

It took a long time for Mozilla to launch Firefox 4, but the jump from version four to Firefox 5 took only a few months, following organization's commitment to launch major versions faster. That's always a good thing, on paper, and only played out well for Google with its Chrome browser so far. Hope Mozilla manages to keep the rhythm and not embarrass itself.Anyway, today is the day of the Fir...

Whether you want to test the claims of your ISP (Internet Service Provider) or just make sure you eliminate the Internet connection as the cause for a choppy videochat conversation, it's always useful to know and to be able to test your Internet speed connection. For this purpose an Internet speed test is required and while there are quite a few options out there, none of them is as fast, accurat...