By Mark O’Neill The thing about instant messaging programs such as Pidgin and Skype is that their sounds suck. Their chat services may be the best thing since pop-tarts but it doesn’t take long for their sound effects to grate on your nerves. You know, the audio notifications that you’ve got a new message, that […]
By Mark O’Neill A recent comment by Melyvn on one of my past articles got me thinking. The article was about the built-in MP3 player in Gmail and Melyvn asked if it was possible for podcasts to be delivered directly to email. My instinctive reply was “no” but then I thought “was it actually possible?”. […]
By Mark O’Neill For the past few years, I’ve been using AVG Anti-Virus to keep my computer safe from viruses, but deep down, I’m a pretty paranoid kind of guy. Even if AVG gives a file the all-clear, I’m often left wondering, what if AVG is wrong? What if AVG was sleeping on the job […]
By Mark O’Neill These days, with 6GB+ Gmail accounts and unlimited Yahoo accounts, email addresses are being used for more than just email. Many people email themselves backups of many things including important documents, music, photos, video files and much more. This way, they are not screwed if the original copy is destroyed or goes missing. Plus […]
By Patrick Biz Contributing Writer, [GAS] Geeks hate listening to commercial radio on their way to work. Hollywood gossip and local news are not the types of content computer-savvy people are raving about. What if, come Monday morning, you’re in the mood for tech news? Then on Tuesday’s commute, you want home theater reviews, and […]
There are few people who work with the Internet who understand how truly vulnerable and weak the core infrastructure really is. Nothing demonstrates this basic weakness better than the troubles experienced by YouTube over the past weekend when Pakistan, under orders from its government, put new BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) entries in one of their […]
By Mark O’Neill If the previously-mentioned FlickrSpy wasn’t enough to whet your voyeuristic appetites, then here is something else you can try out – SurveillanceSaver. This is a free PC screensaver which, when activated, will show you a random selection of webcam streaming images from all over the world. When I tried it out, I […]
By Mark O’Neill The British TV channel “Channel 4” has brought out on their website an online detective role-playing game called “Bow Street Runner” which invites you to solve a murder in 18th century London. Named after the group which were the predecessors to the modern day London police force, this free game is remarkably […]