I was reading today news about San Francisco airport allowing passengers to buy their carbon footprint equivalent to the distance they're traveling. It seems a noble idea, as the money are then spent on projects meat to diminish carbon emissions. The idea of buying carbon footprint, carbon quota (if
Ebook readers are not a new thing, as such devices exist for a few years already, but Amazon Kindle is the one that started up the madness, mostly because of the advanced wireless delivery options of the ebooks (and other supported media) and it was backed up by Amazon, the biggest online retailer.
First, what is URL shortening? It's a technique used to reduce the number of characters an URL has. Once loaded, the shorter URL redirects the browser to the page stored at the long URL path location. There are a number of reasons why URL shortening is useful and dangerous at the same time. URL s
People say the Internet is the best and cheap place to start a business as you don't need a big pile of cash to start your future meals provider. You need 10$ for a domain name, 5-10 more for your first month of hosting (in a shared environment) and a PC connected to Internet. That's all, you're now
The database of your blog is one of the most important things to remember to backup from now and then. The database contains your posts and links to the images/videos and other things (non text) that your post contains. Without it there's no way you could restore your blog after a crash/hack or natu
I almost laughed when I heard the other day they Google Wave is the thing that will replace email as our primarily means of communicating online. I don't want to say that Google Wave is a bad thing, not at all, but don't expect it to break the 20 + years of daily sending emails (email was invente
I know the title is a little bit strong and you might not agree with its meaning but I'll do my best and explain myself plus I will give you the usual list of reasons I believe the Internet alienates people from each other. This is a serious matter, that's why I thought of bringing this discussion u
As you might know Microsoft is having in beta testing for a few months a free version antivirus, spyware and malware program called Microsoft Security Essentials. Yesterday that program came out of Beta and is available for download to anyone. Of cours, as with all free stuff it caused quite a sti
Aren’t you bored of Winamp? Don’t you want something new on your PC, a player that brings something new, that looks different? You should know there are some alternatives. Winamp is not the only audio player on Earth. If you’re tired of the Winamp dictatorship, let’s see together what are th
Defragmentation is not a term taken from the atomic physics, but one you can find any time in the tools list of any operating system. In Windows XP can be found in the System Tools/Disk Defragmenter menu, which means disk defragmentation. In Vista you go to the Start Menu and write “Defragmenterâ
