I love spam, don’t you? It’s always entertaining, great fodder for a blog post, and provides insights into the workings of the human mind. Take the new wave spam that’s entering mailboxes by the million around the world right now.…

Want to get hold of content for your Amazon Kindle Reader but not living in the US? You could make a trip or ask a friend of relative to do the business, but there is a much simpler way and…

Editor’s block - it’s the opposite of writer’s block. We’ve all been there. You’re staring at a 3000-word draft when all that’s required is a 300 word executive summary. You’ve deleted a few superlatives, stripped away the prepositions, and reworded…

Worried you’re spending too much time social network online instead of living in the real world? Make sure to watch through the end-credits for the hyper-obvious punchline…

If you’re particularly worried about your online psyche, check out my earlier post on…

One thing you should avoid (well two things actually) are using letters A and B to assign a drive letter to your external drives and cards as Windows thinks of these two letters as floppy drives (remember those?) and will disable…

I’ve always had a bit of a hybrid setup for email, and I suspect you’re the same. Various legacy email accounts from defunct or abandoned ISPs and old jobs you rarely check but don’t want to abandon just in case…

If you’re like me then you’re an avid user of Google Reader for subscribing to RSS newsfeeds. When you click an orange RSS icon, Google Reader should fire up automatically (or you may be presented with an options page depending…

It is almost lifelong quest for many people: how to feel happy with the way you look naked…

That thought can apply to your blog or website too, lots of your visitors have NoScript running in Firefox, which automatically blocks lots…

Well, most Wordpress users will be aware by now (because of the dashboard alert, at least) that version 2.6 of their favorite blogging software was just unleashed into the wild. The release happened a month ahead of schedule, although I…

Some time ago, I offered a few reasons why you should remove Firefox add-ons to improve your browser’s security, but what I didn’t do in that particular post was go into details on how you should remove those add-ons, also known…

Recently, I discussed how you might boost your blog using an expiring domain name. The crucial word is “expiring”. I don’t think it’s a good idea to go for an expired domain name.

The reasons for not going for an expired…

If, like me, you’ve upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress for your blog, then you will no doubt have used the spiffy new image uploader. Unless you don’t have a Wordpres blog or post images, of course. Anyway, in…

Want more newsfeed readers for your blog? Of course, you do! Everyone does, despite the Feedburner myth and proclamations from Copyblogger that feedcounts are bogus.

So how do you get more feed subscribers?

Friend of the blog William Gunn tells us the basics: “If…

There are few laws that cross national boundaries particularly when it comes to cyberspace. Indeed, there probably never will be an all-encompassing international system of rules and regulations that can cope with the net.

There are, of course, national laws aimed…

A lot of Sciencetext visitors are searching for the phrase “GTalk Cannot Open Websense”. Well, GTalk is Google’s instant messenger application, in case you didn’t know already, but you may not have heard of Websense. Websense is a web security and…

What’s the best password to use for your login? You wouldn’t use any of the following would you?

Your partner’s name
Your child’s name
Your pet’s name
Any of the last digits from your social security number
123456
“password”
Your city
Your college
Your football team
Your date of birth
Your…

Fancy free and full access to magazines, such as Car & Driver, Men’s Health, Penthouse (whatever that is), Popular Mechanics, and PC Magazine? Well, Amit Agarwal over on Digital Inspiration reveals a neat hack that involves changing your web browser settings…