The NYT’s David Pogue was shocked to see a computer user in a publishing house actually click and drag to select a single word in a document…it got him thinking about some of the basic tips and tricks everyone who…

Three of the UK’s biggest internet service providers - Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk - allegedly sell your private web browsing history to an advertising broker using a system called Phorm. The contents of every web page you visit, apparently,…

If you are reading the original English version, albeit with a quasi-transatlantic twang, then you probably think of English as being the lingua franca of global communications. After all, in almost every sphere of human endeavor, the world over, it seems…

I was hunting and pecking around the web for a photo of fellow science blogger Mike Dunford, whom I had met at SciBlog2008. Obviously, I knew his Authority blog address, but the picture on there was showing blank. More than…

I use Thunderbird as my main archival email program, but I also run several GMail (Google Mail accounts). After reinstalling my browser and activating Google Toolbar, I discovered that it had somehow hijacked the mailto links in web pages. This…