Ironically, despite the low prices of PC games on Steam, I’ve ended up spending more than I budgeted over the last few months. Those discounts are very tempting, and the fact that Steam is coming out with more games every week—especially classic titles like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic— isn’t really helping.
Recently however, I’ve realized my compulsion to buy stems from the slick marketing process built into Steam’s interface. By default, you are presented with the home page of Steam store once you load the client. Sometimes a pop-up appears, upon start-up or after exiting a game, detailing …read more

Sure, the video below says surfing for seniors, but this unconsciously hilarious video is actually a great learning tool for that rare friend or family member who has absolutely no idea what the internet is about—much less use it:
The hilarious text starts off thus:
Welcome to Surfing for Seniors: An Introduction to the Internet
If you’re not comfortable with your computer, you may need to play this tape and practice many times.
The mouse is made to fit in the palm of your hard. Rest your hand on the rounded top, and push. You will see how the pointer on your screen moves …read more

A great way to maximize your vacation expenses is to use your camera to save memorable moments for posterity. This could be photos of you and your loved ones, with a wonderful vista set as the backdrop.

But no one said you could snap these vistas without anyone posing in the foreground and use them as wallpapers. Better yet, if you have your own website(s), you can offer these home-made wallpapers as downloads to attract readers to your online properties.
Sometimes you come by these wallpaper opportunities thanks to pure luck. After a night of drinking at the beach, I ended up …read more

So what do you get from the collective wisdom of hackers bunched within the same area? Why, tips on safer computing of course! Software security engineer Jeff Forristal asked people during the last pwn2own what your average user can do to better protect Internet Explorer from hacker activities. Here’s what they came up with.

My family’s pretty close. To the point that I know my parents or sister will help out if something really really bad were to happen to me. We also happen to all live in the same city.
So the numbers of parents and siblings are the first items on my must-have cellphone numbers. The point of this list to make it easy for any of companions to call for help if, again, something really really bad were to happen to me. I’d rather my friends would know who to call as I lay unconscious while bleeding all over the floor. They …read more