In an increasingly digital world, vestiges of the romantic past grow increasingly remote and rare. Old-fashioned dating has been supplanted largely by online dating communities such as eHarmony, OKCupid, and Match.com. Beyond these more mainstream (and somewhat accepted) love-finding services, there exists a more secretive, more sex-focused, and location-oriented arena of lustful personal interactions. Nowhere […]
PayPal has long been the standard in sending money electronically between two people. The e-commerce business has also been a stalwart in the SMB website market for accepting credit cards, and PayPal makes it easy for non-profits to accept donations from members. However, PayPal’s user interface has been the same for years and the company […]
This weekend and this weekend only, the entire world is welcome to a festival made up of what are arguably the best movies ever made when the folks at Hulu put the fabulous Criterion Collection online for free (well okay, with commercials, but still, close enough). All of the Criterion movies are regularly available on […]
In 1999, the European Commission came up with the Safer Internet Programme with the goal of promoting safe and responsible use of the internet by children and young adults. In 2004, Safer Internet Day was developed as a special day each year to promote safer use of the internet and online technologies. That day has […]
In case you missed it over the weekend, an exploit was found in Oracle’s JDK7 version of Java that was so bad that it led the United States government to issue a statement suggesting users turn Java off ASAP. That’s a pretty big deal. Oracle rushed a patch out the door, but security experts are […]
Instagram updated its privacy policy and terms of service announcement on Monday with major changes that have caused many users to be up in lo-fi arms. The new policy allows the company to share information about its users with Facebook (which makes sense seeing as Facebook owns Instagram) and outside affiliates, use your pictures without […]
The agony of having to collaborate with people using email attachments is widespread. You receive an email from someone with an Excel workbook attached and need to make edits before sending it back. Now, you have to save the file, make your edits, and then reattach it to a new email. I’ve done this and […]
This past August, Microsoft opened a new retail store in Boston to go along with its one other store in Massachusetts, and several holiday stores have popped up in local malls. Microsoft built a small presentation space into its Boston store with a giant 80-inch touch screen monitor and has been hosting small events open […]
Hi, Yahoo! I still use you for my email because you’re a comfortable old friend. But there’s not much else I want from you. I don’t want Yahoo! search, Yahoo! news, or Yahoo! chat. So, how do you become relevant again? People have moved on from your email service. Gmail is all set with Google, and […]
Jim Cantore, famed American meteorologist for The Weather Channel and pariah of bad weather events, has been spotted outside of Battery Park. Seek shelter, New Yorkers. And every other person living on the East Coast. Don’t let the kind name fool you. Hurricane Sandy is a hell of a storm, and it’s one that most […]
