13th August 2006
When adware started as a business model, most people really didn't like it. They saw it as a threat to the future of free software, and actively campaigned against it. Today, however, many people are more accepting of adware, because they've turned their ...
13th August 2006
Unfortunately, if you're just now registering a domain name, you're coming to it a little late. People have been buying up names in huge numbers for almost a decade now, and there's almost nothing left.
It often takes people a little while to grasp the...
13th August 2006
Let me tell you a little story about television. Once upon a time, TV pictures were terribly fuzzy. If you wanted to make them better, you had to wave around an antenna – sometimes it was on top of your TV, and sometimes on top of your house! Then, not so...
13th August 2006
Satellite and cable each have their advantages and their drawbacks. Put simply, you can pick up satellite signals from anywhere on the Earth, but they're subject to all sorts of interference, especially weather, and the picture isn't always that great. Ca...
13th August 2006
More and more, old-style analogue cable is falling by the wayside – many cable providers have even turned it off altogether. It's being replaced by digital cable, the new generation of cable that allows up to ten times as many channels to be sent down tha...
13th August 2006
A few years ago, it was common to buy your phone service from a phone company, your Internet connection from an ISP, and your cable TV from a cable company. Sometimes all these services used the same connection, but more often they didn't.
Recently, ho...
13th August 2006
As camcorders come down in price, they're becoming an option for people who up until now had been satisfied with normal cameras. While camcorders will never replace photography, however, there are plenty of good reasons to have one, especially if you can ...
13th August 2006
When you first get a digital camcorder, it can be a little overwhelming trying to figure out how to use it. Sure, the basics come naturally, but it's all too easy to make mistakes – and if you've just bought the camcorder to record something important to ...
13th August 2006
For a long time, digital camcorders have been limited in all sorts of ways by the fact that they have to use removable media. The camcorder has to be big enough that the media can fit inside, you have to buy the media and remember to carry it around with ...
13th August 2006
You could be forgiven for not knowing what domain names are. You use them every day, but it's a technical term, and not one that you really need to do unless you plan to get one of your very own. Put simply, domain names are website addresses, although in...
13th August 2006
Once you've decided what to put on your business cards, you still have plenty of decisions left to make. Are you going to design them yourself or get a professional? Are you going to print them on a home printer, in a shop, or order them over the web? All...
13th August 2006
If you want a website, then before you do anything else, you're going to need to get some web hosting.
You might not be too sure exactly how the web works, but don't worry – it's quite complicated, and you don't really need to know about it until you w...
13th August 2006
Back in the day, the only things you could really put on your website were hand-coded pages, images, and maybe the occasional file download. Today, however, huge amounts of software exist that can make your website work however you want it to – and, thank...
13th August 2006
While free web hosting that lets you do anything is hard to find, free services that do one thing well are becoming more and more common. Instead of shelling out for a web host, it can be very effective to just use the same username at a few different sit...
13th August 2006
Mention Amsterdam, and you get a certain reaction – drugs, red light districts are the first things that come to mind. There's a lot more to Amsterdam than that, though, as you'll see if you go there.
Amsterdam has a long and rich history, full of ups ...
