Category: Internet
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The Future of the Internet in the USA sans Net Neutrality
When you use the internet you expect to be connected to any website of your choice. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) shouldn’t be messing with data, applications, and content, the user should be in control. Net Neutrality made this happen which prohibits ISPs from speeding up or slowing down, obstructing any content, apps or website…
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How to add Same Files in Multiple Google Drive Folders without Copying
Delving deeper inside Google Drive, experts have found out that Gmail actually works through the concept of using tags or labels, therefore giving every file or folder to have a parent folder of its own. This is the main reason why the file in one folder doesn’t exist in the other folder. But since most…
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How to Help Yourself Fight Facebook Addiction
There’s a new kind of addiction in town, that is, social networking site addiction, Facebook being the most notorious one. Nowadays, it’s somewhat habit-forming for most internet users to update their Facebook accounts with almost anything, things that most of us usually regard as somewhat ‘rubbish’. Memories involved in those moments are nonetheless very precious…
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How Do Ads Follow Me Around When I’m Online?
Nowadays, it’s only common for internet surfers to see loads of online advertisements whenever they visit their online social accounts or browse the web. This is due to the fact that Google, the most frequently-used search engine also has an advertising company of its own, which is known by the name of AdSense. To bloggers…
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What is ‘Brute-Force’ Password Hacking?
When we say hacking, most of us think that it is gaining access to a remote computer system that is usually done in an illegal way. Since every computer now requires everyone to enter a password to gain access, there are now various methods used by hackers in order to get those. However, only three…
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How Does a Spammer get Email Addresses?
Nowadays, you must have experienced the time that you’ve become so frustrated because of lots of special product offers inside your email address. What’s more confusing is that some emails are somewhat personalized, using terms such as ‘Dear John/Jane Doe’ or something to that effect. It can be accepted if you only have at least…
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Black Hat vs. White Hat Hackers: What’s the Difference?
Looking way back three decades, the word hacking actually means ‘Becoming a well-known expert in any trade for the sake of education’. This could mean that any expert can actually be called a hacker. However, in the present age, hacking is usually equated with only one thing: Computer Access. Nowadays, hacking is usually related…
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The Greatest Computer and Internet Hacks in History
No matter how advanced the internet and computers nowadays would be, chances are that they can still be hacked. This is the reason why companies are doing various software updates and patches for their software and other computer products. The truth is, hacking has a very good meaning since it concerns expertise on the craft…
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Best VPN Providers as of Date
Due to the fact that the Internet isn’t safe anymore as most of used to enjoy, more and more people are now using the security features that a Virtual Private Network provides. To those who didn’t know a VPN is a security feature that actually works the same as call bouncing during the early phase…
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Preferred and Alternate DNS Servers: What’s the Difference?
You must have been surfing the internet for years now and encounter these terms but you still don’t know what DNS means. To those who didn’t know, the DNS or Domain Name System is the organization of every computer Internet Protocol addresses on the internet, therefore allowing the computers from different places to communicate with…