"How-to" Blogs & Blog Posts

A recently published study by three researchers at Harvard examines how and why people make friends on social networks. The study shows that people who share an interest in music and movies are most likely to friend each other. Having a similar inter...

These days, it seems that we spend more time uploading and sharing photos to multiple websites than actually interacting with the people we're sharing with. That is, unless you get on board with an online service called Pixelpipe, which enables you t...

2012 is upon us, and a lot of people—people like Gina Trapani, Tim O'Reilly, and Ev Williams—are planning a New Year's resolution of an Information Diet. Here are some tips for how you can get started. via lifehacker...

Back in October, I compared the various online streaming services here and Netflix looked like it had the most offerings. But what if you want to search across multiple providers for your streaming content, and find out which one offers you the best...

Ten years ago, a laptop was an expensive and specialist purchase, but today it's become an everyday item widely used as people's primary work device. That casualness breeds complacency and that leads to leaving a laptop on the train, unattended in a...

Waiting for a Google Plus invite? Google is rolling out the service in waves and you can expect it to become a ubiquitous social option in the coming months. We have been playing with the service since getting invites yesterday and there are a lot of...

Web design is such a broad field that mistakes can be spotted all over the place – it is almost impossible to deliver a product without a mistake until you undergo full testing, which not everybody has the financial power or time to do. These mista...