What you Really Bought your iPad for – The Best Free Games
All right, you win. We give in. Yes, you’re interested in browser standards and security protocol and upgrades to scripting languages and all of that. You’re also interested in blowing…
The BlackBerry outage – How Critical Was the Failure?
Was it just a few years ago that BlackBerry got the kind of endorsement that marketers dream at night of? Then-candidate for President Barack Obama revealed that even he had…
In its short life, the internet has gone through a number of geological ages. Terms like “Net 2.0” have been coined to place markers on these transition points. Another one…
A Comparison of the Most Popular Linux Distributions
If you are considering the mighty migration from Windows to try out Linux that you hear is so popular, you might expect there to be a few types to choose…
iPhone 4S – Playing to a Tough Crowd
It’s hard not to look at the iPhone 4S through the lens of Jobs’ recent death. It was released the day before he left us, and is the latest version…
For my next column I was all set to write about the iPhone 4S, which was released to a flurry of reactions that were so-so. It will make an interesting…
5 Hosts Running Macintosh Web Servers
Even a lot of us who are long time users of Windows, Linux or UNIX remember fondly our years with Macintosh. It’s amazing to think that once they were known…
A Look at Common Cloud Hosting Lingo, Part One
If you haven’t heard about cloud computing yet, God bless you: We haven’t a clue how you missed out on the barrage of hip new trends, but we sure are…
Social Networking Wars – A Great Show, and an Educational One
Wars between major corporations are way more fun than we would perhaps like to admit. We can’t help but view it like some football game between demi-gods whenever, say, Coke…
A Lightning Quick Guide To Intel Processors
Back in the golden days of web hosting, it was a simple task to figure out if your server’s processor was heartier than the chap’s down the street. Manufacturers kept…
How Much RAM / Bandwidth / Disk Space Do I Really Need?
If you’ve ever been shopping for a server or a web host, then you know exactly how often this question comes up. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking for the…
Guarantees – Separating Fact from Fiction
As web hosting companies continue to try to get a leg up on one another, many of them include in their offerings different types of “guarantees”. This is the point…