November 10, 2010
The story of Xmarks is like a David and Goliath kind of a tale—only, instead of slinging rocks, users of the (seemingly) popular service all pledged to donate untold amounts of money to keep the cross-browser bookmark synchronization tool alive.
Well…
Tags: add-on, Bookmark, browser, Columns, copy, cross, duplicate, extension, identical, Internet, Murphy's Law, plugin, Sync, synchronize, web, Web Exclusive, xmarks
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October 31, 2010
To write about the death of Digg would be to step into a time machine, back to the late August launch of the fabled “Digg version 4” which singlehandedly managed to unwind nearly six years of continued growth and excitement in one, crappy swoop.
He…
Tags: account, aggregate, Columns, destroy, digg, media, moderate, Murphy's Law, News Worthy, social, sockpuppet, source, spam, user, Web Exclusive
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October 18, 2010
Uggghh. I should have known better, but there I was, staring at a bright-red screen in my Google Chrome tab that was trying to impress upon me—as much as a software browser could sans digital kick to the butt—that the popular tech news site I was a…
Tags: app, Browsing, clean, Columns, fix, Google, infected, malware, Murphy's Law, Site, spyware, toolkit, virus, warning, Web Exclusive
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October 11, 2010
It’s not very often that one sees one’s life posted on one of the larger news/technology aggregates/communities/linkdumps on the web. But there I sat the other day, idly browsing the web the other day, when up came a chat window from Future US co-s…
Tags: Columns, community, david, digital, information, license, murphy, Murphy's Law, network, plate, Privacy, reddit, social, web 2.0, Web Exclusive, world
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October 5, 2010
It’s hard to maintain any kind of neutrality when writing about Valve’s Steam service. Indeed, it’s hard to write anything about Steam without adopting a grin the size of a cartoon character and lavishing compliments on the service faster than ne…
Tags: Columns, driver, freeware, hardware, install, legacy, Murphy's Law, one-button, open-source, product, Steam, updates, Valve, videocard, Web Exclusive
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September 22, 2010
Is there a special, unwritten set of rules for downloading freeware? I’d like to think there are—for me, at least. For even though I’m “that guy” at Maximum PC, perhaps the only (former) editor to actually come close to pushing past one’s…
Tags: apps, Columns, download, freeware, games, habits, Murphy's Law, open-source, programs, recommendation, Software, web, Web Exclusive
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August 16, 2010
A recent survey hit my radar this weekend and, I must say, I’m not that surprised by the results. Contrary to my usual columns, I won’t bury the lede: Accenture polled 300 large organizations in both the public and private sectors and—surprise!
Tags: business, coding, Columns, community, contribute, design, Development, enterprise, freeware, Murphy's Law, open-source, participate
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