You can love Google or hate it, but the truth is that both Gmail and Chrome are terrific products, and possibly the best in their respective fields. This post presents TEN extensions for Chrome that make Gmail even better, and add novel and practical functions that →
Twenty five free online courses for learning iPhone and iPad programming
Do you want to learn to make iPhone or Android apps? If so then you’re in luck, as the internet is full of 100% free-to-take programming courses that can get you well on your way. This article will list 25 of these, and will tell you a →
Do copy acceleration utilities actually lower file transfer speeds? Our tests say yes
We’ve featured several file copy acceleration utilities on this site. Recently, however, we went in and did a head-to-head test to discover which of the many free options was the best at increasing copying speed. The results surprised us greatly: all of the tools we tested →
How to convert PDF to Word DOC for free: a comparative test (updated)
Last updated: Aug 6th 2012. This is our third update of this article, which we believe to be the best critical overview of TRULY free PDF to Word tools on the internet. With each update, a slew of tools are added and a number of the old →
Free Minecraft resources: get the most out of Minecraft with custom content
Minecraft has become a wildly successful, rags to riches software sensation nearly overnight. And while Minecraft Retail may not be free, we’ve previously written about how you can play Minecraft classic for free, and in this post we will feature a ton of freely available content that’s →
Create a local, development version of your WordPress site on your hard drive: a guide for the absolute beginner
If you have a Wordpress site, you may have imagined how useful it would be to have a development version of your site running on your hard drive, that you could experiment a nd play with offline without having to modify your actual site.This post will →
Google’s belligerent Panda: why the way Google does algorithm updates hurts small sites and gives larger sites an unfair advantage
Google’s last Panda 3.8 update which happened in late June 2012 took away two thirds of my traffic, reducing my readership to the same level it was more than 18 months ago, and making the site essentially unsustainable, a personal cash drain that cannot be maintained in the →
Learn to meditate with OnlineMeditation.org’s free online meditation courses, videos, and MP3’s
Onlinemeditation is a great site that will help you get into the larger universe of meditation and self-discovery and improvement. It costs absolutely nothing and is a veritable bottomless well of information on meditation, methods and practical advice. Have you ever watched someone meditate? Those who →
Star Trek Online is now free to play!
Star Trek Online (STO) is a great modern mmorpg from the folks at cryptic and it’s been one of the most successful mmo game launches ever. It was therefore a surprise that it went free 2 play so quickly. Cyberspace… the virtual frontier. This is the →
Ten of the best FREE online education resources that you should know about
We recently published an article that listed the free online learning resources offered by the best 40 colleges in America (here). In the process of doing so, we came into contact with all of the major, most important and professional FREE online education sites on the internet. →
10 must have FREE Android apps (part 1)
My recent switch from iOS to Android has given me the chance to discover some fantastic new free apps. Of course there are staple apps like Dropbox, Skype, etc. that everyone knows about already, but this post is NOT about these. Rather, I would like to →
Take FREE online courses from the TOP 40 colleges in the US
Online education is ubiquitous, it seems, and has a lot to recommend it, such as the convenience of learning when and where you want, and the fact that there are so many free courses out there. However, many online schools seem like they suddenly came out →
