Understanding Hosts File and How to Use it
What Is The Hosts File? A hosts file stores information about a specific computer system on the network. It essentially maps the host’s name! Each and every time when …
Best Android alternatives to iPad
The tablets’ market has been following the uptrend from past some time and is expected to replace the computers from home. Though prediction may go wrong, but the current …
A Beginners Guide to Filtering Spam
New Internet users who open email accounts can find that their joy at discovering online networking is impinged by spam. Spam, otherwise known as unsolicited electronic junk mail, is …
Computer Game Focused Learning: Benefits and Risks
The older generations of parents viewed computer games as nothing more than a distraction from learning and a waste of time for their children. However, as numerous studies have …
How to Store Critical Data (or Where to Keep the Good Stuff?)
It’s a favorite line from every western ever made, indicating there is “stuff” and then there is the “good stuff.” Only the cool cowboys or the domineering alpha males …
How to Avoid Falling for A Phishing Scam
Ecommerce is big business. Hundreds of billions of electronic transactions occur globally each year and this figure is set to continue to rise. Unfortunately as this business has grown …
What is Cloud Computing: Cloud Computing 101
What is cloud computing? It is a resource of hardware and software services that are delivered over the Internet. The name comes from the diagram used to describe the …
My Love and Hate Relationship with Windows 8
Windows 8 is Microsoft’s biggest makeover since Windows 95. Well sort of. It still has much of its predecessor, icon-and-mouse user interface, but it also has the innovative graphic …