Broadband is the faster form of an internet connection. There are several forms of broadband connections but here are the most popular two:
ADSL (DSL) – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
This is the most common form of broadband. It is delivered from your phone network, through a modem or router but it won’t disturb your calls. Chances are you’ll probably choose this, as it is the most common form of broadband (used by 61% of the USA) and it is available in over 80% of the UK. ADSL or (DSL in USA) …

Cuil – The New Google?

Is Cuil, the new kid on the search engine block, really as good as the developers say? We checked, and the results are NOT so promising…

First of all, the design of Cuil’s search results page is very inconvenient. You just can’t find what you’re looking for!
And the results themselves seem to be completely irrelevant and definitely not what what the user searched for. Read on and see what Cuil gives us when we search for “Windows”…

There is a severe security risk in Firefox, that most people aren’t even aware of. All the passwords stored or “remembered” in the browser are accessible to anyone who happens to get on their computer (both physically or with hacking tools). Just try this in Firefox:

Go to Tools -> Options and select the Security tab.
Press the Show Passwords button in the middle-right of the window.
You should now see a list of sites and your usernames stored. Press Show Passwords again.

See what I mean? Anyone who has access to your …

Going to sell your hard drive? Deleting personal files from a memory stick? Don’t believe it when Windows says that with one click, the file is deleted. In the real world, it takes a lot more to actually delete a file.
This sounds a little strange, but when deleting a file, it isn’t actually deleted. This means that when you delete a file, your system hides it and tells itself that the file can be overwritten. The data still stays on the hard drive. But now the computer knows that new …