There are Internet Service Providers (ISP) who have been known to throttle your bandwidth if you are a high volume user. This can be because they think you may be breaking their Terms of Service (TOS) agreement by downloading a lot of music or video. There are sites out there that will check the speed, but this is a one time test. If you want to really keep an eye on your upload and download speed, you ...

If you have not seen Take This Lollipop, chances are you have heard of it. This creepy video, detailing a serial killer scoping out your Facebook profile, has gone viral and everyone is talking about whether or not its claims are true. Can a serial killer really use Facebook's available developer tools to stalk you and find you in real life? Could what happens ...

Time is money. That sentiment is as true today as it was in the days of hauling on horseback from town to town. Keeping that in mind, Google has rolled out a new 'real-time' segment to its popular Google Analytics product, used by web owners to monitor, assess sources and activity on their websites. To cover it in one fell swoop, the new real-time feature allows the webmaster to oversee all activity on the site as it's happening, eradicating the sometimes three-hour wait before anything going on with your site is logged. But ...

I don't pretend to be an expert web developer. Sure I've dabbled in the past, but like the millions of others out there, I probably couldn't build my own e-commerce site from the ground up. Should that mean I couldn't run my own e-commerce site? For many years now services such as WordPress have allowed almost complete amateurs to run their own personal blogs and basic sites, yet as soon as selling becomes an issue, the added complexity takes it beyond the realms of possibility for most people. Well now there's WooCommerce ...

What is OpenDNS and How does it work? In order to understand the functionality of Open DNS, you need to understand a little bit about how the Domain Name System (DNS) works. Internet users open browsers, type in the website address and visit web sites every day without realizing just how this is possible. The DNS allows them to seamlessly make it from web page to web page without a second thought. This system takes a domain name and translates it so that networks hosting web sites understand that is where a user wants to go. This makes it much easier ...