What Is Google PageRank
What is Google PageRank (PR), and why does it matter to a website?
The founders of Google, the kings of all things on the Web it seems, came up with a system of judging the importance of a web page in 1995, and incorporated it into their search engine when it launched in 1998. The system [...]
Xbox Live Down For The Day
No, your Xbox is not broken, Microsoft is working on the Xbox Live area.
If you logged into your Xbox Liveaccount today and saw a message about being unavailable, it’s nothing wrong on your end. The system has been taken down for 24 hours to prepare for the launch of a new version in the near [...]
Finland Works Towards Universal 100 Mbps
It would seem Finlandis working towards offering universal 100 Mbps broadband access accross the country according to CED Magazine.
To put this in perspective, unless someone in the USA has a fiber optic Internet connection, they probably are lucky to go at speeds of 8 - 10 Mbps. Fiber optic customers do see speeds in the [...]
Walmart To Shut Down Their DRM Servers On October 9th
An important message to all customers of Walmart’s MP3 store has started going out via email.
Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases
We hope you are enjoying the increased music quality/bitrate and the improved usability of Walmart’s MP3 music downloads. We began offering MP3s in August 2007 and have offered only DRM (digital rights management) -free [...]
More Evidence Mounts That Blu-ray Will Be A Bad Choice
The news continues to worsen for the Blu-ray media format, and the evidence builds that consumers really should avoid it.
In the past week, the high definition format saw a 13.9% slip in market sales while the standard definition DVDs increased by .15%. While this certainly does not mean the format is dying, it does [...]
Google And AARP Teamup To Educate You About Computers
It would seem that those of us here at StarterTech aren’t the only ones to think the general public needs more education in some of the basics of every day computing. Google, the search engine giant, has teamed up with AARP to produce a series of videos to education for the associations members about [...]
College Admissions Now Looking At Social Profiles
It seems that is not just employers that are checking out social profiles when they are judging you.
We mentioned in Future Employers May Be Checking Your Facebook Account that some employers are now checking out social profiles when they consider whom to hire. According to an article from the Chicago Tribune, college admissions officers are [...]
Microsoft Is Moving Into The Clouds
Remember how we’ve been telling about cloud computing, and slowly you will find more and more of your life being lived this way? Well, it seems Microsoft is making this their mantra for Windows 7.
Windows 7, the successor to the pretty universally hated Windows Vista, will be moving some of its previously built-in programs to [...]
What Is An Affiliate Program
Lots of online stores have a link at the bottom of their pages about “affiliate programs”, but what exactly does that mean, and why should you care?
We touched on this briefly in How To Monetize Your Blog, but it seemed worthy of being brought up again.
Essentially you sign up for the program of the site [...]
What Is A Podcast
You hear them mentioned on news shows, by political candidates, and even on standard television shows, but what is a podcast?
The short and simple version is that a podcast is an audio or video recording that can be delivered to your computer or mobile device. The longer explanation is that they are like radio shows [...]
