What Is Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a new web browser from the number one company in search engines, Google.
That being said, is it worth your time to check out? The “browser wars” that spawned during the Netscape/Internet Explorer days was an ugly time on the Internet as websites fought to figure out how to make themselves look good [...]
What Is StumbleUpon
What is a “stumble”, and why should you care?
Just like when we explained What Is Digg and What Is Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon is one of those sites people talk about, but never really explain to anyone. At the core of Stumble, as most fans call it, it is a social bookmarking site that allows you to [...]
What Is The Sprint Airave
All of us here at StarterTech our Sprint users, and say what you will about them, we are very happy with our service with them… except in the house.
There is nothing more frustrating than having to leave your cell phone laying in the window in the hopes of getting one bar of signal strength. If [...]
What Is Open Source
We have talked about Open Source a few times, but we have never defined it. What is it, and why should it matter to you?
The Open Source Initative defines it as:
Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source [...]
What Is WordPress
What is WordPress, and why is it slowly coming to power the majority of websites out there?
In short, WordPress is an open source blogging platform that has taken on a life of its own. Whether it be hosting your own blog, or using a free hosted blog, this piece of software has become so popular [...]
What Is A Wiki
When most people hear “wiki”, they immeidately think of “Wikipedia“. Well, there are many more out there than that, and we hope to let you know a bit more about what exactly they are.
Essentially a wiki is a website that is made up of a series of web pages that are editable by multiple people, [...]
What Is A Thumb Drive
They have many names such as thumb drives, jump drives, memory stick, USB drives and more, but they all serve the same puprose, and that is being very useful.
These drives have been around for quite awhile, and while they started off as a niche item, they have grown more and more into the mainstream for [...]
What Is Scour
Every so often someone comes up with a way for you to make money on the Internet for jsut doing your every day activities, and sometimes they even seem like they may work.
Scour is a new search engine that will let you search Google, Yahoo and MSN all at once from one interface. Once the [...]
iPhone Applications
Now that you have either upgraded your iPhone or iPod Touch to firmware 2.0, or bought a device with it pre-installed, what the heck are all these “apps” and what is the “Application Store”?
As the name implies, these new apps are applications that you can add to your
What Is Mozilla Weave
What is Mozilla Weave, and why is it something you need to ponder?
Weave is going to be a new addition to Firefox that allows you to synchronize your setting, bookmarks and passwords across multiple computers. This will even allow you to someday log in from an unknown computer and access all of your information, deleting [...]
