Archive for June, 2009

Today Support.com, the company that specializes in remote support, has published their list of top 10 strangest things that people do with their computers that lead to pitiful consequences for their personal machines. It looks like common sense is still the only way to avoid doing things like these yourself but anyway I think it’s [...]

Are you happy with your Twitter client? If so, you probably should stick to it and don’t even read this post further because switching to a new application from something you are already comfortable with should take some serious advantages offered by the alternative. I would not say that OwlRead, the new Twitter client I [...]

The position of the Russian government has been clear for some time now: it is no good for Russian citizens to study and work using commercial Western software (developed and supplied mostly by Microsoft). Quite a number of arguments support the open-source trend, including the high prices that send many users to download pirated software [...]

The Kamchatka peninsula in Russia is told to be one of the most fascinating places on Earth and those who have managed to visit the place are invariably impressed by what they see there - with the famous valley of geysers, active volcanoes and generally beautiful nature.
Unfortunately the most important problem with the peninsula is [...]

Come to think of it, microblogging is just a natural fit for all kinds of reality TV shows: after all, microblogging has a lot to do with reality TV as everyone seems to be broadcasting their lives to Twitter (and numerous other solutions available as well) as openly and willingly as those people who participate [...]

This week here in Russia we have witnessed an interesting story that involves two spheres that are rarely interconnected at all -religion and social media. The thing is that one of the priests is now involved in a scandal that was caused by his numerous improper discussions in LiveJournal.
As some of you may be aware, [...]

For quite a while now we’ve been talking about how powerful social media is in that it helps brands and businesses of all types and sizes to promote their goods and services doing virtually nothing but building a community (usually consisting of the beloved and valued existing users or customers) and encouraging the community to [...]

The problem of antivirus protection has been a difficult one for me for quite a while now. I will have to admit that I’m not the right kind of geek and sometimes I can be careless enough to ignore problems until they become too obvious. This describes my attitude to security precisely.
Over the years I [...]

I think that there have been too many talks about how important online privacy protection and parental control are for anyone who wants their children to be safe online and to avoid all and any dangers that are abundant on the World Wide Web. Yet it looks like even despite of all the talks, there [...]