Research Tools and Guides

Some Google hacks are simply cooler than others. If you want to make Google Translate "beat box" like a champ, simply paste this nonsensical string of...

What happens when a stream of water hits a big enough obstacle? It moves towards right or left to pass over the blockage. Same thing happens to your...

Since the dawn of graphic interfaces on computers, designers and developers have faced off over the proper ways to present data and tools. The aesthetics...

When people mention "cool movie cars" the first thing that normally comes to mind is James Bond. The British spy known as 007 has had two-dozen movies...

Some people go to SXSW to see the latest and greatest in interactive, music, and film. Others go to see the tastemakers and trendsetters of each industry...

Understand online-banking security, deposit-insurance limits, common bank scams and what U.S. consumers should do after an unauthorized transfer.

Social news aggregator Reddit.com took the lead and announced that they were "going black" on January 18th to protest SOPA and PIPA. Despite backpedaling...

Learn how digital wallets protect card payments, what tokenization cannot prevent, how stored cash differs, and what to do if your phone is lost or stolen.

Compare rewards and securities crowdfunding, calculate campaign fees and delivery costs, and see how valuation, ownership and dilution work in simple examples.

In design, typeface can be everything. People associate a brand with certain typefaces. Personalities of individuals can be expressed with the...

They are the keys we use to get to some of the most important parts of our online lives. Email, bank accounts, social networks, work applications -...

Here is a quick tutorial on how to transfer your photos from Facebook to your Google+ account. It's possible that Facebook could shut this off at any...

Had this "deleted scene" been aired during the season 1 finale of Lost, it would have answered a lot of questions. Actually, no, it wouldn't. It would...

Facebook has been doing everything it can to keep people from exporting their contacts to bring them into Google+ ever since the search giant's new social...

The same technology used in 3D postcards and glasses-free 3D televisions is being used by a Japanese research group at the University of...

It's human nature to be at our most vulnerable when dealing with issues of the heart. Scam-masters and con artists know this and they're taking advantage of…

Fair use. If you buy a device and decide later to switch to a different one, should you be forced to buy the exact same media over again?

In case you had no idea what you were going to do this weekend, here's a suggestion: popcorn. With lasers .

The announcement of the Verizon iPhone launching next month has a lot of people considering changing providers.

I remove people from Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks on a daily basis — not by choice, but because there is too much information — but I never…

I've been using PCs for the better part of two decades, and in all that time, I've used Windows' calculator maybe four times.

Nothing screams hipster like anything from "Juno", most notably her iconic hamburger phone. Now, you too can haz Juno hamburger , if you are ready and…

I'm gonna come right out and admit I've never owned an Xbox 360 - but most of my friends have one, so I've still experienced second-hand the Red Ring of...

Reading the headline there's few surprises here for those bothered to read on. Someone has invented the Paper Tweet. You know those notepads that every...