Bypass ISP Video Throttling with a VPN

Speedometer

You know what grinds my gears? ISP throttling. That’s what. Ever wonder why it is that your Youtube videos lag and buffer every few seconds in 720p or 1080p mode even though you know with an absolute certainty that your bandwidth is not the problem? OK, so that issue might not happen 24/7 but did [...]

Configuring Remote Access for NAS4Free

NAS4Free Remote Access

Due to the immense popularity of my blog article on how to configure a NAS4Free server on a Windows network, I decided to do a simple follow up on how to configure that same server for access over the Internet. Well actually, a comment made by user Austin prompted me to write this article. He [...]

Creating VM Clones in Microsoft Hyper-V

VM Cloning

If you’re a virtual machine freak like me, then you’ve most likely upgraded to Windows 8 Pro already due to its awesome built in Hyper-V client! No longer do you need to install Windows Server 2012 or the standalone hypervisor operating system just to be able to build your virtual machine infrastructure on your home [...]

Getting to Know DNS! Part 3

WorldDNS

Alright folks! It’s time to finally wrap things up with the final article in my “Getting to Know DNS!” series. In this last article, I will be putting together everything you have read so far in the past two articles and giving you the ultimate look at how name resolution functions on an every day [...]

Getting to Know DNS! Part 2

Global DNS

In my previous article, Getting to Know DNS! Part 1, I’ve gone over the very basics of DNS and why it was needed to help power the Internet of today. It is one of the most used network services around the globe on a daily basis. There are literally thousands upon thousands of DNS queries [...]

Getting to Know DNS! Part 1

DNS

It’s been a while since I’ve created this blog but until now, I haven’t really talked about one of my favorite topic where networking and computers in general are concerned: the domain name system or better known as DNS. I remember being asked recently on just how does the Internet work? Many users know that [...]

Survive a Hard Disk Failure by Using RAID 1

RAID 1 Array

I’ve met a lot of paranoid people during my time working with them and their computers. This is especially true where hard disks are concerned. Yet, the fault can’t all be put on them. However, many users still don’t understand that computers, especially hard drives, can and will malfunction at one point or another and [...]

WebMail Encryption with Mailvelope

Mailvelope

Email encryption is something I’ve always pushed for to whomever is willing to listen! One of the hardest part when it comes to email encryption is the user factor. Many users just don’t see a need to use a desktop email client just to implement some type of email encryption. Many of us are more [...]

OpenPGP in Outlook with gpg4o

gpg40

It seems that getting a free OpenPGP solution to work with the Microsoft Outlook email client is harder than I thought it would be. The only thing I could dig up was the Outlook Privacy Plugin, which I wrote extensively about here in this article. At the time I wrote that article, the plugin version [...]

Switched to Android and Loving It!

Galaxy S3

So I’ve finally decided to upgrade my iPhone 3GS and one of the toughest decisions I had to make obviously was do I stick with Apple or do I go to Android? I have also looked deeply into the Nokia Lumia 920 with the Windows Phone 8 OS but came away disappointed after reading about [...]