Tip of the Day - A smarter way to eat microwave popcorn

Don't know why it took me 20+ years to figure out how to eat popcorn this way. The photo above basically speaks for itself. I don&#...

Cloud Storage 2013 - A look at the old and the new

By now, everyone uses cloud storage. Whether you knowingly download a program (Dropbox) to sync certain files you deem important, or unk...

VPN Review - gfwVPN

(Note: For a comprehensive and up-to-date comparison of features and prices for different VPNs, click on this  VPN and Proxy Comparison list...

Yunio - A new contender for cloud storage

Update: Yunio is now offering 1TB (and more) of free storage. It is incredible! (let's hope it lasts long...) Upon my arrival in Chi...

Use the Gimp to create color photos from black and white photos

The Migrant Mother photo colorized Recently I have been seeing a bunch of black and white photos being colorized. I thought it looked p...

The easiest way to transfer money from China to the US

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Update: I don't know if I have discovered an easier way to transfer money, but recently I ...

PortableApps.com vs LiberKey.com

For the past ten years, I have been running software from something other than the computer's hard drive. It all started when I was ...