Category: Featured

Visualize Your Digital Relationships with Facebook’s Friendship Pages

Despite frequent privacy concerns, the tremendous amount of data stored in Facebook actually has a lot of positive uses. One of those is utilized in Facebook’s newest feature, Friendship Pages. If you’ve been on Facebook for awhile, you’ve unknowingly built intricate digital relationships with your friends on the social network. Friendship Pages lets you visualize…

November 9, 2010
Crack the Lid on Gmail’s Canned Responses to Dish Out Quick Replies

If you find yourself writing impersonal, repetitive emails often, Gmail’s Canned Responses feature is a great way to streamline this tedious process. Canned Responses allows you to save pre-written messages, so next time you need to remind Ted that the wireless network’s ID is “Potato1” you can take care of it with just a couple…

November 8, 2010
Ask Techerator: I Think I’m Being Spied on with Dynamic DNS, What Should I Do?

Techerator team: My (techie) husband mentioned that he can track the location of our laptop with a “dynamic DNS”. He also said something about being able to remotely connect to it with this tool. Should I be worried? Is this spyware? The service he is referring to is indeed called dynamic DNS. This service can…

November 5, 2010
Subscribe to Techerator with the Techerator Extension for Google Chrome

Here at Techerator, we know that our site wouldn’t be the success it is without all of our readers (Thank you!). Since our launch in May 2009, we’ve made many improvements to the site for our readers. Our most recent change was an entire redesign of Techerator. A big focus on the redesign was making…

October 29, 2010
Ubuntu Updated to 10.10; Can Now Solve the Ultimate Question to Life, The Universe, and Everything

As an exclusive Windows user (with two computers running Windows 7, one running XP, and a Vista boot disk just in case), I find myself in a comfort zone. Windows has been the bread of my computing life; starting all the way back to good ol’ Windows 95. But just because I feel safe in…

October 20, 2010
Skype Rolls Out Version 5.0 With Facebook Integration and 10-Way Video Calling

Skype just got a lot more social! Since mid-Summer, Skype 5.0 Beta has been available, but this past week they rolled out the full version, jam-packed with new features, updates, and a slick new user interface that wasn’t available in the recent beta. Probably some of the biggest and most talked about features within the…

October 18, 2010
Don’t be Interesting, Be More Interesting than Every Person I’ve Ever Met

“I don’t have to be more interesting than you. I don’t have to be more interesting than your friends. I have to be more interesting than your phone; more interesting than ALL the friends you’ve ever had.” Nick Douglas nailed one of the biggest problems we have with modern social interactions in a recent YouTube rant (note: brief NSFW…

October 15, 2010
Forget to Log Out? New Facebook Security Features Will Save Your Reputation

Prepare to be impressed: Facebook is rolling out some great new features that will help protect your account from unauthorized access. They might not have the whole information privacy thing figured out yet, but they are definitely taking the right steps when it comes to keeping your account safe. Generate Temporary Random Passwords via SMS…

October 13, 2010
Mykea Turns Your Boring IKEA Furniture Into Works of Art

I’m a big fan of IKEA furniture. Sure, it might not be the most durable (and certainly doesn’t hold a candle to your grandparents’ solid oak chifforobe), but it’s typically affordable and they offer sleek, modern styles. If you have the luxury to visit an IKEA showroom, you can easily spend hours wandering through the…

October 11, 2010
Create Budgets, Visualize Expenses, and Reduce Debt for Free with Mint.com

When I got my first glimpse of a “big kid job” by taking an engineering internship in 2008, I quickly realized that my strategy of “save enough money for food” wasn’t going to cut it anymore. Since I was earning significantly more than I was at my previous part-time jobs, I needed a way to…

September 30, 2010