Largest Solar Storm In Years About to Hit Earth

The most powerful solar storm in half a decade is about to hit our planet Earth, putting electrical systems, satellite navigation and other technology at a slight risk of failure.
Largest Solar Storm In Years About to Hit Earth

What Happens To My Gmail Account When I Die?

You use a handful of web services every day, but perhaps none holds more of your personal information than your Gmail account. So what happens to your Gmail account should you end up in that big archive folder in the sky? The folks from cloud backup service Backupify set out to find out. Here’s what they learned.
What Happens To My Gmail Account When I Die?

20+ Programs That You Should Run Regularly On Your PC

Many PC users do not think about maintenance as long as their system is running as intended. The issue here is that they might be able to resolve future issues, or mitigate them at least, if they would run a set of tools regularly on their PC. The following guide looks at some of the recommended programs – my recommendations – that should be run regularly on a PC. Not all are maintenance related though, you also find security and privacy programs in the list for instance.
20+ Programs That You Should Run Regularly On Your PC

Get Real-Time Search Results from Google with a URL Tweak

Google offers a few preset search filters for time—past hour, day, week, etc.—but if you want much fresher information, you can tweak the URL. This will limit results so see what's happening in more of a near real-time flow of information.
Get Real-Time Search Results from Google with a URL Tweak

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 5/2012

The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 5/2012

Man Sues Google Over Street View Photo of Him Peeing

A man in France has sued Google because a Street View photo shows him in his front yard taking a leak. The middle-aged man lives in a small village and says the photo has made him a laughingstock in the community.
Man Sues Google Over Street View Photo of Him Peeing

Windows 8 Consumer Preview arrives

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview was expected in February, and it just scraped in. Good job 2012 is a leap year...
Windows 8 Consumer Preview arrives

The Hidden Meaning Behind Phrases In Job Ads

Help wanted ads and job postings tend to use the same jargon: everyone seems to be looking for “detail-oriented” “team players” who can work in a “fast-paced work environment.” Fortune Magazine suggests these buzzwords can clue you in to secrets about the potential employer.
The Hidden Meaning Behind Phrases In Job Ads

Track Who’s Tracking You With Mozilla Collusion

Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs took the TED stage Tuesday morning to introduce Collusion, a Firefox browser add-on that lets you track who’s tracking you across the web for behavioral targeting purposes.
Track Who’s Tracking You With Mozilla Collusion

Haunting photos from Fukushima, one year later: "Invisible You," by Satoru Niwa

Japanese photographer Satoru Niwa, whose work I blogged in a previous Boing Boing post, has a new series from Fukushima marking the one-year anniversary of the March 11 disaster: Invisible You. Again, beautiful, evocative work. Above: a shot from the town of Namie, which is some 40 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Haunting photos from Fukushima, one year later: "Invisible You," by Satoru Niwa

The problem with body mass index

The Body Mass Index is a popular way to measure and assess whether someone is overweight or underweight. Basically, it's just your weight divided by your height. BMI is a simple system, but it does have some flaws. Over at the Obesity Panacea blog, Peter Janiszewski (who has a Ph.D. in exercise physiology) has a nice post explaining why BMI is sometimes useful, and also why it's not a great measurement of individual health.
The problem with body mass index

The Top 3 Essential Computer Security Tips

When you write down all the computer security tips that come to your mind, you probably end up with a long list. If you analyze that list then, you may realize that most of these tips can be broken down into categories. This guide concentrates on what most users can agree on when it comes to security.
The Top 3 Essential Computer Security Tips

Top 10 Ways To Make The Best Of An Old PC

Despite everyone’s assumptions, we geeks are not always privy to the latest and greatest technology. If you’re stuck with an old, slow, crappy computer, there are a few things you can do to make the best of a bad situation. Here are our top 10 favourites.
Top 10 Ways To Make The Best Of An Old PC

Watch How Terrifying It Is To Fly Stunt Airplanes

When man created GoPro cameras, this is what he intended them to be used for. This video shows the amazing Black Diamond Jet Team in training — and if you’re scared of flying, it might be best not to watch it.
Watch How Terrifying It Is To Fly Stunt Airplanes

How To Stop Everyone Tracking You On The Web

It’s no secret that there’s big money to be made in violating your privacy. Companies will pay big bucks to learn more about you, and service providers on the web are eager to get their hands on as much information about you as possible. So what do you do? How do you keep your information out of everyone else’s hands? Here’s a guide to surfing the web while keeping your privacy intact.
How To Stop Everyone Tracking You On The Web

Telstra Lost The Internet, Not Sure Why

Telstra is Australia’s biggest internet service provider (ISP), so when its connection stops working, lots of people notice. An as yet unidentified problem with its network knocked out most customers for at least half an hour today and impacted other providers. Story developing: we’ve got further comment from Telstra and iiNet — and confirmation of Dodo’s involvement.
Telstra Lost The Internet, Not Sure Why

Think You Need Eight Hours Sleep? You’re Wrong

The notion that eight hours sleep is essential to health is widely repeated, but — as we’ve noted before — fails to take into account that individual requirements vary. Something else you probably didn’t know: the idea that we need a long continuous period of sleep is a relatively modern innovation.
Think You Need Eight Hours Sleep? You’re Wrong

FilExile Lets You Delete Files That Refuse To Be Removed

If you are a Windows user you probably came upon quite a few files in the past that you wanted to delete but could not. There are lots of reasons why you may not be able to delete a file in the operating system; from in-use files locked by a process that is still running, to too long paths or cryptic characters of languages that you cannot even identify properly.
FilExile Lets You Delete Files That Refuse To Be Removed

How To Prevent YouTube From Keeping A Record Of The Videos You Watch

When you’re signed into Google or YouTube, a record of all the videos you searched for and watch is logged in your account. You can clear those logs, but up until now you couldn’t disable the logging altogether. Here, finally, is how to keep YouTube from recording your video searches and the videos you watch.
How To Prevent YouTube From Keeping A Record Of The Videos You Watch

Five Reasons to Wait For the iPad 3

It’s been almost a year since Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2 and rumors are solidifying around a March date for the iPad 3 or who knows, maybe they’ll call it the iPad 2S. There is also some speculation that an iPad 3 announcement event will occur on or around Steve Jobs’ birthday which is February 24th but March 29th is now considered the likely date for it to go on sale. Whenever Apple decides to unveil it and whatever they decide to call it, the new iPad is expected to have some attractive new features that should help it keep pace with the latest batch of Android tablets. Here’s a rundown of what the new iPad is likely to include.
Five Reasons to Wait For the iPad 3