Software provides remarkable potential for new abilities and for flexibility around nearly everything in our lives these days. In no sphere is that more true than in a collaborative team environment. Whether a team's mission is to deliver value to customers through providing the highest quality … Read More
What is Linux, and Why Would I Want to Use It?
What's an Operating System? You're probably familiar with Microsoft Windows or Apple's Mac OS X. Windows and OS X are a special type of software called an Operating System (OS for short). The purpose of an OS is to function as a sort of foundation for other software to run within. If the OS were … Read More
What does Facebook know about you?
Facebook, like Google, is a website with many interesting and relevant features that a large portion of the world's population find useful. This is evidenced by Facebook.com being the third-most visited website on the Internet according to Alexa (behind Google.com and YouTube.com). This level of … Read More
What does Google know about you?
Our daily lives are increasingly lived online. Whether we read the latest news, shop for new items, or simply stream videos or music, many of the activities we enjoy on a frequent basis are either exclusively online or have large online components. Almost all of those things are … Read More
Common Browser-based Network Attacks and How to Avoid Them
Day by day, we do more and more through our web browsers. We perform daily work tasks like checking and sending email, visiting websites to learn about news in our chosen fields, and work in web-based operational systems all through our browsers, and outside of the office, we use those same … Read More
The Purpose and Scope of Popular Open Source Software Licenses
What is a Software License? Software is an interesting thing. Whereas we can touch, move, give, and generally interact physically with most useful things, software is different. It's intangible. However, the benefits it brings are clear and make a huge impact on our daily lives. Commonly, there … Read More