There was a lot of interest in websites that show searches from both Google and Yahoo! These sites displayed your query results side by side. The approach is interesting, but if people are looking for combined results, a better approach might be a meta-search engine. (Update: metasearch engines are not as popular as they once were when this article was written.)

USB or universal serial bus has been around since the mid-nineties. Although the technology is ubiquitous, people are still confused by some USB types and limitations. I’ll admit it can be confusing, but I’m glad I no longer have to wrestle with parallel and serial ports. I’ll explain the differences and tell you how to find out which version you’re using.

Have you every browsed the web and seen a reference to OPML? If you were to look up the abbreviation, you would see it stands for “outline processor markup language”. It’s used for describing outline-based content like articles and play lists. I think a better representation is “other people’s meaningful lists”.

An interesting email question came in about MIMO. The reader wanted to know what it was and if these broadband routers could help solve his wireless situation. Defining MIMO is the easier part. The harder part is finding out if all MIMO routers should be considered. MIMO technology is used in broadband routers and cell […]

ActiveX sounds like a complex term, but it’s not. It is a way to make programs interactive using a set of controls and rules. You might think of as small apps for Internet Explorer. Microsoft has dropped support for it in Microsoft Edge, which is their latest browser.