LinkedIn may be the leading site for professional social networking, but employers prefer Facebook for digging up dirt on prospective hires. Here’s how to avoid embarrassment when it comes time to look for a new job in three simple steps.

If you’re heading anywhere on vacation, make sure if you want to use Wi-Fi in public that you know exactly who it is that set it up.

The Federal Communications Commission is issuing daily advice in the lead up to Friday’s switchover to all-digital TV broadcasting in the U.S. Some of it will be obvious to BLORGE’s tech-savvy readers, but it’s well worth glancing through.

If you believe your Internet connection is down, here are some ways to test the health of your connection to the World Wide Web. Read on for some free or cheap options to fix the problem.

While the practice of making mix tapes has given way to digital playlists, making a good mix is still an impressive feat. Now you can bundle your own mix of feeds from your favorite sites in Google Reader and share them with friends.

Exhausted from spending time with Mom this weekend and need a little entertainment? Check out YooouuuTuuube.com, a new YouTube video remixer that allows you to watch every frame of a video on YouTube simultaneously.

For some time my PC was ludicrously slow, and Outlook 2003 seemed to have something to do with it. Outlook would take forever to download email, and it would often crash, prompting even more delays when it decided to “Check my Personal file” because it was not closed properly. Arrghhhhh!

Everybody finds everything every day with Google. Are you up to speed? Here are some intermediate level tips and tricks to make your Google searches more productive.

No matter how large a hard disk (or hard disks) you buy for your computer, it is somehow never enough. Here is a tip to help you recover disk space.

Have you ever wanted to find an old friend, or someone else, on the Web, but had a hard time doing it? Here are some tips and tricks to help you find people online.

Scams are a large and growing problem on Facebook and other social networking sites. Here are 6 scams you could encounter on Facebook and how to protect yourself against them.

If you wish to automatically follow everyone that follows you on Twitter, there are a number of third-party services that make that possible, though Twitter no longer allows the practice directly, for good reasons.

There are a number of tools available to help a user convert WMA music files to the MP3 format. However, the overriding question may be one of legality.

Google has added an Unsend feature to its Gmail service. But it’s only designed to catch momentary blunders and leaves no room for carefully-considered regrets.

It’s bound to happen sooner or later: you delete an important file and now can’t find it anywhere on your system, including the recycle bin.  Luckily, scouring your hard drive isn’t as difficult as you may think, and 9 times out of 10, the file still exists somewhere on your hard drive.

Firewall alerts come in all shapes and sizes, and vary greatly depending on the type of firewall you’re using at the moment.  Let’s take a look at what they mean, how to decide whether they’re legitimate, and how to respond to them.

It’s an age old problem affecting all PC users- your computer has slowed down to almost a standstill.  Before you throw it out the window, there are several simple tips and tricks you can try first that will hopefully help speed up your system and bring it back to life.