Growing up, I remember constantly being bombarded by Drink Milk ads and fridge door nutritional guides that placed dairy products among the essential food groups needed for optimum health. Years later, I would realize that most of what I had heard about drinking cow’s milk was plain wrong and usually just the propaganda of the dairy industry. Taking into consideration that 70% of the world...

This past week was all about Google’s public beta of Chrome. Being primarily a Mac user, I was a little disappointed that no version of the browser was available for OS X, but fortunately I keep a copy of XP running under Parallels for just such occasions. My first impression of Chrome was that it looked similar to what I would expect from a Google product: clean, simple and intuitive. I l...

For most people, I assume, when they’re downloading videos or whatever with their bittorrent client, they simply queue up their torrents and let the program do its thing. This is how bittorent worked early on, before the advent of uTorrent, Bitcomet, Vuze and the many other clients that allow serious tweaking in the options menu. Impatient as always, I have found myself tinkering with these...