We spend much of our time online, and we are eager to share our personal data with companies that ask for it. You may be signing up to receive an email blast about your horoscope only to have the website ask for your full name, address, phone number, a screen name, email address, and date of birth. To receive your horoscope via email, you should only need to provide your email address and birth month, not the rest of the requested information. Moreover, you shouldn’t have to be afraid that the horoscope website is going to sell your email address…
Author: Justin Vendette
I had a lot of spying equipment when I was a kid. I had these sunglasses that contained a small camera in the bridge between the lenses. It could record video, and it even had a retractable microphone to record voice. For sending secret spy messages, I had a pen that could write in invisible ink and required a secondary pen that would reveal the text. They were just toys, but they made you feel like a special undercover agent that had a mission to spy on people, although everyone knew that the toy sunglasses had a camera in them…
You know how annoying it can be when you are counting and someone keeps yelling out other numbers to mess you up? It’s tough for your brain to focus on even a simple task, such as counting, if you are distracted. If you are in a public environment, there will always be distractions around you. It’s easy for your mind to drift towards something else, taking your attention away from the task at hand. I find that at work that if I do not have my headset on, my mind may drift off or listen in to other conversations, therefore…
Recently, Activision Blizzard unveiled their latest Call of Duty game which introduces new advanced warfare and an updated graphical engine to the agglomerate and repeated game franchise. As the hype roared around Call of Duty, a lot waited penitently for their competitor, Battlefield, to release this year’s new game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooyjaVdt-jA On Friday, May 25th, EA released their world primer official Battlefield V trailer, which came with an unapproved and shocking surprise. Attracting nearly eight million viewers on YouTube within three days, fans have heavily disliked the new Battlefield V trailer for their new woman appearance in the World War II…
There is a YouTuber that goes by the name of snowcat. Just shy of 800 thousand subscribers, the content creator drives around Canada while constantly recording his driving adventures. His videos include commentary as well as vloging aspects. His channel is primarily focused on bad drivers that are all round his city and how they make stupid mistakes and risky life-threating decisions while driving. All he does is record this, and it happens right in front of him; he does not seek out bad drivers. I’ve watched a lot of his videos and, it’s wild at the type of drivers…
As some of you may not realize, writing content is not my livelihood. All of this is a weekend hobby where I create content for you to like, share, and experience the content at hand. In the case of Qwerty Articles, that content is for technical articles, tutorials, and reviews. Since this is not a source of any income, I need to make money another way. I do so through my full-time IT position. By working in the very field that I type content for, I get to experience and then share real IT problems that demand real answers. What…
Headphone reviews are my favorite because I get another excuse to listen to my favorite rock and roll tunes all day long. Over the years, listening to more and more music has made me become an audiophile. I recently invested in new audio equipment for my computer. I use Pandora Pro for higher bit rate audio, which goes through my soundcard to be transmitted to my digital-to-analogue converter (DAC), then out through the amplifier to my headphones. Believe it or not, it does make a difference to how things sound. To complement my audio configuration, Beyerdynamic has been a great…
If we need to type a document, there’s a very strong chance we’ll be using Microsoft Word. Every article, review, and tutorial that I write for Qwerty Articles is written in Microsoft Word. This word processor is the world’s go-to software for document creation. Microsoft has expanded its popular Office productivity suite into a modern-day subscription known as Office 365 or O365. With control of the market and providing access to everyone through a subscription, it has become a must-have for most writers. We all use Microsoft Word, whether it be for personal use, work use, or school use. You…
When I was selecting a title for this review, it dawned on me that Turtle Beach’s stock trade symbol is cleverly named HEAR. How fitting for a company who dominantly supplies sound equipment. As amusing as I found that to be, there are a lot of amusing things all over the internet. One of the most common ways of sharing funny content online is through a meme: a picture or GIF that displays a funny picture, clip, or wordage. A well-known meme is the one made famous by the boxer, John Cena. There is a published YouTube video posted years…
When Steve Jobs was fired by his own company, Apple suffered terrible leadership. Apple started releasing new products and models every month, with some products being updated weeks after their initial release. Apple was releasing so many new revisions and products, consumers became scared to buy an Apple product. They felt that if they were to buy an Apple product, theirs would become out-of-date in a matter of weeks. Today, we’ve taken the opposite direction; everybody needs to have the latest and greatest device the moment it’s released. Every six months, technology advances one step forward. It always feels as…