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The internet has woken up to the fact that Facebook can steal photos from your profile page and use them in ads targeted at your friends.

So, I found an awesome Adobe Photoshop competitor in an unlikely place. The cloud! While there is a lot of theorizing that computing is moving to the cloud and significant advances in server-based services, I have been more than skeptical in the idea of having higher processing needs being met. That is until recently when I found Sumo Paint.

I thought I’d review Wolfram|Alpha today. It is being slated as the google killer right now (a term that is often used, but never lived up to!).

So, your response is, ” what is Wolfram|Alpha” right? It’s just anothe search engine? Why do I need another search engine? These are all valid questions. Wolfram|Alpha is a bit different which is its distinguishing factor.

I often get the question, “What is VoIP”? Pronounced ‘voip’. VoIP stands for ‘voice over IP’, IP standing for Internet Protocol. Still scratching your head? Most do. In laymen, VoIP is simply telephone through your broadband internet connection.

There has been a lot of talk lately about internet television and even a few devices that incorporate online video into regular television sets. When you do a search for internet tv, what does it say though? From my experience, it says all you have to do is PAY x amount and have all the television stations around the world. I say to myself, I know there is free tv out there. This post is to help you find that free tv.

So you are interested in surfing the web? Not quite sure where to start? Let me suggest a site.