Every house on your block has an address. An address uniquely identifies a house situated anywhere in the world - there is no confusion. The unique combination of house number, street name, city, and country can unambiguously identify any house on the planet. A similar analogy that comes to mind are phone numbers - every telephone line in the country has a unique telephone number. So when I call Bob across the street, I can be sure that I’m really calling Bob’s house; his phone number is unique. You get the point already! So, what is an IP Address? (more…)

Microsoft Windows organizes computer files by placing them into folders. Well what are folders your may ask? Folders are simply containers - thats it. Folders can contain 2 things, files, and other folders. Thats right, a folder can contain another folder - this hierarchical nature is the basis for most computer filing systems. Think of folders in Windows similarly to folders in your office filing cabinet - folders organize the documents in which they contain. The folder itself is not valuable. Hence if a folder is empty (contains no files), then it can be safely deleted and nothing of value is lost. However folders are not usually empty, since their main purpose is to organize and group different kinds of computer data. For example, we can create a folder called “Pictures” which will store all of our picture files. Similarly, we can create a folder called “Music” to contain all of our music files. More specifically, our Music folder can contain several other folders specifying genre - For example, the sub-folders could be called “Rock”, “Dance”, and “Rap”. This way, we could further organize the music into categories. Yet all the while, the Music folder would still contain everything. Got it? (more…)

The Mozilla Firefox web browser is a free alternative to Microsoft’s popular Internet Explorer. This piece of software has been growing in popularity for several years and has evolved into A+ material. The Mozilla developer community has worked tireless hours to put together a world class web browser providing the best in functionality, speed, and security. (more…)