Mark Lewin

Mark Lewin has been developing, teaching, and writing about software for over 16 years. His main interest is web development generally and web mapping in particular. He also has a passion for open source and Linux.

8 Tips for Using the Start Menu in Windows 10

5 Additional Tips for Using the Windows 10 Start Menu More Efficiently

New to the tile-based approach of the Windows 10 Start Menu? Get our top 5 tips for using the Start Menu in Windows 10 and making it work for you.

Windows – Jul 2, 2016

How Do You Keep Your Windows Drivers Up to Date? Here's Our Suggestion

How to Effortlessly Keep Your Windows Drivers Up to Date with This Tool

Keeping your Windows drivers up to date doesn’t have to be such a chore. The Snail Driver utility makes it easy. Here’s how to install and use it.

Windows – Jun 28, 2016

Use These Four Simple Steps to Compile Linux Programs from Source

It’s not difficult to compile Linux programs from source. Start with a tarball and follow four simple steps. This guide shows you how it’s done.

Linux – Jun 27, 2016

In August 2006, naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor waded into a remote grove in Redwood National Park and pointed a laser rangefinder at a tree that turned out to be 380 feet tall, and the National Park Service has refused to disclose its location ever since, fearing the foot traffic alone would kill it.

Jun 2, 2026

Female engineer testing sound waves in an anechoic chamber with a monitor.

Inside a six-walled wedge-foam chamber on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, the background sound is so far below human hearing that visitors start to perceive the grinding of their own joints, the rush of blood in their ears, and eventually a faint ringing that turns out to be the firing of their own nerves.

Jun 2, 2026

Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t passive — they’ve simply opted out of the performance while retaining access to the information, which is a sign of quiet self-awareness

Jun 2, 2026

In 1964, IBM risked its entire corporate empire on the System/360, a chaotic gamble to make all of its future machines compatible with the same software — and the architecture proved so robust that modern enterprise mainframes today are still running sections of binary code written more than sixty years ago

Jun 2, 2026

In 1982, a Soviet pipeline suddenly exploded with the force of a tactical nuclear weapon, and the disaster was traced back to a stolen piece of Canadian pipeline software — and years later, it was revealed the CIA had intentionally allowed the KGB to steal the code, after subtly altering the software’s logic to trigger a catastrophic pressure surge months down the line.

Jun 2, 2026

In the early 1980s, a Dutch radio broadcaster figured out how to transmit video games over standard commercial radio broadcasts — and teenagers across Europe would sit with blank cassette tapes waiting for the local station to broadcast a series of high-pitched squeaks and buzzes that they could record and load into their home computers

Jun 2, 2026

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