If you're considering broadband, the chances are that you have two options: ADSL or cable (there's also satellite, but it's only really worthwhile when the other two are unavailable). Given that, then, you're probably interested in just what the difference is, and which one is better. Read on. The

Adverts. The scourge of the Internet. It turns out that it's actually quite expensive to keep a website running, especially if that website is popular and contains images or worse, music, video or other multimedia. In response, ads have been becoming more and more intrusive in an effort to get advertisers

Pop-up blocking has come a long way in the last few years, as it has become more and more important to the average computer user. Today, many web browsers feature built-in pop-up blockers - Mozilla Firefox does, for example, as does Opera. Most people don't use these ‘alternative' browsers, however

While pop-up blockers can be very useful pieces of software, they can also cause no end of problems. Sometimes you actually want a pop-up, and the pop-up blocker will block it. What should you do in this situation? Well, if you have a decent pop-up blocker, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. The

As simple pop-up blockers get more and more common, other forms of advertising are getting more common. From classic banners to obnoxious sliders and Google textads, advertising is once again proliferating on the web. If you want to stay away from it, you need an all-round ad-blocking solution. One