Guilty Pleasures on the Web

Computers     From Paul Gil, your About Computers Editor     Each of us has at least one addictive website as a guilty pleasure. For example, I really enjoy Upworthy and Listverse, and I can easily spend 45 minutes a day on those two websites. How about you: which guilty pleasure website keeps you coming back for more?   More Recommended Reading at About.com: Microsoft’s Best Halloween Templates How to Turn Drawings into Videos The Risks of Cloud Computing Follow us on:     10 Websites You’re Embarrassed to Visit (But Do Anyway) Maybe it’s embarrassing for you, maybe it’s downright taboo, but there is definitely website content that will draw you in despite the surrounding stigma.  Celebrity gossip, preposterous stunting, groan-inducing silliness, and even schadenfreude humor:  here are some examples of websites that seem to pull readers in against their will… READ NOW   The Best All-in-One PC’s ‘All-in-one’ means that the computer chassis and the monitor are combined into a single paneled device.  The benefit is that the computer needs far less footprint space, which is particularly valuable to students and people with smaller living spaces.  But do these all-in-one computers compromise computing power for the sake of space?  Actually, no:  some all-in-one machines are very high-performance devices. About.com recommends 4 machines in particular… READ NOW   Can an IP Address Really Be Traced? Yes, law enforcement has the ability to trace every internet-enabled computing device with varying degrees of precision.  In the case of desktop computers, police can usually trace the machine to within a few meters of its geographic location.  About.com explains more about IP addresses here… READ NOW   ‘Memory Clean’: This Mac Software Is Excellent! Not only does this application free up your Mac’s memory, it also analyzes and reports on how your RAM is being used.  It provides alerts and threshold settings, and it displays the various memory types being used in your Mac.  Best of all: Memory Clean is free! READ NOW   ADVERTISEMENT Featured Articles The iPad Air 2 Is Excellent ‘Shellshock Bash Bug’’ Will Let Hackers Into Your Mac Introducing: Android ‘Lollipop’ Operating System! ‘WhiteHat Aviator: The Chrome Web Browser Built to Resist Hackers How Pinterest Can Promote Your Blog In-Vehicle Computer Networks: Yes, These Do Exist! More from About.com Sign up for Shareables! An every-morning rundown of the day in history, with headlines and trends produced by your pals at About.com. Click here to sign up! It's free (of course) and we think you'll like it! Want More From About.com? Check out our social channels tailored to every interest! Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Computers newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 Privacy Policy © 2014 About.com