Need help managing contacts in Gmail? This Firefox and Chrome plug-in will make it easier to see social networking activity and peg notes to the people you email.

A dear friend of mine, Michal (pronounced mee-khal!), is about to go to Vietnam for a month-long backpacking excursion. While she wants to bring her BlackBerry to pick up email, she doesn’t want to incur the expensive roaming charges for data usage. Here’s the solution.

Locating mail in Google is great if you’ve got search, but here are a few shortcuts to make it easier.

It’s one of the nastiest forms of malware in cyberspace — and it’s on the rise. Do you know how to protect yourself from “ransomware”? Here we cover what it is and steps to prevent it.

If you spend anytime online, then you’re likely aware every computer has its own unique “IP address,” which is also linked to your general geographical location. This is why you see “google.ca” (Canada) in your browser window even though you typed google.com (U.S.). Here, we discuss a trick for disguising your IP address.

You might have heard about the just-discovered “Kneber botnet” virus, which has gathered login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email programs from infected computers. The info is then sent back to the hackers who sent it out. With this news, it’s a good idea to remember how to protect yourself.