Heavy metal fans around the world have revered former Black Sabbath frontman and successful solo artist Ozzy Osborne for more than forty years. The following ten websites are among those that the Godfather of Heavy Metal should consider adding to his favorites list.

1. Alcoholics Anonymous – Osbourne’s battle with alcohol addiction has been well-publicized over the years. He has openly stated that he’s baffled by the fact that he managed to survive the years of extreme alcoholism and his resulting behavior.
2. The Alamo – One of the most well-known pieces of Ozzy-related history is the story of his decade-long banishment from the city of San Antonio, Texas. In a drunken stupor and his wife’s clothes, Osbourne urinated on the cenotaph honoring those who died at the Alamo. His antics led to an arrest and the refusal of city officials to allow his return.
3. PETA – In an infamous stunt that horrified record execs and outraged animal rights activists, Ozzy once bit the head off of a dove during a meeting. The original plan was for the birds to be released as a symbol of peace, but an inebriated Osbourne snatched one from the air and orally decapitated it. After spitting the bird’s head onto a table, he’s said to have smiled peacefully with blood dripping from his lips. Later, he also accidentally repeated the incident on-stage with a bat that he mistakenly thought was made of rubber.
4. Motley Crue – The 1984 tour that Osbourne shared with legendary party-animal rock stars Motley Crue has been called the “craziest drug and alcohol-fueled tour in the history of rock and roll.” Rock legend states that Ozzy snorted a line of ants after Crue bassist Nikki Sixx set fire to himself.
5. Tony Iommi – The relationship between Ozzy and founding Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has been a tumultuous one, by all accounts. After legal battles and artistic differences, the original members of the seminal outfit announced a reunion tour and new album in 2011. Fan celebrations were cut short in the earliest days of 2012 with Tony Iommi’s announcement of a lymphoma diagnosis. Plans for the album, with high-profile producer Rick Rubin at the helm, have not changed. Iommi insists that his treatments will not delay the long-awaited album.
6. Ozzfest – The massive touring metal festival that Ozzy and his team put together each year, Ozzfest, is always one of the concert season’s biggest draws. Each year’s lineup is a balance of the long-established heavy-hitters in the metal world and new up-and-coming acts.
7. IMDb – In addition to an impressive list of soundtrack contributions, Ozzy Osbourne has a handful of acting credits to his name. His turn as a televangelist anti-metal crusader in the 1986 cult film Trick or Treat is certainly one of Osbourne’s career highlights.
8. Ozzy – Like any self-respecting rock star, Ozzy’s sure to have a bit of a narcissistic bent. In order to satisfy those urges, his own official website is a must on the bookmarked list.
9. Scientific American – As the first (and only, to date) rock star to have his entire genome sequenced, Ozzy has also made a significant contribution to the scientific world. The data may, as science advances, aid researchers in the area of addiction science as well as isolating a propensity for musical skill on the genetic level.
10. The Sunday London Times –  Osbourne’s weekly contribution to the Sunday London Times in the form of a column entitled Ask Dr. Ozzy makes their website another must-visit on his list. The column draws upon the hard-living legend’s wide array of experiences and wisdom, covering the topics of addiction, music and witty advice.

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Social media have such great potential for marketing, raising awareness, and sharing information that it’s become a natural resource for fundraising as well. There have been a number of innovative approaches employed already for that very purpose. In fact, here’s a list of ten ways to raise money for charity using Twitter:

1. ChipIn – ChipIn is a widget that you can download which will automatically accept donations for your cause and send them to your connected PayPal account. All you need to do is embed it on your web page, and direct followers to it in your tweets to get the ball rolling.
2. Join groups and follow tweeters that would most likely share an interest in your cause, and invite them to contribute donations. In fact, you can multiply the effectiveness of a fundraising campaign by working together as a network.
3. Ask followers and/or volunteers to re-post your fundraising message as their status.
4. Create a hash tag that can be retweeted, and easily searched in order to spread the word about your charity; it will also help you to monitor the effectiveness of your networking efforts.
5. Use resources such as Twtvite to schedule tweetups with your followers and volunteers to work in tandem on raising funds across the network.
6. Use Twitter’s advanced search feature to help you identify and locate members who would fit your target market. Search for organizations and individuals who are tweeting about your cause, or would share interest in it.
7. Find an organization that will sponsor your hash tag, and link it to your blog.
8. Set up your fundraising drive around a specific goal, rather than just a general cause. This will will create more focused effort, and instill more of a challenge in your audience.
9. Set up a schedule of tweets and status updates using resources like HootSuite, or Threadsy.
10. Join Twitpay to set up an easy method for collecting your donations. You can create embeddable tweets with Twitpay which allows your tweets to be retweeted by visitors to your blog without having to leave your website.

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When social networking giant Facebook instituted an identity verification policy, many users were confused and upset by the development. The idea of sharing our cellphone numbers with an internet entity, regardless of its size, flies in the face of everything we’ve been told about identity protection and privacy. If you’ve been troubled by this development and unsure of the ramifications, here are ten of the reasons why Facebook wants to know who you are.

1. One Account Policy – Facebook’s policy regarding multiple accounts is very clear: they only allow one per person. By requiring an identity verification, they can eliminate a large percentage of superfluous profiles in one fell swoop.
2. Ensuring That Accounts Are Individual – Just as Facebook policies state that each person can only have one active account, they’re also vocal about their stance on shared accounts. In the interest of compromised security, Facebook insists that only one person use a profile or timeline.
3. No Pet or Inanimate Object Profiles – While creating a fan page for your pet (or pet rock) is acceptable, an active personal profile for pets, children and inanimate profiles is forbidden. Requiring that each identity attached to a profile be verified greatly reduces the number of incorrectly-built timelines.
4. To Avoid Fake Celebrity Profiles – Though they may seem harmless, false celebrity profiles are prohibited by Facebook policy. Reputation management is a priority for those in the public eye, and those reputations can be damaged by the actions of someone posing as a celebrity. By requiring that accounts be verified, Facebook has made it much more difficult to create and maintain these timelines.
5. Sex Offender Prohibitions – When a convicted sex offender’s profile is reported to Facebook, they require proof of the conviction before the profile is removed. By verifying the identity of Facebook users, they can ensure that a case of mistaken identity won’t lead to the loss of a timeline.
6. Curbing Spam – In the heyday of MySpace, there were more fraudulent spam bot profiles than legitimate ones. Facebook is actively taking measures to prevent a similar problem with spam by requiring an identity’s verification.
7. Personalizing Data Collection – While this sounds nefarious, it’s important to realize that most websites participate in some sort of data collection in order to personalize advertising. When Facebook collects information, they’re connecting it to a specific online persona to tailor the experience.
8. Identity Fraud Protection – Identity fraud isn’t limited to theft for financial gain; your online presence is also valuable and should be guarded. By instituting the verification policy, Facebook is helping to protect your online presence from anyone posing as you and maligning your reputation.
9. To Maintain the “Real Life” Connection – You may have noticed that Facebook asks if you know a person in real life before adding them; this is because they are committed to maintaining the “Real Life” social connection tenets that they were founded on. Verifying an actual identity ensures that profiles belong to real people.
10. Memorializing a Profile – When a loved one passes away, being bombarded by reminders of them can make a tragic situation even more upsetting. Verified members of a deceased user’s family can request that a profile is memorialized, which preserves the account but ends notifications that are randomly generated.

Facebook is a constantly-evolving network, with security measures that change periodically. It’s important to be sure that your security measures are customized and that you monitor these settings each time the Facebook model is updated.

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Because our society has grown so dependent upon the internet for marketing, networking and branding, it’s hard to imagine that the technology has only existed for about fifteen years. In such a short time, it’s become nearly impossible to manage your brand or protect it without some working knowledge of the internet. If you’re looking to keep your brand secure, here are ten tips that might smooth your path.

1. Keep It Distinctive – The best brand names are those that are unique and easy to remember. As you begin to build your brand’s reputation, you’ll have to live with the name you’ve chosen or forced to start from square one. Take your time choosing a brand name, and make sure it sticks in the minds of your customers.
2. Trademark It – While it’s not legally required, the best and most effective way to protect your brand name from trademark disputes is to register the name as soon as possible. There are a myriad of services that will run trademark and common-law searches to be sure that the name you’ve chosen isn’t already in use; it’s a good idea to utilize these services before attempting to register.
3. Sign Up For Google Alerts – Using Google Alert will help you to track the reputation of your brand with little fuss. The first step to keeping your brand’s reputation up is to know what people are saying. With this service or others of its ilk, the process is painless.
4. Design a Memorable Logo – A well-designed logo is an absolute must for establishing your brand; building an online presence as soon as possible will protect your brand from any confusion if a business with a similar name begins to do the same. Your logo will be the one that people recognize first, if it’s eye-catching.
5. Go to War With Negative Reviews – Despite your best efforts, bad reviews will inevitably crop up. Disgruntled former employees or even competitors may seek to malign you by leaving undeserved poor reviews; make it a priority to learn how to “wash out” negative mentions.
6. Create YouTube Videos – One of the first returns on almost any Google search is a related YouTube clip. Use this to your advantage by creating your own form of viral marketing videos; do something edgy and people will talk about your brand.
7. Make Social Networking Work For You – Sites like Facebook and LinkedIn are crucial for raising brand awareness and protecting a brand name. Create profiles and build the strongest possible brand presence on the sites; in addition to being a top Google search return, these also allow customers to interact with you and to share information about your brand with one another.
8. Blog Religiously – Start a blog, and update it with relevant content as often as possible. Informative blog entries will attract attention, boosting your online presence and creating a buzz about your brand.
9. Twitter Away – Tweet, tweet and tweet some more. Retweet posts relevant to your brand, follow those who are following leaders in your industry, and create goodwill by helping to promote your peers.
10. Make Sharing Simple – Add buttons to your website and blog that make sharing on Facebook, Digg and Twitter as simple as the click of a mouse. When content catches a user’s eye, they can easily share it with all of their friends and followers. These shares will boost your presence exponentially.

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Considering how profoundly it’s changed our lives, it’s small wonder that high tech has infiltrated the furthest reaches of society, and beyond. Consider the vampire. Once resigned to roaming the shadows in search of victims, save for the occasional flight of fancy in the form of a bat, these denizens of the dark no longer have to rely purely on pot luck for their dinners. There are at least 10 technologies that vampires can use to lure their prey:

1. Text messaging – Silently, with mere swipes of his touch pad, the vampire’s intended is made aware of his intentions: I vant to meet you for dinner, my dah-ling. 
2. Email – Gather a mailing list from the Red Cross, and send out a forward to an entire contact list. Sit back and wait for the dinner bell to ring.
3. Facebook – What could be better than a whole network of tender necks at one’s beck and call, providing updates of their every move?
4. Instant Messaging – For one-on-one engagements with his prey, the 21^st century vampire can keep in touch on his desktop and visper sveet nothings all night long.
5. Forums – Goth and vampire sites would be a good start, of course. The modern-day vampire will now be part spirit, part animal, and part troll.
6. YouTube – It’s hard to beat a well-produced video presentation for promoting yourself. Add a smooth techno or death metal track to add some bite, and you’re good to go. Bwahaha.
7. Twitter –  Imagine that. Technology that now makes it possible for a bat to tweet. Make those 140 characters count, #Count. Those retweets will be like echoes in the night.
8. Chat Rooms – Pick a group, or start your own, and strike up a little conversation with someone on your bloody buddy list.
9. Search Engine Listing – Let them know how they can find a dashing, dapper, debonair, dentally-challenged dude. Yes, that’s right. We’re talking about Googling ghouls.
10. Reality TV – Vampirettes, anyone? Or Who Wants to Marry a Bloodthirsty Beast That Sleeps All Day and Goes Out All Night? Have we got a contestant for you.

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America loves its lawsuits. Alright, maybe because we are such a litigious society it just seems as though we are enamored of litigation. Either way, the online world has not been spared from this national phenomenon. There are lawsuits filed over the internet, there are lawsuits filed about the internet and there are lawsuits filed over content on the internet. Listed below are a number of ways that the cyber-world has become enmeshed with the legal world.

1. Feeling Lucky? – You might not feel too lucky if you are one of the people behind Full Tilt Poker or Poker Stars, two online gaming enterprises that have come under a barrage of lawsuits, ranging from alleged Ponzi schemes to misappropriation of client funds.
2. Trademark Infringement – “Keyword Advertising” is popular on the internet. This is where words you type into the search box trigger an advertised site (usually the ads running down the right side of the results page). There is legal question as to whether the use of trademarked names in keyword ads is legal.
3. Defamation – Defamation includes libel, which is a written defamation, and slander, which is spoken defamation. And, yes, truth is an absolute defense against a claim of defamation, but remember that the truth can be a time-consuming and costly thing to prove.
4. Facebook – Employee rants are nothing new on Facebook, nor are disciplinary actions by the companies they work/worked for. The NLRB, or National Labor Relations Board, has been entrusted, since 1935, with enforcing the Wagner Act, a labor law that set down certain rules regarding collective and individual employee behavior.
5. SLAPP – Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. A legal maneuver that has been in use for decades whereby businesses sue or threaten to sue (often for defamation) customers who have posted negative commentary about their business online.
6. Software Piracy – The SIIA ( Software & Information Industry Association), a trade association for the software and digital content industries, regularly files lawsuits against online purveyors of infringing, illegal, counterfeit or unauthorized software.
7. “Litigating for Liberty” – That is the motto of the southern California-based group called the Institute for Justice, and the Institute specializes in 1^st Amendment cases. A look at their site at http://www.ij.org/firstamendment will show lists of cases, many pertaining to online content.
8. Cobb County, Georgia – In Cobb County, Georgia, people are able to file small claims lawsuits online. The cases are still decided before a judge, but suing someone was certainly made easier. Proponents say it saves time and money, but detractors say it invites frivolous lawsuits.
9. Ragged Edge – At http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/departments/lawsuits/ , a disability rights organization, you can get an inside look at cases that involve people with disabilities.
10. Tips to Avoid Lawsuits – If you plan to post a negative review of a company or service online remember three things: just the facts, act to benefit other consumers and don’t hit “send” until you have calmed down.

The laws, particularly those having connections to social networking, will continue to evolve rapidly, even as the pace of technological advance increases.

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It’s hard to relax and enjoy your surroundings when your smart phone is constantly drawing you back to the virtual digital world. Some people are so addicted to their technology that they need to find a place where they are forced to detox. With an increasing number of vacation destinations advertising their high-tech capabilities, it’s getting more and more difficult to find a place where you can get unplugged. If you need to find a place to get away from your computer, phone and television, here are 10 vacations where you have to go low tech.

1. Dry Camping in an RV – Amazingly enough, you don’t need to go to the ends of the earth to find a place with “no signal”. Traveling with an RV, especially in the deserts of America’s southwest, you can do what is called dry camping or boondocking. There are millions of acres of BLM land well out of range of cell and TV towers. There you can relax and explore, but still have all the comforts of home.
2. Grand Canyon – If you’re just following the crowds on the rim of the Grand Canyon, you’re still going to have digital access to distract you from the spectacular view. However, if you travel deep into the bowels of the canyon, there are places like Phantom Ranch. It takes some doing to get there, but its well worth it to travelers who want to disconnect with technology and reconnect with nature.
3. BWCA – The Boundary Waters Canoe Area on the Canadian border of Minnesota is the ultimate low tech vacation. You not only have to leave your technology behind, but also any motorized vehicles. Since everything has to be carried in, nobody wants to pack a laptop. AT&T wanted to put up a cell phone tower near the edge of the BWCA, but was prevented from doing so.
4. Fishing – Avid fishermen know that the best way to get unplugged is to go fishing. The best lakes and rivers with the biggest and most abundant fish are in remote areas far from any digital technology. Even if the cell phone works, you can’t fish and tweet at the same time. If you try, your fishing buddy is likely to throw your phone in the lake. Water and digital technology just don’t mix.
5. Alaska – Another U.S. destination that makes it easy to go low tech is Alaska. Most of the vast wilderness of our biggest state is impossible to populate with cell phone towers. It doesn’t take much research to find places like the Ultima Thule Lodge where you can be transfixed by the Northern Lights display instead of a video one.
6. Canada – That’s 5 unplugged destinations and we haven’t even left the country yet. Similar to Alaska, Canada also has vest expanses of wilderness to get away from technology. You can go camping with a tent 50 miles from the nearest store or book a vacation at one of their many fly-in resorts.
7. Mongolia – For travelers who want a more exotic location, there are very few cell phone towers in Mongolia, so it’s pretty easy to go low tech there. You won’t get any signal at the Three Camel Lodge where you can stay in a traditional felt tent used by the local nomadic herders.
8. Anquilla – In order to take temptation away from digitally addicted travelers, the Arawak Beach Inn in Anguilla locks up their digital devices upon arrival. They don’t want Blackberries and laptops distracting their guests from the relaxing vacation this Caribbean island has to offer.
9. Grenadines – If you need a place to get away from it all, go to Petit St. Vincent in the Grenadines. There you can hide from digital distractions and enjoy the beauty of another Caribbean paradise. Dig your toes into the white sand beaches and live the life of a hermit if you so desire.
10. Belize – There are certainly many vacation destinations with digital access in Belize, but the Whipray Caye Lodge is on a private island and is non-wired by design. There the topic of conversation among the guests is not the latest viral video, but the catch of the day.

No HD digital display can match the beauty of nature itself. We could all use some low tech time to relax and reflect. Instead of looking for the hotel with the best free WiFi, find a place where the only blackberries around grow on bushes and are delicious to eat. Take a moment to unplug and unwind where the only things tweeting are the birds.

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Ever since the first email accounts were created, there have been at least a few of them filling up the others’ in-boxes with bogus messages of one kind or another. Of the various types of spam that have circulated the worldwide web these many years, the urban legend has been the most enduring. Today we look at some of the classics; those whose titillatingly elaborate blends of believability, conspiratorial splendor, and downright outlandishness have suckered in about 9 out of every 10 AOL users who ever logged onto the ‘net. We give you, the 10 best urban legends ever in our email:

1. The Elevens of 9/11 – During a time of exceedingly high emotions and a search for answers, this urban legend’s combination of numerical oddities and coincidences struck a chord with many. Of course, it was all just an attempt to create some pattern out of a chaotic event. Though we do admit to being somewhat weirded out by the Wingdings bit ourselves, the Q33 part was also proven to be untrue.
2. Don’t Flash Those High-Beams! – As a supposed form of gang initiation, street thugs are reported to be driving the streets at night, with their headlights off in search of hapless prey. Their victims? Anyone foolhardy enough to flash their headlights.
3. Facebook Cartoon Characters – An instant classic in that it morphed into two separate mutations, sending many recipients scrambling in opposite directions. At first it was an attempt to stop child abuse; then it was “discovered” that the whole idea was started by a group of pedophiles looking for a way to surreptitiously friend minors. Nonsense all around.
4. It Takes Guts to Say Jesus – A warning sent out to unwary souls who would open a message with this subject line: that this is in fact a computer virus. This hoax has some legs, it’s been around for well over a decade.
5. Cash Reward for Forwarding Email – According to this urban legend, recipients of this email will earn cash awards from Microsoft or AOL for each person they forward it to, and each person who then passes it further along. Typically accompanied by a note from a lawyer and relative of the originator with check in hand, complete with their contact info.
6. Kidney Thieves – So renown is this story since its introduction that it’s been incorporated into movie plots. You know the one: an unsuspecting house guest wakes up in a tubful of ice, only to discover (gasp!) …
7. Nigerian Scam – AKA the “Advance Fee” or “419” scam (for the section in the Nigerian penal code dealing with fraud), in some form or another it’s been around for decades.  An email from a Nigerian official (or royal family member) requests that you assist them in releasing a huge sum of money. You must remit a fee to cover a transfer fee, tax or some other fee in order to get things rolling.
8. The Devil and Proctor & Gamble – We remember this particular fable from as far back as 1969. According to legend, the CEO of Proctor & Gamble, during an interview on a TV talk show (Donahue, Sally Jesse Raphael, Dick Cavett, take your pick) declared that portions of the company’s profits went to the Church of Satan. When asked if he was concerned that this revelation would hurt his business, her replied that there aren’t enough Christians in the United States to make a difference.
9. Spam ‘Til it Hurts – The names of the benefactors and their beneficiaries have varied over they years, but the premise is essentially the same: A billionaire or corporation vows to donate money for every forward of this e-mail, in order to save, or grant the dying wish of, a child.
10. It Slices, It Dices … – Emails touting long lists of unusual uses for household products are some of our favorites. Some of the suggestions are downright comical, but enduring, legends.

In the case of WD-40, there are dozens of all-purpose functions for which this miracle product is uniquely suited to do: remove scuff marks, cleans bugs off bumpers, repels pigeons. The email goes on to say that the product was created at the former San Diego Rocket Chemical Company, and was so-named because it was the 40^th attempt at a Water Displacement formula.

In this case, however, that’s all true.

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iTunes, like so many other great parts of our digital world, has things we love about it and things we hate about it. Sometimes the things we love, we also hate. Here’s my list of things I love and hate about iTunes.

1. Love: It’s easy to buy songs – Your credit card or your itunes gift card are attached to your account, so that all you have to do to purchase songs is click ‘Download’ and it transfers the song to your computer or your iphone instantly. It’s wonderful!
2. Hate: Too easy to buy songs – The other side of that story is the fact that it is so easy to do download songs that you do it more often than you would if you were purchasing at a store. It is so easy, that you don’t put as much thought into it and probably buy a lot of music that you wouldn’t have otherwise.
3. Love: You can buy a song at a time – I love the fact that you can buy just one song at a time, instead of having to buy a whole collection on a CD. You can buy just the songs you want, and they’re usually only .99 each.
4. Hate: How fast each .99 cent song adds up – Only .99, but it’s amazing how fast those dollars, less one penny, can add up to the same price of a CD. If I’d of had to buy the whole CD for that song, I wouldn’t have bought it at all. Now I’ve boughten 10 songs from ten different CD’s.
5. Love: I can sync all my devices – I can have all my music on my computer, my ipod, my iphone and my ipad. Every time I add something new in one place, I can add it to the others as well.
6. Hate: It gives preference to Apple devices – iTunes does play favorites. It’ll let you download to PC instead of a Mac, but you’ll find that it prefers to ‘play ball’ with its own mp3 players rather than the less expensive one that might work just as well.
7. Love: Having all my music in one place – iTunes keeps all your music well organized in one neat space. You can sort your music by artist or song. I can setup playlists of groups of songs. I can just keep building and building, my music collection.
8. Hate: Having to keep upgrading my ipod – I hate that I keep running out of room on my ipod and need to keep buying bigger ones to keep up with my growing music collection. I really wish they were more expandable.
9. Love: That it isn’t just music – It isn’t just music that I can buy and download from itunes. I can sign up for podcasts, TV shows, movies and books too. I can feed on digital media galore!
10. Hate: It doesn’t have that one song/podcast/show I want – For some reason, the one item I really was hoping to download tonight isn’t available on itunes. They have ‘everything’. How can they not have the one thing I wanted?

Yes, we love and hate our wonderful itunes. But since we keep using it, I guess we must love it more than we hate it. Right?

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Bandwidth caps have quickly become the norm among internet service providers, and despite their assurances that such usage restrictions would only affect a few heavy users, it’s no secret that bandwidth can evaporate pretty quickly even with average use.  Video streaming, gaming, and families of users can go through quite a few gig in a relatively short period – short enough to warrant a warning, if not a surcharge, from their ISP.  So it would be useful to know some tips on how to make the most of your allowance. Here are ten ways that you can take smaller bites out of your allotted bytes:

1. Do a Background Check – No, we don’t mean hiring a PI to dig up dirt on the CEO of your ISP. We’re talking about programs or applications that run on your device whenever it’s online. You can monitor for unnecessary drains on your resources by downloading TCP Eye.
2. Pass on the Auto Updates – Many programs will install with user-selectable update options. Use these opportunities to save bandwidth by de-selecting automatic updates. You can get the updates manually later on.
3. Block Ads – Apart from just being annoying, those pop-up ads take up bandwidth. Download ad blocking software so you can make better use of it.
4. Savings in a Flash – Some websites make use of Flash to stream videos automatically when visiting certain pages. Make sure you don’t have Flash set to run automatically. There are also flash ad blocking add-ons available for multiple browsers and platforms.
5. Cache Savings – You can set your browser to cache images, and even select the amount of memory to set aside for the task. This will allow you to retrieve stored web pages from your device’s memory rather than the web, and thereby saving you more bandwidth.
6. External Drive – You definitely need multiple back-ups of your important files in case of a crash, damage to, or theft of, your device. We recommend making use of an external drive source in favor of online storage when bandwidth is a concern.
7. Choose Wisely – Regarding those files that you do choose to backup online, you may want to be more selective about what needs safeguarding and what can simply do with a disk copy.
8. Change Your Resolution  –  Video far and away represents the largest slice of the average internet user’s bandwidth pie. If you can’t do with less video, maybe you can get by with a little less quality in your videos via a lower resolutions setting.
9. Apply Compression – As a First Aid measure for saving bandwidth, this treatment can be a life-saver. Download image optimizing software that allows you to send photos in a compressed format.
10. You’ve Got Mail Issues – Specifically: forwards, attachments, image loading – all of which can add up. Screen your inbox and only open those forwards that you really need to, and only those attachments that aren’t likely to be lolcatz; set your mail client to not load images automatically. You’ll thank us later.

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