What is the most important part of your computer? Is it the monitor, the keyboard, the hard drive? How about the memory? Maybe it’s the operating system or maybe it’s your email program. I’ll admit that all of those are key components of your computer, but in my opinion, the most important part is your…
I have a confession to make. I like to print things. I enjoy reading things on line, but when something really gets to me (both in a good way and in a not so good way) I want a hard copy of it. Consequently, I am often found doing copy and paste from websites and…
Yesterday I went shopping with my two grandsons. They had received some Best Buy gift cards as Christmas presents and those gift cards had been “burning a hole” in their pockets ever since. The oldest grandson had no trouble picking out what he wanted which was a WiFi adaptor for his xbox 360. We looked…
I’ve recently been running some hands on classes that required the attendees to do some preparation work before coming to the class. One of the students was struggling with a few of the assignments and I knew that if I could just show him the proper things to do, that he could get back on…
I often come across interesting things while noodling around on the internet. But, most of the time they don’t warrant a full write up here. So, I just collect them in a file until I collect enough to fill an article. That day has arrived, so here are three web based services that can help…
Most of my time on computers is spent on my iMac or my MacBook Pro and I am thrilled that I made the switch to Mac a few years back. But, there are occasions when I have to use my Windows 7 desktop machine at my office. I also have Windows XP Service Pack 3…
It’s that time of the year! Thanksgiving is only 10 days away and that means that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are 11 and 14 days away as well. I shouldn’t have to tell you what they are, but if you need a refresher, here are links to Wikipedia articles that will fill you in…
On September 5th, I wrote about Nutshell Mail which aggregates everything social into an email. Today I want to briefly tell you about Social Mention which does a similar thing, but goes further to help you understand your reach and the sentiment that you evoke among your social graph. I’ve included a screen shot of…
Where did my day go? I just sat down to check my email and now it’s dinner time. Along the way I stopped into Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and before I knew it the day was gone. Sound familiar? For many of us the allure of social networking is the ease by which we can…
How many times have you been working away on your computer or phone and ran into a problem? And there was no one around who could help you solve it? Even if it only happens once, that’s one time too many! Luckily, there are some pretty nifty resources on the web that could help you…
