Okay the concept of the video is a bit silly, but it’s worth four minutes and thirty seconds of your time, especially if you’re still using Internet Explorer. Take-away .. “Internet Explorer is the reason anti-virus software exists”. Firefox is the best browser for most people using a PC. Safety is the most important reason, [...]

I was one of the early adopters of Google Chrome. Even mainstream media was excited about Google’s browser. I’m a Google fan-boy. I’ve had GMail accounts forever, used Google search since the beginning. I like Google Finance, Google Analytics, iGoogle and Google Reader. I had high hopes for Chrome. I use Firefox 3 and Flock. [...]

It seems like I’ve owned a cell phone forever. My first cell phone was wired into my car. The size of the phones has decreased and the size of my bill has increased in proportion. I don’t even use my cell phone all that much, so why is my bill almost $75 a month?  How [...]

Google Chrome has been available for about two and a half hours. I’ve downloaded it and I’m using it to access WordPress to write this blog. It is screaming fast!!!! We had a shaky start. It hung trying to import my history, passwords and bookmarks. Okay, so I’ve been saving bookmarks since the earth was [...]

I received a Tweet this week announcing Mozilla Lab’s Ubiquity. It’s being called a concept now. That’s tech speak for not much functionality right now. What’s already there is amazing! It’s an add-on for Firefox. You’re not using Firefox yet? C’mon, I’ve written at least two posts telling you why you should to move to [...]

I’ve had a Yahoo! e-mail account since the earth was cooling. And that’s about the last time I used it. Spam, spam and more spam. Yahoo! is almost as bad as hotmail for attracting spam. I use GMail accounts for my personal e-mail. I don’t even remember the last time a piece of unsolicited spam [...]

In a land far away and a time long ago, I was a UNIX System Administrator. It doesn’t get any geekier than that. Fast forward to 2008 and I’m obsessed with blogging. Who knew those geek skills would be useful in real life? Business blogs are becoming more and more popular and a hosted WordPress [...]

If you have basic computer skills and a little creativity, you can produce unique inexpensive business cards. You do have to pay for shipping, but the design and printing are free, so definitely within the budget of even the most cash-strapped start-up. Just a note of caution: There is the potential to waste a lot [...]

The four free web applications I can’t live without are Jing, PicniK, Firefox3 Addons and Google Reader Jing I wrote a post when I first discovered Jing and I’ve come to rely on it for tasks I’m sure the developer never thought of. I save account and password information using Jing. It’s so easy that [...]