You have likely seen a tweet on Twitter with a hashtag on the end — one of the most popular and reoccurring hashtags is the tag #followfriday. A hashtag is used to organize tweets around a single topic so that all related tweets are easily …continue reading
Can you Compare the $138 Coby Kyros To Apple’s iPad at $499?
Trying to compare a $138 Coby Kyros tablet to a $499 Apple iPad is like trying to compare a Mercedes Benz to a Toyota Corolla. With that being said, both the Mercedes Benz and Toyota Corolla provide a similar function in that both transport people …continue reading
Connections
This post is only peripherally about seniors and computing issues. It does involve some computing by me (a senior), as you will see, but the main point is the connections in our daily lives and how they can surprise us.
Through a strange linkage of …continue reading
Who Controls The Technology Marketplace? We Consumers Do!
Billions of dollars are being spent every year in the hopes of convincing the U.S. consumer to purchase a variety of different technology products. In the end it is we consumers who decide which products will come out on top and which will end up …continue reading
iPhone For The Enterprise
In the past I have heard claims that the iPhone simply isn’t really enterprise ready. Based on what I’ve seen in the recent three releases of the iOS platform, I’d say it’s the competition who isn’t ready. Android and even Microsoft’s own Windows Phone 7 …continue reading
Why Delicious Users Should Take 30 Seconds to Email AVOS About the New Terms of Service
Violet Blue is right and Marshall Kirkpatrick is wrong.
Delicious could be one of the most important taxonomies on the Internet. Despite people like me using Delicious in entirely self-serving ways to increase backlinks to my own writing, the cataloging of links available …continue reading
How To Protect Your Data from Unauthorized Viewing
If you are concerned about the security and integrity of the files, information and other data on your computer running Windows Vista or Windows 7, you may want to encrypt your your files and other data from unauthorized viewing. Unauthorized viewing of the data on …continue reading
Activity or Productivity?
Who doesn’t like to do stuff? Of course, stuff can entail a lot of… well, stuff. And things. And isn’t doing something a lot better than doing nothing? Mama didn’t raise no bump on a log, and being a layabout deadbeat won’t accomplish nothin’, no …continue reading
How to Make a Secure Password
Routinely we’ve been told to think of a crazy combination of letters, numbers and characters to make a secure password. Something like this is supposed to be generated and burned into our memories, yet changed every few months on every single site that requires a …continue reading
How to Use Twitter Lists
Twitter is a popular social network that connects you with the latest breaking news, trends, gossip, and other information that you find interesting. With Twitter you follow public streams of tweets related to topics you want to read about, or sign up to follow Twitter …continue reading
Running Comic Life Under Ubuntu
By now you’ve already seen the video demonstrating how Chris creates comics from photos. As Chris points out, it’s really easy to use on OS X to create comics, because the iPhone does so much of the heavy lifting with an app called …continue reading
How to Make Your PowerPoint Presentations More Accessible With STAMP
Would you like to make your presentations more accessible? STAMP, or Subtitling Text Add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint, is a free public beta that lets you add closed captions to video and audio files, thereby making your presentations more accessible.
Note: This free add-in only works …continue reading
How To Export Your Firefox Bookmarks
If you currently use Firefox as your Web browser, you may have dozens of bookmarks saved so that you can easily access your favorite Web sites. If you are now planning to switch from Firefox to either a new browser or to a new computer …continue reading
How To Change All Caps To Lowercase
Typing in all caps is never necessary. Using capitalization is important to be grammatically correct; typing a sentence in ALL CAPS is considered shouting and generally frowned upon as rude in online conversation. Unless you are indeed having a shouting match over email or instant …continue reading
How To Delete A File “Being Used by Another Program”
If you have ever tried to delete a file or program but get an error message that you “cannot delete file: access is denied,” you know how frustrating these and related error messages can be. These error messages occur due to file-access restrictions that are …continue reading
How to Edit Photos with Picnik
Photo-editing software can be expensive – especially for families and startups with a small budget. Online photo editing tools provide many of the same popular photo-editing needs as those found in software like PhotoShop, but at a much lower cost – even sometimes free. Picnik …continue reading
Why We All Should Be Concerned About The Sony PlayStation Data Loss Incident
When I first read about the Sony PlayStation incident in which data theft occurred, I thought to myself it didn’t concern me. So what if some hacker obtained the names, addresses, email addresses credit card information of some 77 million users of Sony PlayStation online, …continue reading
Secured or Unsecured Wireless Network – Which Should You Use?
You may have seen or read about the report about a Sarasota, Florida man who had an unexpected visit from the FBI in February of this year. The FBI was investigating the man for the illegal distribution of child pornography that was being distributed from …continue reading
Didn’t Get An Invite From Kate and Will? Visit the Official Royal Wedding Web Site Instead
I was watching CBS news this morning and they announced they would be covering the Royal Wedding starting on Friday, April 29th at 4:00 am eastern time. Even though I wish the royal couple well in their marriage, I doubt if I will be getting …continue reading
How to Record Internet Radio on the Mac
If you like radio, it’s a great time to be alive. Internet radio stations abound to feed you delicious audio servings of pretty much anything you might wish for: pundit ping pong, Turkish pop, old-fashioned rock n’ roll, sports coverage, Irish hip hop, post punk, …continue reading
Top 5 Online Photo Editing Sites
Gnomie Vishal (aka yankeeballer92 in our chat room) writes:
I have been using the product Adobe Photoshop for a long time — until I noticed the trial wasn’t long enough for me and all the editing I do. So I did some research and …continue reading
5 Things You Can Do Without Installing Software
Web apps have increased in popularity at an astonishing rate over the past few years. While you’ve almost always been able to do things like play cards with others and check email, the kind of functionality found on some modern sites can actually compete with …continue reading
Top Chrome Extensions By Google
I’ve been a very satisfied Chrome browser user for many months now. Back when I first made the switch to Chrome, I was a bit skeptical about the browser’s value and whether or not it would end up being a good fit for …continue reading
How to Get Help With Microsoft Office
If you’re looking for some help and support with Microsoft Office, there are several options available — from books and training to online forums. The trick is knowing where to find these help and support resources and when to use them. Of course, you can …continue reading
Do Wi-Fi Range Extenders Work?
If you live in a large house or apartment, your Wi-fi network my generate a strong signal in the immediate area of your router. As you move upstairs or across hour home, you may find that the signal weakens or becomes entirely non existent. Wi-Fi …continue reading
How To Use Twitter From Your Phone
Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest breaking news, trends, gossip, or other information that is interesting to you. With Twitter you can either follow public streams, or sign up with Twitter to follow other Twitter users and add them …continue reading
Facebook Pages Are Not Private, But Here’s How To Control Your Privacy Settings
There are now over 600 million users on Facebook. If you also have a Facebook profile, you may not want every Facebook user to be able to view all or even part of your Facebook profile. While Facebook does not have an option to …continue reading
How To Set Your Facebook Status From Your Phone
The great thing about Facebook is being able to share exactly what you are doing with all of your friends – no matter where you are. You can update your Facebook status from you home computer or PC at Facebook.com, but if you’re on the …continue reading
SSD Supercomputer Gordon Tries to Outpace Moore’s Law
Way back in 1965, Intel’s co-founder Gordon Moore declared that the technology allowing us to cheaply expand transistor volume on integrated circuits would double every two years, and this has proved true — and applicable to other computer and consumer electronics-related technologies from memory capacity …continue reading
Ringtone Librarian Offers 15,000 Ringtones for Your iPhone
Stephan Schütze is an interesting character. He’s the father of the Sound Library and The Foundation Library sound effects collections, and he dedicates himself to going the extra mile to create and capture cool sound effects (literally — he’ll fly to faraway locations on distant …continue reading
