What is The World Blogging about Today?

YIPES! I NO SOONER DID I write about this and they are already sold out online. PLUS, Best Buy only has 5 of these computers per store. We all suspected... (More)

PROCESS LASSO IS A FREE and unique new technology that will, amongst other things, improve your PC's responsiveness and stability. Windows, by design, allows programs to monopolize your CPU without... (More)

THE COMPANY IS REMOVING ALMOST 10% of the workforce in a measure that apparently no one saw coming. from BBC online US software company Adobe Systems has announced it is... (More)

EASEUS PARTITION MASTER HOME EDITION is a free disk partitioning utility that offers a range of powerful functions such as resizing partitions, copying partitions, creating new partitions, deleting partitions, formatting... (More)

FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1969 the pilot of Sesame Street aired. NYC has renamed a street in honor of this milestone. 

NATSUME, A WORLDWIDE DEVELOPER AND publisher of family-oriented video games, has announced that Harvest Moon: Animal Parade for the Nintendo Wii has shipped to retail. The game is priced at... (More)

SENATORS DEBATE REQUIRING SICK LEAVE for flu "Because we haven't done enough damage yet!" Fort Hood suspect contacted Islamist: sources "We know this because we're reading his email.  Yours too."... (More)

THE IDEA THAT MAC USERS would utilize Parallels to move themselves off of Windows is unlikely at best. Don't get me wrong, the Mac user is clearly going to prefer... (More)

NOBODY LIKES FACEBOOK SCAMS. NOT one bit. But as you can clearly see from this article, Facebook may not be doing quite enough to help curb the problem. Some might... (More)

FIFTY-EIGHT PERCENT OF PRIMARY CARE doctors in the U.S. report their patients often have difficulty paying for medications and care, and half of U.S. doctors spend substantial time dealing with... (More)

FOR A LIMITED TIME AND while supplies last, order the Western Digital SATA 32MB Cache GreenPower Bulk/OEM Hard Drive from Amazon.com for as low as $189.95 shipped! (Up to 46%... (More)

I GET THE WEEKLY CIRCULAR from Micro Center delivered to my physical mail box (About the only thing in there these days), and I am always eager to see what... (More)

WHEN I TURNED 17 I immediately went to the local recruiter and joined the Army.  My mother signed the papers without batting an eye and the next day I was... (More)

HERE'S A LITTLE DEVICE THAT will reduce the number of cables you carry. ThinkGeek is selling this Ethernet crossover adapter for $7.99 US plus shipping and handling. It converts an... (More)

WHILE FOLKS IN MORE TEMPERATE climates might get a break in their utilities bills this time of year, winter comes at great expense for those who live up north. We... (More)

KANSAS CITY RUNNING BACK LARRY Johnson was released today. His behaviour on Twitter may have contributed to the Kansas City Chiefs' decision: "... According to the Kansas City Star, Johnson... (More)

I PURCHASED A BRAND NEW iPhone about a month ago, and with it came a brand new phone number. It didn't take long at all for telemarketers to start calling.... (More)

PROBLEM: YOU ARE SURFING THE internet and you come across a site that has the information you need, but it is in a language that you can't read. Solution: Google... (More)

IT WAS RECENTLY REPORTED THAT jail-broken iPhone users in Australia were getting hit by a virus that was changing their desktop backgrounds to a picture of Rick Astley with an... (More)

YESTERDAY I PURCHASED THE MOTOROLA Droid. My first smartphone in a long time. At first I had buyers remorse over plunking down $300 ($200 after rebate) for this phone. Then... (More)

UPDATE:WELL THAT WAS FAST. THE deal has already sold out. Check back tomorow to see if they do it again. You can also check your local Walmart and see if... (More)

I HAVEN'T HAD  THE BEST luck when it comes to dining out on the Oregon Coast, particularly in Cannon Beach. My bad luck streak ended at The Lumberyard Rotisserie and... (More)

I WAS ONE OF THOSE people who had said "why upgrade?" I liked Windows Vista; it simply worked for me. There were people said that I obviously didn't do anything... (More)

IT OCCURRED TO ME, NOW, after hearing the line "Telling it like it is" for the umpteenth-thousandth time that roughly 99.9% of people I've ever heard speak this line are,... (More)

RECENTLY MANY WEATHERBUG USERS HAVE noticed that the WeatherBug maps have been undergoing some fairly heavy visual changes. And in the WeatherBug forums, we have made sure everyone understood that... (More)

I HAVE BEEN USING UBUNTU full time for a few years now and Linux as a whole, for much longer. So realize I am writing this as a guy who... (More)

WHEN SELECTING YOUR SEAT ON an airplane do you just pick “whatever” aisle or window seat, even when you aren’t familiar with the plane? If so you are taking a... (More)

THIS MORNING I WAS READING an article about natural gas prices being lower this winter season by about 40% in Kentucky. The article also stated that these prices are the... (More)

HALLOWEEN IS APPROACHING, AND IT should be time to "dress up" your desktop with its own Halloween look.  Here are some of my favorite Halloween wallpapers available at WinCustomize.com.... (More)

SO WHY DID IT HAVE to happen to me?  While the rest of the technology community raves about the “best version of Windows ever!” I seem to be sitting here... (More)

[CAPTION ID="ATTACHMENT_196" ALIGN="ALIGNLEFT" WIDTH="150" CAPTION="MY Wish List"][/caption] If only I had a few hundred thousand dollars, I too could be as set up as the great Leo Laporte. Sadly, I... (More)

IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME since I blogged last. I have been super busy with school and work, so finding time to blog is very hard. The other day I... (More)

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY ONE hard drive would be 100 GB but the other one is 200 GB. There are several factors that help determine the capacity. The main ones are... (More)

NOKIA, THE LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF mobile phones on the planet, has announced that they will be suing software giants Apple for technology used in the Apple iPhone, of which Nokia... (More)

WHILE I WAS USING GOOGLE Chrome, I quickly noticed the private browsing mode. Also called incognito mode (incognito means to avoid being recognized). For times when you want to browse... (More)