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IN THE FIRST THREE ARTICLES, Death By Twitter, Life After Twitter, and Life Beyond Twitter, I shared with you stories from my parent's computer retail business, my own woes with... (More)

DO WE REALLY NEED LOCAL listings through Bing? Well of course those who are using Bing need something along this line, just to keep up with Google. The real question... (More)

FIRST LADY TACKLES CHILD OBESITYSHE needs to tackle child stupidity instead.Tiger Woods & Rosie O'Donnell Make For Least Desirable Valentines According To New SurveyHitler bad, according to... (More)

DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS, I have been trying to help one of our readers who is having a problem with using XP Backup. His laptop does not have a... (More)

THE LITTLE FLAP OVER THE ex-governor’s use of schoolboy tactics to remember certain talking  points is providing the people in the United Kingdom at least a small respite from their... (More)

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MICROBLOGGING SITES have not only made one of the biggest contributions to the internet over the last decade, but they also have revolutionized the way that we... (More)

A RECENT REPORT SHOWS THAT artery walls of people living within 100 meters of a highway thicken more than twice as fast as an average person. The report says: "Ostensibly,... (More)

IN THIS RUNAS RADIO PODCAST, Richard and I talk to Rodney Buike about the upcoming Office 2010.While he couldn't commit to a launch date (go search online; there's lots... (More)

WE AT HALFBRICK ARE VERY happy to announce Age of Zombies -- Rated T for TEEN -- for the PSP and PS3 minis. We know what you are thinking --... (More)

SPICEBIRD IS A COLLABORATION CLIENT that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring, and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various Web services while retaining... (More)

APPLES NEWEST ADDITION TO THE Apple Store arrived today. Aperture 3 was introduced. Now, most Mac users are probably quite familiar with the previous version of Aperture, and will most likely... (More)

BRAKING PROBLEMS HAVE FORCED TOYOTA to extend its recall. And the public relations nightmare grows.Toyota has included the Prius and the Lexus in its recall:"... The world's largest... (More)

WE'VE ALL HAD GRIPES ABOUT Flash with Linux at one time or another. And the same kind of feelings have also plagued those who use OS X as well. Today,... (More)

ACT QUICK, TO AN INCREDIBLE deal on the Data Robotics Drobo 4-Bay USB 2.0/FireWire 800 SATA Storage Array DR04DD10!For a limited time and while supplies last, order the Data... (More)

THIS GARMIN IS ONE HECK of a deal at only $99.99. The unit includes a GPs with Bluetooth and also voice directions. The unit will announce the street names so... (More)

DO YOU HAVE A SCHOOL/TECH related question? Leave it in the “SchoolTech Mailbag!”  I can’t guarantee an answer, but I’ll make the effort. Contact me here. (New Mailbag entries will... (More)

THIS CHRISTMAS I GOT A few new things to make my Mac Pro actually be a Mac Pro. Up until this point, I only had 2 GB of RAM. As... (More)

IF YOU ARE THE KIND that runs to cracks and keygens after installing any new shareware software, wait. It is more harmful, because those sites not only serve you trial... (More)

I'M SURE MANY OF YOU readers have seen and read reviews or "hands-on previews" of the latest gizmo from Apple, the iPad. There have been topics discussed -- whether it's... (More)

FOR THOSE OF YOU LIVING on the East Coast, you may find that your weekend is going to be filled with some fairly significant severe weather. Now you could simply... (More)

LET'S FACE IT: EBAY HAS made a lot of changes to their pricing models and it seems that overall improvements to the site have been slow. So I asked a... (More)

EVER WANTED TO LISTEN TO a song but you can't find it anyway? Well not anymore. There is a free music service on the Web called grooveshark.com.Once you're in... (More)

2010 IS SHAPING UP TO be the year that the electric car takes off. Although a lot of folks have been swept up by the promise that electrified transportation holds,... (More)

APPLE HAS FINALLY FIXED A problem it had in initial promotional videos for the iPad. According to MacRumors.com, the first releases of these videos showed Flash applications properly loading within the Safari... (More)

MULTITASKING IS ONE "FEATURE" I have surely been taking for granted. Multitasking has been one of the greatest personal computing innovations since the graphic user interface. Sitting at your Mac... (More)

THIS FREE GUIDE SUPPLIES YOU with numerous tips, tricks, and free applications. Get the hang of the interface and discover what your Mac is really capable of.Gone are the... (More)

THE OTHER DAY I WAS sitting with my nephew watching a children's computer generated show called The Future Is Wild and it got me intrigued.  The show tells the story... (More)

I AM SURE YOU ALL have not heard enough about Apple’s new iPad, right? Well I want to tell you what I think will be an excellent use, and possible... (More)

JANUARY IS ABOUT TO WRAP up, and here are some of my favorite wallpapers from the past few weeks.  Just click the link to be taken to the download page.... (More)

SO THE WAIT IS OVER! After what seems like years of speculation, the "Apple tablet" is finally here. Much has been written over the last few hours about Apple's new... (More)

EXCERPT FROM A CHAT I had with a friend:lolNow does that mean you're actually laughing out loud, or you just don't know what to say?I came close.... (More)

HELLO AND WELCOME BACK TO my blog!  Today one of the junior DBAs came to me and asked when he views the locks in SQL Server by executing sp_lock or... (More)

SO I'VE SOME FRIENDS WHO have just started up their own tech blogging website, RightClickReload.com.  These are the guys I usually go to when I have an immediate tech question... (More)

WHAT'S WORSE THAN A WINDOWS fanboy? An Apple one. Sure, the typical Windows fanboy will say that the Macintosh cannot play games, and that you cannot build your own "rig,"... (More)