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OPEN: The Small Business Network?
We signed up for another American Express card a few weeks ago, hoping to consolodate this month’s other American Express balances. American Express doesn’t work that way, apparently – despite what the salesperson told us. I’ve been a cardholder for about a year now, and have had few complaints about AmEx. Well, there was that [...]
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 for PDFs
It’s true; the seventh version of the Acrobat Reader is light years better than 6.0 in terms of speed and UI snappiness. PDF is PDC (pretty darn common), so having a good PDF viewer is essential. If you haven’t already done so, go ahead and grab Acrobat Reader 7. I’ve got it installed alongside Adobe [...]
Donate and Get Free Software!
Want to do well by doing good? YOU can make a difference in the fight to help the millions of victims of the recent tsunami disaster. You can also help yourself to some free software at the same time. The gang at CoffeeCup Software are offering you all a real deal- donate to the relief [...]
Old Coffee Makers Are Still Cool!
Two people wrote to me and said they won’t give up their old-fashioned coffee maker for the pod-style ones just yet. Ah, I should’ve mentioned that the review wasn’t about replacing those, but a review of the single-brewers without comparing them to the good ol’ machines. Should’ve thought to mention that. I love my Braun [...]
Still Going with the Gazelle
I’ve been a huge fan of Tony Little’s Gazelle for several months now. Out of all the exercise equipment I’ve ever used (at home or remotely), it’s been the easiest, cleanest, and most effective. It’s a glider, not an eliptical. Tony Little is more than a little annoying with his commercial, but don’t ignore his [...]
Use Your (Windows) Power for Good
It’s like the Lycos “Make Love Not Spam” project, only with all that concentrated computing power being focussed on the public good. The World Community Grid is an organization whose lofty goal is to “create the world’s largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity”. They do this by harnessing the computer power [...]
Cobian Backup v6.1.0.254
Cobian Backup is a small and simple utility to back up files and directories from someplace in your computer to another place in the same computer or to a shared drive in another machine. A pretty simple concept, really! You can set the program to automatically make a backup within regular intervals of time, for [...]
WebMD Health
As human beings, we usually try our best to watch out for ourselves. We avoid potentially harmful situations because we know that there is a chance that we could get seriously injured. All of us care about our well being, and we continually strive to improve ourselves. However, one of the facets of life that [...]
Suspicious Processes
Q: Every time that I startup my computer, a process called “mslagent” tries to connect to the Internet. I see the “ms” in the name and assume it’s from Microsoft, but I really don’t know what this process does. Is it safe to let it run, or should I completely stop it from loading?
This Is The Voice Of Experience Talking
Since this is the time of year that people send a lot of cards to each other, and since many seniors like to send out cards for special occasions, part of any formal course might include some work on creating personalized greeting cards. This can be a danger. Over the years, I have acquired a [...]
