Windows
Dellfire And Tarnation!
Gnomie John Kotson writes: Three years ago I bought a factory-refurbished Dell Latitude notebook for my wife to use. Up until yesterday I was very pleased with it, and aside from having to wipe the hard drive after a virus two years ago, I haven’t had anything go wrong with it. Yesterday, however it would [...]
Checking into the Podcast Hotel
I’m happy to be involved with this week’s podcast conference up here in Seattle – if you’re in town, I hope to see you there. I still can’t believe we were given the opportunity to interview Dave Dederer of The Presidents of The United States of America the other night on our show! He’s a [...]
Unclaimed Baggage Center
If your luggage has ever been lost while traveling by airplane or any other means, then you know how frustrating it can be. All of us just expect to land and pick up our belongings, which is reasonable, but it doesn’t always go that smoothly. In fact, some people are never able to reclaim their [...]
Pandora – Find Music You'll Love
Just last week I was ranting at Bob, the editor, about “cut and paste” reviews, and now I find myself doing one. It pays to keep your words tender and sweet, in case you have to eat them. Nevertheless, I can’t see how I could improve on the description of Pandora that has been provided [...]
Oceans May Soon Be As Corrosive As When The Dinosaurs Died
Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology will present research today at the AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences meeting in Honolulu that not only are carbon dioxide emissions making the world’s oceans more acidic, but that, if unabated, this acidity could cause a mass extinction of marine life similar to one that occurred 65 [...]
Managing Cookies On A Per-Site Basis
Internet Explorer also allows you to manage cookies on a per-site basis. Any site specific settings you configure will override the privacy level configured on the Privacy tab (unless Allow All Cookies or Block All Cookies is selected). You can use the steps outlined below to configure per site privacy actions. Open Internet Explorer. Click [...]
Microsoft's New Beta Defending Against Trojans And Viruses?
After running our first deep scan with Windows Defender, the latest beta of Microsoft’s AntiSpyware, we were greeted with a laundry list of found pests. “Odd,” we thought, since the previous night’s scan of last the Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1 found nothing. So we took a peek under the logs and what did we find? [...]
Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
Our resident Technobabbler, Dan Gray, has been on a mission to uncover the light of compact fluorescent light bulbs. Are these types of light bulbs better than the rest? Energy saving or not, I can tell you that Ponzi has been a believer in light therapy since I got her a compact desk unit for [...]
Pricepirates v3.0
Pricepirates is a handy price comparison tool that enables you to compare prices for products between available eBay listings and offers in a variety of regular online stores via Shopping.com, as well as Amazon Marketplace. The program provides a very efficient way to find the best offers for what you’re looking, and also includes features [...]
Postcrossing
Those of us who are technically savvy usually tend to rely on e-mail as our primary form of communication. To us, the Inbox is a very sacred thing, and we check it more frequently than we probably care to admit. With all of this electronic communication going around, it’s easy to forget about how nice [...]
