2006 December

On our cruise to Alaska, I remarked how they were wasting computer lab space by not offering basic classes to passengers (aboard a Holland America liner). Regent Seven Seas Cruises is doing it! I should poke my head in just to see how well it goes, although I doubt anybody would recognize me as a […]

With this 3D New Year’s Countdown Screensaver, Hourglasses and timepieces float around as the clock softly counts down to the New Year. When midnight comes, confetti falls and a flashing Happy New Year greeting is played with an orchestral rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
New Year’s greeting plays all day New Year’s Day. The screensaver […]

MoveOnBoot allows you to copy, move, or delete files on the next system boot. This can come in handy if you need to replace or delete files that are locked by other applications, loaded into memory, or cannot be changed until next system boot.
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TIME Magazine has named you (yes, you) the Person of the Year for 2006. That may be hard to believe if you’re just a small blogger who occasionally records a quick podcast and contributes to Digg on a fairly regular basis, but the truth is, all of us who are active online are taking a […]

If you are running a small workgroup of computers, you may want to use a computer running Windows Vista as a Web server. You can do so by installing Internet Information Services (IIS). It is included with Windows Vista but is not installed by default. Once it has been installed, it provides for basic Web […]

Once you install IE7, you get the functionality of a pop-up blocker without having to download any third party software. The Pop-up Blocker is automatically enabled IE7 so most pop-ups should be blocked on your computer.
You can change the settings of the Pop-up Blocker within Internet Explorer by clicking Tools, pointing to Pop-Up Blocker, and […]

For server administrators, patch management can be a way of life. But for home users, patch management is a distant thought in most home computer users. Knowing when to patch products and how often patches need to be applied are some of the questions that most home users never think about. Knowing what to patch […]

What happens when you put a newly-married geek on a cruise ship with 699 other people for approximately two weeks? Controlled chaos. The honeymoon is on, and I intend on bringing technology with me every step of the way! Yes, I realize the moneymoon isn’t supposed to be about all the latest gadgets and gizmos, […]

Trace and report hackers, investigate Web sites with Visual IP Trace:
Knowing where a suspect intruder is located, where a malicious email originated, or validating the location of a Web site is key information to identify security threats, and track and report abusers.
While many IP lookup tools only provide network provider locations, Visual IP Trace’s unique […]

This tax calculator instantly estimates your U.S. federal income tax and finds your tax brackets. Tax brackets show percentage of tax that you pay on additional income. Income Tax Calculator shows current and past tax brackets and estimates federal tax for years 2000-2006. It includes an option of different filing status and shows average tax […]

I enjoy attending technology conferences whenever my schedule and financial resources allow me to do so. It’s nice to actually see and interact with people in person once you’ve talked to them on the Internet through e-mail, instant messaging, or some other means for quite some time. These personal conferences only come around at certain […]

Windows Vista will create a Documents folder for each user that logs onto the computer. The default location for this folder is c:\Users\username\Documents (assuming of course that you have installed Vista on your C: drive).
You can change the location where this folder is stored. From the Start menu, right click Documents and select Properties. […]

Anyone who uses a computer on a regular basis has been faced with a 404 error message. This irritating little obstacle to our research or fun-search activities can be a bit of an irritation for most of us. The 404 error message commonly appears when we request a URL that the server does not have. […]

This holiday season, iPods, digital cameras, and other digital media players are expected to dominate the consumer electronics holiday gift market. With iTunes selling over 1.5 billion songs so far (including 1 million videos per week) and digital camera sales expected to top the 26 million mark, there’s a lot of digital content on laptops […]

Oh, what a wonderful Christmas Eve we had - with Ponzi’s aunt and uncle, and our good friend Brandon Paddock. It was a quiet evening, for the most part. We had dinner, exchanged a few gifts, decked the ficus with a single string of lights (as we didn’t get a Christmas tree this year), and […]

Do you have any secrets? I am sure you do not want to share them with me, so I will go down a different road. Instead of trying to pry any information out of you, I will just help you find a way to keep your secrets even better. Free Hide Folder is a neat […]

With so many retailers and products online, it’s no wonder that shopping on the Internet can be an overwhelming ordeal. You may have a collection of Web sites that are your favorite to order from, but chances are that you might be able to find better deals if you expand your search and look elsewhere. […]

Recently I suggested to some seniors that they install Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware on their computers to make occasional checks on the status of uninvited guests. The suggestion was in an email with the further suggestion that they google on the titles of the two apps and go to the obvious sites to […]

Many of us who have camera phones tend to neglect their potential, especially us older folks. Youngsters, with their natural affinity for technology and a desire to play with all the bells and whistles on their favorite appliance, probably do more shooting (and thus learn more about their phone cameras) than those of us who […]

There has been a lot of discussion lately about VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone service. VoIP is, indeed, becoming the alternative to traditional telephone service. But like any consumer product, it pays to shop around for the best price and service on VoIP Internet phone service before you buy.
Virtually all VoIP service packages will […]