2007 April

Last week, when I was out of town, Ponzi had a slumber party with a couple of friends. We encouraged them to stream their cooking live, and the chat room went berserk. Everyone was asking her about all her favorite tips, tools, brands, etc. They whipped up a nice “casserole” of leftovers - which Ponzi […]

This week’s PC World collection:
OpenOffice.org
Free suite includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database, and drawing and presentation programs.
PowerVideoMaker Professional v2.0
Now playing on DVD: Your PowerPoint presentation.
PrimoPDF
Free app lets you turn any printable document into a PDF without a hitch.
PPTools Protect
Share and secure for PowerPoint slides and presentations.
Image to PDF Desktop Application
Convert one or more […]

Your evil step-brother has taken over the kingdom, but will allow you to buy back your family’s castle if you can earn enough gold. This is how your adventure begins in Grimm’s Hatchery!
This mystical tale is packed with twenty types of magical pets, four hatcheries, and several villages to explore! You can hatch pets, […]

One of the things that I hate about purchasing plane tickets is that I always feel like I’m getting ripped off. I recently had to book a couple of tickets less than two weeks before the departure date, and the entire time that I was booking the tickets, I kept thinking about how much money […]

I just finished reading an article in Leo Notenboom’s column Ask Leo, courtesy of FreewareWiki. Leo, always in there with the best path through the nuts and bolts of computer use, outlines a quick, easy way to back up all your Gmail.
Now theoretically you shouldn’t need to back up your Gmail at all, but extreme […]

If you use Microsoft Word, you have probably seen the list of documents that appear at the bottom of the File menu. You recently opened these Word documents. This list offers a quick way for you to access files (similar to the My Recent Documents on the Windows XP Start Menu).
Word 2007 maintains a default […]

This showed up in my inbox today and it amused me enough to figure you folks might get a kick out of it, too!
Mr. Chris Pirillo,
I can’t think of a better opening line that will grab your attention causing you to eagerly consume each word of the first line only to bring you to the […]

Okay, it’s been a while since I’ve bothered to mention it - but PikSpot has finally released into public beta their community content platform. It’s certainly evolved since I first looked at it a few months ago. Before you fade out and assume this is just another network, let me give you a few of […]

Compete for a dream job with Donald Trump in this innovative twist on time management games!
Test your skills in four iconic LA settings, each with its own gameplay style. It’s like having four games in one! You’ll prepare food, manage your assistants, and control your inventory, all the while serving your customers as efficiently […]

AbsoluteShield Internet Eraser Lite contains a pop-up blocker and a privacy protector. It protects your privacy by cleaning all the tracks of your Internet and computer activities. The tool is integrated with Internet Explorer and can erase the browser history, cookies, typed URLs, recent documents, Recycle Bin, and temporary folders in one click, completely removing […]

As you probably already know by now, tag clouds are helpful components of Web sites that allow users to quickly see what topics are being talked about. The bigger a tag appears in the cloud, the more it’s being talked about. Tags have become a useful way of categorizing and finding content, and tag clouds […]

I get really tired of pronouncements and pontifications about how dangerous it is to use Google’s services. It seems like everyone with a blog and a smattering of knowledge about things that go “bump” online eventually checks in with a paranoid rant about how Google is really the Great Satan and how we’re nuts to […]

I often find myself using bulleted lists when I create a Word document. It is a good way of presenting certain points that should stand out from other text. The easy way of inserting a bulleted list is to click the Bullets option in the Paragraph group. Word will insert default symbols for the bullets.
You […]

Apparently, we made quite an impression with the dedication. This morning, we found this message from Katie Gruver, Marketing Manager for Unitus (Innovative Solutions to Global Poverty) flaoting in our respective inboxes:
On behalf of the Unitus team… I just wanted to say a HUGE thanks for lighting a fire on our Empowering Women site. Your […]

Cacheboost Pro optimizes the system cache management of Windows XP/2k/NT and .NET Servers. This results in a performance boost without any new hardware, hardware tweaking, and without restricting your system’s stability. Simply install Cacheboost and you are ready to go.
No special configuration or rebooting is needed. Within minutes you activate your system’s unused resources.
Cacheboost […]

Microsoft Fiddler is an HTTP Debugging Proxy that logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP traffic, set breakpoints, and fiddle with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based […]

If you’ve ever browsed through eBay, then you know that both buyers and sellers have ratings and reviews that let you know ahead of time whether or not that individual is a good person to do business with. In a marketplace like eBay, this type of evaluation system is very important, but even then, it’s […]

In response to Microsoft Windows Is In Big, BIG Trouble, Gnomie Nicholas J. Mincone writes:
Chris,
I truly enjoyed this article, and I shared many of your thoughts until I came to your “points” section. If I may address each one briefly:
Apple Must Be More Competitive. Competitive with who? No one currently makes better hardware or […]

Happy O-Day!
10% off plus $1 shipping at Overstock.com! (valid 4/27/07 - 4/30/07 @ 11:59 PM MST).
Product Deals
Save an additional 13% on a Journee White Double Strap Shoulder Handbag - Expires 5/9/07 11:59PM MST
Save an additional $20 on Serta Ultimate 4-inch Memory Foam Mattress Topper - Expires 5/9/07 11:59PM MST
Save an additional $15 off a Sahara […]

A few days ago, my friend Dave Shappell (not Dave Chappelle) sent me a simple email:
Not sure if I told you how Dave McClure and I met… but it was through a microfinance-enabling/poverty-fighting organization called Unitus - it was started by a former Microsoftie (Mike Murray), who was the same guy who was running Apple […]