Bill

For those bloggers who use Firefox, especially those who maintain more than one blog, I can’t keep myself from touting Scribefire one more time. The extension (or add-on, as they’re now called) is being maintained again after a several months’ hiatus, and new functions are being added every few days. The latest are [...]

I recently wrote in the blog about a problem I had with an online photo and electronics supplier, how I chose to go with B&H Photo Video, and how — based on their service — I would be dealing only with them in the future.
Here’s a good example of why. On the 11th of [...]

Love them or hate them, most folks will say that the one big flaw remaining in Google’s applications is the inability to sync reliably with Microsoft Outlook, still the most-used personal and business schedule management tool.
That obstacle has been made smaller, if not removed entirely, by Google’s announcement on Friday that Google Calendar will now [...]

Actual Booster 3.1 is a speed-up-your-PC utility that really works. I read about it on Ian (Gizmo) Richard’s excellent Tech Support Newsletter, and tried it based on his recommendation.
The piece of… ah… cheese much-repaired eMachine at work (not my problem or responsibility) runs much faster. My 3.2 Pentium D at home is quicker with processor-intensive [...]

I’ve written about Jott at least once before, and I believe someone else has mentioned it on this site, too. I feel as though I ought to tell you about it again, though, since they keep upgrading and adding to the service. If you looked at it before and decided it wasn’t for you (although [...]

I don’t generally care to post on Windows Fanatics with just a link to another site. It isn’t what you folks come here for. I’m making an exception in this case, however, because of the importance of this particular series of articles. They are provided by the Knight Citizens News Network, and [...]

A couple of days ago, I wrote glowingly of a little program called Darkroom, which is a simple text editor that blacks out my screen and gives me a non-distracting interface so that I can concentrate on my writing. Darkroom is an example of what’s coming to be known as “zenware,” an attempt to get [...]

Most of you know that I’m a bull when it comes to online applications like word processors — what’s come to be called “Cloud Computing.” I was an early adopter of Writely (now part of Google Applications), a Beta tester on Zoho, and I’ve tried just about every available Web-based word processor of any [...]

Back not too long before Christmas, My-wife-the-shrink and I decided to upgrade our phones. Both of us had Sony-Ericsson z520as, and both of us despised them. Well, actually, the phones weren’t bad, but the software was terrible. I suspect it was awful to begin with, and after Cingular added their crippleware to [...]

This may be the newest idea in computing: a simplified, does practically nothing but show you what you’re typing, “word processor.”
I put that in quotes for a simple reason. I’m not sure this thing even qualifies as a word processor. I’m not even sure it’s a text editor, except in a basic sense. It does [...]