Fellow WordPress bloggers who haven’t done so ought to consider installing Gears so they can run Turbo. Go to Dashboard and click the “Turbo” link in the upper right corner. Follow the directions and download Google Gears installer, then run it and follow the directions.
Gears, when combined with WordPress, downloads and stores substantial [...]
Perniciously pimping my pitifully pathological perversion, my buddy Gary Lee at EliteLED sent me another flashlight to try out. This one approaches perfection, according to my personal standards, which are as follows:
Priced so that a sane person might want to buy it;
Well-made and able to take most punishment, short of being run over by [...]
I’m interested in some opinions here.
There’s a lot of discussion these days about tiered broadband (TB). For those who don’t know, in a nutshell TB involves charging people according to the bandwidth they use, either by selling “high usage” plans or by charging for bandwidth (number of Gigabytes sent) over a certain limit contained [...]
A friend and I were discussing colors of flashlights. (Yes, I do get into some odd discussions.) He has a shop, and is thinking about stocking a new model that comes in a variety of colors. However, the minimum order of each is pretty high, and he doesn’t want to stock large quantities of odd [...]
Well, Google Docs has finally added the one feature that, IMNSHO, was the deal-breaker as far as using it for everyday word-processing: a page view, as opposed to the “normal” (Web) view that was the only way you could work before.
While Docs has been quite admirable for general use since the Writely days, those of [...]
In the previous installment, I wrote about the five absolute necessities: water, light, food, first aid/medical supplies, and medications. I suggested ways to deal with these needs ahead of time and efficiently, based on my own experience in emergencies of several kinds, including direct hits by five hurricanes.
In Part 2, I’m adding to the list [...]
We’ve all learned a lot about disasters and emergencies over the past several years. Many of us, especially along the coastlines, learned from personal experience, and the entire world by proxy. The devastations of hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis should have left little doubt in anyone’s mind about the need for at least a [...]
One of the PCs I use frequently is an old eMachines box with less than stellar performance. Many of the applications that I take for granted on my desktop at home won’t perform well enough to bother with, and some of those that do perform their jobs only grudgingly.
Try as I might, I don’t [...]
The new version of QFX Software’s KeyScrambler is out, and even the free version (Personal) has greatly expanded coverage. The browser add-on protects everything you type into a Web page on all Web sites and in all parts of the browser:
All Web sites: login credentials, credit card numbers, passwords, search terms, and more.
All parts of [...]
This is a quickie, but a really important quickie if you use FlashGet.
My buddy Steve Bass, in his Tips and Tweaks blog, relates the following:
I just uninstalled FlashGet, my favorite downloading program. It’s got a big, inviting security hole that can — and did — let a nasty Trojan worm its way onto my system. [...]
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