Posted in Tech World, The Art of Blogging on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I must admit that I’ve been long confused about exactly how trackbacks work. So I finally decided to “Google” it and came across this excellent tutorial. Thought this might help those of you, who like me, were equally confused.
Posted in Tech World on April 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s a free call to get a Business phone number vs using those costly 411 calls.
Google Voice Local Search is Google’s experimental service to make local-business search accessible over the phone.
To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone.
Using this service, you can:
search for a local business by name or category.
You [...]
Posted in Computer Tips, Tech World on April 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s a neat little Firefox hack. As most of you know, Firefox is a gobbler of memory, but here’s a way to reduce it quickly when you minimize Firefox. In preliminary testing, it dropped Firefox from 85MB of memory consumed to 10MB when it was minimized.
Check it out at Panther Moderns
Posted in Software, Tech World, Web Designing on December 20, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I tried out Opera again last night (version 9.10 is now out). Boy, does it smoke vs IE or Firefox! Pages are there just lickety split. Now if they could just figure out a way to incorporate Roboform
Posted in Software, Tech World on October 6, 2006 | No Comments »
I was listening last night to a podcast with Leo LaPorte and Paul Thurrott about the upcoming Vista operating system and that enticed me to venture over to Paul’s Supersite for Windows website, where I stumbled across an interesting article suggesting that you can have a lot of Vista while still keeping XP, so there [...]
Posted in Software, Tech World on September 23, 2006 | No Comments »
I’m alway interested in new Firefox extensions that will make browsing easier. Two recently that I found are FasterFox and Email This!
FasterFox helps pages load faster in Firefox and does seem to make a difference. You’ll have to try to see how it works for you - you can always uninstall it, of course. [...]
Posted in Exercise, Software, Tech World on September 8, 2006 | No Comments »
This is a slick new tool. I take walks daily and was wondering how far I was going and was trying to figure out how to get into an old pedometer I used to use to change out the battery. I happened to be browsing through my daily emails from Lockergnome and stumbled [...]
Posted in Tech World on September 1, 2006 | No Comments »
Netgear and Phillips are out with new standalone Skype phones. If you’re looking to save on phone bills this can be an interesting option.
This new class of phone enables Skype users to make and receive both Skype calls over the Internet and traditional landline calls, without a computer, offering the added convenience of a cordless [...]
Posted in Software, Tech World on August 31, 2006 | 1 Comment »
If you don’t have a decent Word Processor on your computer (probably most of you have Word), then Google’s Writely.com can do the trick. Tried it out today to type a letter - worked well - you can even save the file on Google’s servers, if you are so inclined (probably not a bad [...]
Posted in Software, Tech World on August 30, 2006 | No Comments »
I’m very late to this little adventure in cyberspace because until recently all I had was dialup. So finally I could download this tool - this is just too cool. One could easily spend hours playing with this. Read more about it at the Google Earth site and download a copy - it’s [...]
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