I went to the local Office Depot to pick up a new hard drive for a PC that I am rebuilding. As I have not really needed a drive recently, the specs that I had in my mind were: IDE interface , 7200 rpm, and a capacity of about 80 Gigabytes (GB).
Connecting to the Internet
Over the course of the last couple of weeks, I have seen quite a number of articles that discuss Comcast and Net Neutrality (or their lack of). As I have said in the past, I currently have a Comcast cable
Why does Earthlink still send me mail?
About four years ago, I upgraded my internet connection from Earthlink DSL (768 Kbps) to Comcast Cable (6.0 Mbps) . Since then, every month or two, I receive mail from Earthlink asking me to come back.
While I appreciate that Earthlink might not know what kind of service I switched to, I still have to ask why they spend money trying to get me back. Unless they think that I switched to dial-up, how can they even try to compete for my business?
Craiglist & Bookmarks
On any given day I access Craigslist from a few different computers. It would be nice to be able to bookmark a posting on Craigslist without having to remember what category and search parameters I used to find it or
“Pass the Buck” Tech Support
A friend of mine (we’ll call him Ted) recently dropped his laptop off with me for help backing it up. I asked Ted why he suddenly needed to back it up and he told me that he is changing over
Sounds of the Game
This evening (Thursday – October 26th) I am sitting here watching the 2nd game of the 2007 World Series and trying tolerate another Fox broadcast. I cannot help but wonder why anyone at Fox would think it to be a
Round Corners on Images
Here is one more vote in favor of the concept that you can truly find anything on the web… Today I was looking for a way to easily round the corners on some images to give a website a bit
Getting Music into iTunes
I ran across a Boston Herald article about a service for artists sending music to iTunes. The service is called TuneCore. The folks at TuneCore will host your band’s music files online and make them available customers via iTunes. This
Bank Cards
I went to my bank recently, opened a new account and got a new a Debit Card from the bank. While I was at the bank, I mentioned to the Customer Service person that this was the third debit card
Calling Information
Yesterday I attempted to use the Google 411 service (1-800-GOOG-411) for the first time. After dialing the number, the Google automated operator asked for city and state, I said “Hanson, Massachusetts”. The automated operator then repeated the city and state
