I recently upgraded to a Motorola Q Smartphone and ran into an interesting problem. I was trying to call a company who’s toll free number was spelled out in the form of a word (to allegedly help me remember it). As it turned out, the knowing the word did not help.
Encryption and Thumb Drives
Recently my wife ran into a situation where she had misplaced her new thumb drive (thankfully, she found it), but it got me to thinking about securing mine. These flash drives are a great way to carry around information, but they are also quite small and obviously, easy to lose.
Final Frontier
At work, I receive the mail from a couple of public email addresses and these addresses have a habit of getting hammered with Spam. As a practical matter, I cannot filter spam on the server level because I need to be able to see what getting flagged as Spam and isolate it into a separate folder in Outlook.
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
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
