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Google, What is all this Crazy Buzz About? A First Glance at Google Buzz

OK, so Google is RIGHT NOW beginning to release Google Buzz, some sort of social network-meet twitter-meet Facebook thing and it seems the Internet and Twitter is all a BUZZ about it.  I’ve nabbed A FEW links from Google Search’s live search stream just to share a bit about what people are saying RIGHT now:

Google’s [...]

My First Attempt at Web-Working

As a personal update, I want to let my readers know that I am going through a bit of change in my life.  Recently I made a change from a full-time employee to being employed part time while filling the rest of my income by web-working.  In this article I would like to talk about [...]

The Dawn of the Digital Pocket Watch – Keeping Time In Today’s Day of Cell Phone Domination

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

The other day someone stopped me to ask me for the time.  I did the funniest thing, something I apparently ALWAYS do when someone asks me what the time is but I never really think about it.  I stopped and checked my cell phone!  In the last ten years my [...]

SPAM on SPAM Sandwhich anyone?

A while back I did a post all about the types of email SPAM out there and how to deal with them.  The funniest thing happened!  Recently I received three separate comments on that particular post that, as it turns out, are SPAM themselves!  Check it out:

How do I know they are SPAM?  You tell [...]

How to choose who to work on your computer

A while back I wrote an article for MakeUseOf.com titled 5 Sites To Learn How To Repair Your Own Computer.  In it I complain about the repair prices of the “big box stores.”  Well, as it turns out I found an interesting video depicting some investigative reporting done on the topic of PC repair.  Check [...]

How do you locate email messages in your inbox?

If you are anything like me, you have tons of email.  If you are a user of one of those web-mail sites like Gmail or Hotmail where you have tons of space, you may not even delete old email messages (with Gmail’s archiving option, why would you need to?).  For instance, in my old Hotmail [...]

Learning from my blogging mistakes

I just read an article about Gmail’s latest outage.  It was the title that caught my eye: “Why you should be glad about Gmail failures.”  As someone who is using Gmail, the title kind of got my proverbial goat.  As it turns out, the article was less about boasting on Gmail’s failures and more about [...]

Firefox Friday – Private Browsing: What good is it?

In its  latest versions, Firefox has begun sporting a new tool called Private Browsing.  It’s really a great tool and it really has more than one use!  Basically when you are in Private Browsing mode, Firefox will not remember the following:

browser history,
search history,
download history,
web form history,
cookies, or
temporary internet files

You’re basically browsing the Internet anonymously.  Its [...]

Delicious versus Google – Which is the better search engine? You be the Judge!

If you are not familiar with it, Delicious.com is what is called a social bookmarking site.  This means that users can save bookmarks on the site, organize them according to topics by using tags, and then share them with others.  The interesting thing about Delicious.com is that as people bookmark and share sites they come [...]

A better way to IM – A Review of Trillian Astra

A Guest Post by Brett Barner of GodlySheep.com and @Godlysheep about Trillian Astra.

Instant Messaging (IM) clients are a dime-a-dozen nowadays. Though IMing seems so ’90s, it is still useful today. The big issue with IM clients is that unless you and all of your friends get together and decide universally what IM service you [...]