I came across this site today that is essentially a social networking site that allows people to leave anonymous messages for you. The assertion is that friends may not say exactly what they think if you know who’s saying it. It’s called AY.com (for “Anonymous You”). I don’t think I really like the idea for [...]
Have you noticed that teens these days are for all practical purposes using a different language when typing? It’s a kind of shorthand or text-speak. There could be many reasons for this, a few being: Shorter and therefor quicker and easier to type on a phone Quicker and easier to read Parents and other adults [...]
As ya’ll well know, seeing as though I told you in an earlier post, I was on the lookout for a dog. Thanks to the Internet and PetFinder more specifically I’ve found a dog that I’ve fallen in love with. As a side note, I find it interesting how many people seem to be turning [...]
As I was researching for another article (How To Automatically Insert Photo Captions When You Upload To Facebook) I came across a really cool application that makes uploading photos and videos to Facebook really easy. It’s called Bloom (their Facebook presence) and I think you’ll like it. As I said before, Bloom makes uploading photos [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
