Online Pet Peeves
One of my pet peeves online is when a site will jump right to the Buy Me option without telling me what I’m even getting. I’ve always thought that would be like walking into a store and the clerk saying, “Hi, can I have your credit card please?” instead of “Hi, can I help you?”
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Amazing Free Online Tools
Preston Gralla, of PC World, has a terrific article featuring 101 free software tools you can use to make your computing time more productive, fun and organized. The list includes System Utilities, Communications and File Sharing, Blogs and News Reading, File Management,Productivity and Office Apps, and Music, Photos, and Video. There is even a section [...]
Picasa Web Albums - A Review
Recently I discovered that I want to jump on the photo sharing bandwagon. We’d been on a trip to visit family and I wanted to send all the photos we’d taken to them. We got a new puppy and I wanted to give my daughter a way to share the adorable puppy shots with her [...]
Free Online News Reader
I just finished reading (OK, skimming) dozens of blogs from one website - my NewsGatorOnline page. I have to share how much I love this service. NewsGator rocks!
It is easy to use. It’s free. And I can keep up with so many more blogs than I could when I tried to read them all by [...]
Learning to Use Software
When I need to learn how to use software I just dive in. Install the program. Toss the manual aside. Fire up the computer and start using it. This method has worked for me since I taught myself Word Perfect for DOS in the 80s. Now I’ve moved up to Adobe CS2 programs and my [...]
Using IE in a FireFox Tab
Last night while reading my latest copy of PCToday (March 2007 issue) I saw an article by Scot Finnie about using Firefox masterfully. He didn’t use those words, but that is the gist of it. I spotted a paragraph that made my day.
It was about how to view websites using Internet Explorer from within [...]
