There have been some articles appearing lately about how you should not announce vacations on Facebook, lest you set yourself up for a home burglary. When I first read these, I thought, “no, duh, of course you shouldn’t post that…
My first use of the “Internet” was preparing and submitting payroll through a dialup system when I worked for the state. It was somewhere around 1985 and I had to wonder how “great” this thing was going to be when…
Every month when I pay the family’s cell phone bill, I cringe. Then I wonder, am I getting the best deal? There’s a great way to find out. The Citizens Utility Board, an Illinois agency, has a great little tool…
How many of us multi-task? How many of us multi-task to the point of distraction? I’m not talking about doing two or three things at once, but excessive multi-tasking. The kind that ends up with poor quality output on every…
Last time I upgraded Yahoo Instant Messenger (I actually use the program both personally and professionally), I accidentally let Yahoo Toolbar install. I never bothered to remove it, just left it in a disabled state and un-checked in the toolbar…
Word (yes, pun intended) comes today that a Federal District Court judge has barred the sale of Microsoft Word until further notice. The ruling stems from a patent infringement lawsuit brought byI4i, a software company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. …
I have to give it to Google; they are 99% of the time ahead of the game. They are bringing to bear things that other companies have only dreamed about. And when they get push-back, they give as good as…