This week’s site is about as useless as the come. Yet, being the bored people we are, we found it good enough to be our site of the week because we enjoyed our brief visit there. So this one is just for fun. I bet you’ve spent weeks of your life pondering what kind of punctuation mark you… Read More »
How many of you have heard of Weather.com? How many of you have heard of Accuweather? And intellicast…not many? Weather Underground? No one? Really? Well let me tell you, if you’re a spelunker you’ll love Weather Underground. Do you know the temperature twenty feet beneath your feet? Do you want to? No? Really? You don’t have an inquiring… Read More »
The venerable, old FBI issued its annual holiday safety tips. And they’re pretty good. We’ll give you their tips and then give you a few of ours. It’s very important that you be extra careful during the holiday season. Sometimes, for example, EB gets to draining a few too many holiday bowls and becomes — to put it… Read More »
One of TC’s favorite freeware programs just got better. This former Freeware Pick, deserves another look, if you’re looking for a great free word processor with lots of extras. Oh yes. There are a plethora of free office applications out there. We know all about them. Open Office, SS, Google Docs, and many others. Microsoft Office is facing… Read More »
Do you wish you could keep track of how your Gmail address is being used (i.e., when you sign up for something on the Web)? We featured a tip a while back about using the plus sign to create an alias from your Gmail addresses. The plus-addressing works like this: roger.smith121+paypal or julie.malinowsky+latimes @gmail.com . See? By adding… Read More »
It is the season to be jolly – and the season to be careful. The phishermen and phisherwomen are out in full force plying their trade with vigor. During the holidays, for some reason, people seem to be more vulnerable. You’ll see tons of emails supposedly from UPS, FedEx and DHL with official looking tracking numbers and telling… Read More »