Reflections on a Late Summer Morning It is with bittersweet countenance that I write this. A pale and fragile veil of autumn lingers creeps in quietly on this late summer morning. Those warm, humid mornings of just a few weeks ago have gone and have been replaced by some mysterious early harbinger of fall – a wisp of… Read More »
Gmail Now Has a New Block Sender Feature Gmail has long had a feature that allows you to mark a message as spam, but this week Google has a announced a new Block Sender feature that you can use to block a sender by email address. Once you block a sender any future emails from that nutjob…OUCH EB!… Read More »
Look Before You Leap Two Tools to Help You Determine If a Web Site is Safe It’s really hard to tell by looking at a web site whether it’s safe or not. And nobody wants to be constrained to visiting only sites they know are safe. Part of the fun of the Web is scouting and finding new… Read More »
Wear the Badger of Privacy We think “Do Not Track” browser features and browser add-ons are pretty much worthless – they assume that everything and everyone is tracking you for evil purposes and thus block everything without regard to what it is, who it is , or if it may be beneficial. Yes, indeed, I tells ya… sometimes… Read More »
Notification Icons Under Your Control Windows 10 is getting very popular – not only because it is free to Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 users (until July 2016) – but because it’s a great operating system. It’s like a modern day Windows XP. Well, maybe not that good, but certainly one of the best Windows ever. One… Read More »
What’s a Chrome Canary? A Chrome Canary is not a hood ornament, nor is it a bird covered in chrome. It’s a (excuse the cool speak) bleeding-edge browser that is for those of you who like to being on, what we used to call the “cutting edge” of technology. Canary is a version of Chrome, my favorite browser,… Read More »