Dan @ July 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The following is the text of a little rant that was sent to Tech Support at CableOne (name included to humiliate and humble the guilty), the cable ISP in my area. Any area where information has been modified or deleted to protect the identity of the client is enclosed in brackets [].
Dan @ July 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Multiple monitor arrays for computers can be a great advantage for power users.
If, say, you are in college and working on your doctoral thesis, more and more of the reference material that you may need for citations and research are available online. You have a choice, you can either flip back and forth between [...]
Dan @ July 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Microsoft Bob: An operating system overlay that lives in infamy.
Microsoft Bob was Microsoft’s ill-fated attempt to make computers easier to use. Debuting in 1995, Bob quickly became the most hated-program in Microsoft history.
It failed miserably.
You would be hard pressed to find many references to it on the Web, especially on Microsoft’s own site. Strangely enough, [...]
Dan @ July 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Mozilla has just updated their Firefox 3 browser to v 3.0.1. This was a security update.
But before you start thinking it’s a bad thing that you switched and go back to IE, take a look at the facts.
Take a look at the Firefox Security page.
Dan @ July 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
One of the premiere tip sites on the Web, makeuseof.com, has some good keyboard shortcut ‘Cheat Sheets’ to view, download or print out. You can view their article here.
If you’re a coder there are quite a few cheat sheets for Java, PHP, Python and the like at The Quick Reference Site. They even have complete [...]
Dan @ July 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Netflix has done it again! They’ve brought the future home!
Watching movies & TV episodes instantly on your PC from the Netflix website is included in all plans. Choose from a separate, smaller library of over 10,000 movies & TV episodes. With most membership plans you can watch as many movies as you want from this [...]
Dan @ July 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Okay, I’m done being angry (and slightly depressed) over the removal of all of the content I generated over 2 or 3 years of posts to this blog. Well, mostly anyway.
I will be going through the database (you didn’t think I just deleted it did you?) and pulling a few of the more useful pieces [...]
