Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
The Denver Public Library recently redesigned its main website. The new site is colorful, updated in looks and design, and appears to be an improvement over its old website. Unfortunately, this is another case of beauty only being skin deep. The vendor that the library chose to deliver its new library website, which includes searching … Read more
As a professional freelance writer, I end up using wireless hotspots to work from coffee shops. While, I use a secured network whenever possible, many WiFi hotspots do not have any security enabled because it makes them easier to use. Although it seems like no one would bother, the reality is that wireless access points … Read more
In my never ending quest to eliminate the vast number of resource wasting utilities, files, services, startup programs, and boot-up loaders that software companies insist on foisting onto my PC, I take out Revo Uninstaller from time to time and start removing bloatware wherever I find it. Recently, a new error message started popping up … Read more
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How much system resources does the free AVG anti-virus software use under normal conditions?
A new utility provides RescueTime like functionality and features without sending all your data into cyberspace.
Yea! I have my Windows Live Writer back! I downloaded BlogDesk but haven’t really messed around with it yet. The truth is that I can’t spend too much time on my own blogs and get all of my writing work done at the same time, so learning a new blogging program wasn’t top on my … Read more
Foxmarks is a world class popular plug-in that synchronizes bookmarks between multiple browser installs. It is changing…for the better?
Not too long ago, I complained about Microsoft’s Seaport Enhanced Search Tool which is set to run automatically on startup and keep running all of the time by default. This application provides the dubious function of checking for new updates or configuration files for a search enhancement that no one asked to be installed. Instead, … Read more
I wanted to try Microsoft’s Visual Web Developer Express. Frankly, I think that Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 might be a little bit like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly based for many of my daily website development tasks. Sure, if I’m building a new site from scratch, or doing a major site overhaul, Dreamweaver’s tools … Read more
Sometimes as I go through my day, I stumble across things that seem so OBVIOUS to me that I have trouble understanding why it is even an issue. Today’s version comes courtesy of every single email client I use, which includes most of the big names, and a couple of the small names. Now, every … Read more
Ok, now that I’m running several websites: www.financegourmet.com www.arcticllama.com www.undefeateddaddy.com with more on the way, I need good blogging software. By good I mean I need it to do more than just be a text editor with a publish button. This theme I’m using uses the “custom fields” so ideally the blogging software I find … Read more