The Top 10 Best Worst Google Features Inventions Of All Time
Not about the best features at all, but rather about how phony title tags direct searchers to less meaningful information, all in the name of SEO.
Social Networking Going Too Far or Business Just Trying Too Hard?
I’ve used Open Table for restaurant reservations for a long time. It is just so much more convenient to peruse around for what restaurant will fit your time and date and type of food rather than calling them one at a time to see if anyone has the ability to accommodate you. As an added … Read more
Top 6 Uses for Google Incognito Windows and Internet Explorer Privacy Mode
When Google released its Chrome browser, there was a lot of focus on two features, the faster JavaScript engine, named V8, and the privacy mode, named Incognito. The latter was the subject of much snickering and finger pointing as the blog-heads promptly nicknamed the feature “porno mode,” suggesting that the only reason for having a … Read more
Top 5 Uses for Google Incognito Windows and Internet Explorer Privacy Mode
When Google released its Chrome browser, there was a lot of focus on two features, the faster JavaScript engine, named V8, and the privacy mode, named Incognito. The latter was the subject of much snickering and finger pointing as the blog-heads promptly nicknamed the feature "porno mode," suggesting that the only reason for having a … Read more
RTwE Means Re-Tweet With Edits
I can’t ever properly Re-Tweet a truly interesting Tweet. That is because truly interesting tweets come from people who care about Tweeting interesting things. That means they don’t necessarily care about chopping their tweet down small enough to be re-Tweetable like those who care more about getting exposure and re-tweets than putting up interesting things … Read more
Get Rid Of My Places Bar In Microsoft Office
Does your computer Initialize Places Bar all of the sudden when you try to open or close Microsoft Office files like Word Documents? It’s your My Places Bar. You just didn’t know you had one. Make it stop.
Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) Download Available Now
Microsoft has released the official (no trojans) version of the Windows 7 Release Candidate on its website. Unlike the Windows 7 beta from earlier this year, there is no rush this time, at least not yet. Microsoft says that the RC will be available until July 2009 and that there is no limit on the … Read more
NetSurveyor Review – Wireless Network Strength and Detection Utility
I recently stumbled upon NetSurveyor while trying to find the more well known NetStumbler utility. NetSurveyor seemed to also do what I was looking for, so I decided to give it a try. NetSurveyor 802.11 Discovery Tool Features As with NetStumbler, the standard usage of NetSurveyor is to scan the airwaves and find all of … Read more
Twitter Quitters Don’t Get It, Or Twitter Stay-ers Just Really Wish They Were Actually Cool
Because I have no intention of registering for an account at ABCNews just to comment on its Twitter story, I’m posting my comment here. Read the story here first. If you insist on skipping reading the original story, the premise that Twitter IS a really great thing and if you don’t think so, its because … Read more
Microsoft and User Interface Usability – A Match Made in Hell?
So, today, I’m poking around my Windows Live account. I’ve had it for a while, but I’ve never really done anything with it. Basically, my entire reason for having it was to use Foldershare and then Windows Live Sync to keep some files and folders synchronized between my desktop computer and my laptop computer. I … Read more
Windows 7.0 Release Candidate Coming – Already Out On Torrents
It looks like Microsoft has every intention of releasing Windows 7.0 in time for the Christmas holiday shopping season this year. While that means December for you and me, it means something closer to September or October for retailers who build and ship their PCs into the channel long before the arrive in the store. … Read more
Twitter – Critical Social Networking App or Next Big Nothing?
The guys over at the Blog Herald have a nice big headline saying that Top Tech Brand’s Don’t Get Twitter. Then, they say nothing, and point to a “study” at Pingdom which notes that 67 of the top tech companies don’t have a “main” Twitter account registered in their name. Shocking! Or is it? Sometimes, … Read more