While listening to one of my favorite podcasts this week I heard about an attention-grabbing and useful beta site. First, the podcast is, "Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott". You can catch the weekly interesting, funny and informative conversations between the aforementioned Paul and Leo Laporte, at twit.tv. There are about a million other "Leocasts" there…
Thanks for the response to last week’s column about Gmail Aliases. I received a “bunch” of emails regarding that feature. And, “you are welcome” for pointing out that out to you. I also received a lot of questions from some of you folks who are newer to Gmail about how to set up filters. So…
You may be tired of reading about Google Earth, Gmail, Google Calendar, Gmail Call and all other “G” related apps from me. However, when they offer something unique, useful or just plain fun, I feel like I owe it to you to let you know about them. This week I stumbled on one I had…
If you are a Gmail user you will have noticed something new in the last couple of weeks. If you did not notice it you must have popup ads blocked on your browser. Google was pretty persistent in letting you know about it. I am not sure of the exact name of the feature since…
I do not like to write columns that relate to only a small segment of my readers but sometimes it is necessary. Because of email requests these things pop up from time to time. I have received several requests about this over the last couple of months. So today I will explain an online application…
Someone sent me a site with an interestingly appropriate name, but you probably will not believe it. Once you hear about it you may say, "That is really a very intelligent site." Of course, you may also respond, "Ron is really weird!" But either is OK with me…just read on. First, I need to give…
Thanks for the emails I received regarding the last column about “Secure P@55w0rdz“. Most of you commented on the spelling I used in that word. That is somewhat standard usage by geeks. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Apparently it caused a few of you to increase your passwords’ difficultly level which is a good thing. …
Lucy, You’ve Got Some Explaining to Do I have this "pet peeve." I don’t have to deal with it very often, thank goodness, but I did this past week. I needed to contact a company about a software issue. Yeah, boring, but that’s part of what I do. I called their 800 number and guess…
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