Get Windows Explorer to display Drive Letters First

This is something that bothered me, ever so slightly for a while, but still I wanted to find a “fix” to, so today here it is.  I have successfully tested this with Windows Vista and 7. Here is what your explorer view looks like with the default settings. To display drive-letters first, followed by the…

RSS Feeds

I receive many emails with questions regarding RSS feeds, so it must be time to revisit them.

RSS means (pick one) “RDF Site Summary”, “Rich Site Summary”, or more commonly “Really Simple Syndication”. There may be others out there. I have no idea what the problem is with…

Facebook Email Warning!

If you read the column regularly you will know that I occasionally give you general warnings about viruses, scams, etc.  However, there is one running like crazy right now that I feel I need to talk about.  I interrupted the regularly scheduled column this week to let you know about it. A lot of my…

A Mouse with no Tail!?

My mouse has no tail! No, I do not mean the little rodent variety, but the ones fitting comfortably under your hand that you poke and prod all the time at your computer. One of my readers/listeners, Jenny saw me in a local eatery the other day while I was working on something.  I go…

You Can be a Spy Too!

I wanted to talk about a very interesting free application that I stumbled upon this week and the website where I found it. Everything USB is an interesting site that has…well OK, you guessed it, lots of information about USB devices. USB stands for “universal serial bus” and is the interface (plug) between your computer, most thumb drives/memory sticks and an…