As I am preparing to leave for vacation I am realizing just how powerful one website has become in my life.  I had become very stressed out over the staggering amounts of tasks I had to complete each day.  Using the traditional “todo” list was not helping and my todo lists were spanning multiple pages.  I was pointed in the direction of a great ( Read more... )

I’ve always loved Firefox however in recent months I’ve cast this cute little animal into the refuge pile in /Applications and given its space in the warmth of my dock to Apple’s Safari 4 browser.  Firefox had developed a very naughty habit of eating all of my poor laptops free memory and CPU so when Apple came out with Safari 4 I decided to give ( Read more... )

So today I was diving into my /Applications folder (For you Windows users that’s c:\Program Files\) looking for programs installed I no longer need, use, or particularly want.  Quite a few found their way to the trash can as I’ve really been trying to trim down my program usage to the bare minimum and consolidating a lot into single applications as ( Read more... )

The World Wide Web started out as a purely text based medium for the exchange of knowledge by mainly government entities and Academia.  I don’t think anybody saw the WWW at it’s inception as being the living and breathing pulse of the internet that it has become.  I couldn’t imagine the framers of the first revision of HTML having imagined the ( Read more... )

Twitter is,

a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. (Wikipedia)

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So I have my lovely Mac Mini back from Apple after having the hard drive replaced and it is now happily living next to our 42″ HDTV and ready to begin its life as our media server.  The delay hasn’t been on the machines side, but more on my failings.  I have yet to spend the time, do the research and learn the terminology and technology to know ( Read more... )

I’ve been on the internet for as long as I can remember.  My first web browser didn’t know what a graphic was, the computer had no mouse and the connection speed was slower than my iPhone with 1 bar of service.  Fast forward some 15+ years and the internet has become a major hobby of mine as well as my source for 99% of the news and information I ( Read more... )

Kate gave me a wonderful gift on our anniversary trip to the city.  While we were at dinner we were discussing the iPhone and how much I like it and can’t wait to get one.  We spoke about it for a little while and then she told me that we should just go to the Chelsea Apple Store again and pick one up.  It would be a fun thing to do while in the ( Read more... )

It’s no secret that I have below average eye sight.  There are things people with bad eye sight do to get by in life.  I enjoy hard cover books rather than paperbacks because the font is larger, I pay more money for good seats to see a show, and I always increase the default font size on my computer to make things easier to read.  This has never ( Read more... )

As a long time Tivo owner I’ve grown very accustomed to the luxury of watching TV on my schedule and not that of the television networks.  When the wife and I have a free block of time and want to watch one of the few television programs we enjoy together, or watch a show alone quickly to get back to spending time together the DVR is a great asset ( Read more... )