I have built quite a few computers over the last few years, both for work and personally. There are several options you have to think about. Firstly, do I want an AMD or Intel chip? I still prefer AMD for the value. Also what is the appropriate motherboard and memory? This is really dictated by [...]
As I am sure some of you are starting to do, I have a laptop that is running Windows 7. While I have been running Vista on my home PC for a while, there are some differences with Win7 from that. One of the biggest things is that even though your user account is in [...]
If you want to clean up your WordPress titles, check out this excellent post by Megan McDermott. I finally removed the unnecessary “Blog Archive” that was included in every post’s title on the title bar. Default title format The default wordpress titles look like this: Home page: Blog Name (and that’s it) Category Pages: Blog [...]
Below is a top 10 list of Windows Applications I use daily or weekly. I would like to know some that you recommend. gVim – Graphical Vi. Vi is a great text editor in unix. It has lots of commands to do things quickly. Most people either love it or hate it, but I am [...]
For those of you using mobile phones to access my blog, I have enabled a mobile interface. I am using Alex King’s WordPress Mobile Edition Plugin. Let me know what you think. There should be a link at the bottom if you prefer to see the full version of the site.
With the news that the 2 billionth iPhone app has been downloaded, I thought I would take this time to detail a few apps for Windows Mobile that I highly recommend and use. Please note, I am using these on Windows Mobile 6.1 on a Samsung Omnia (i910, Verizon, touchscreen). Your experience may vary. Hopefully [...]
I found a cool Firefox add-on this morning called Invisible Hand. If you are viewing an item for purchase on a site, it will show you a notification of the price on other sites and how much you can save if you purchase it on the other site. I have used it for a few [...]
There have been a couple new search engines in the news lately. I have used both of them, and I am impressed. The first is Wolfram Alpha. This is certainly not your traditional search engine. It is more of a computational search engine. For instance, you can search for the International Space Station. It will [...]
If you are looking for a small, straightforward Linux distribution – especially for old hardware – check out Puppy Linux. There are several small distributions, but this one seems to be very good. I am using it on an old IBM T22 Thinkpad, which has a 900 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM. The [...]
Okay, so I downloaded Google Chrome beta a few days ago, and I have been trying it out. I have used it almost exclusively, except for the few pages that it gave me problems on (which have been just a few). I have been pretty happy with it. Most of the big changes are behind [...]
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