Have you ever sent and email and then realized a second later that you forgot an attachment or didn’t include some information? We all have. To help with this problem, Gmail has introduced a new add-in from their Labs section appropriately named ‘Undo Send’: Oops, hit “Send” too soon? Give yourself a grace period of a few seconds to...

When one thinks of a hard drive, style doesn’t usually come to mind. That’s because most people don’t care about that sort of thing. However when the style is actually functional, that’s a different story and is desirable. Enter the My Passport portable hard drive from Western Digital. This is a 500GB portable drive that connects via USB...

One would assume that clearing all the favicon.ico files out of Firefox 3 would be a simple task. It isn’t. Clearing your cache doesn’t work because the icons aren’t stored there. Rather it’s in a SQLite database called places.sqlite in your Firefox profile directory. There are three ways to clear all favicons. First method: Create a new...

If you have done any web development, you are probably very aware of the ‘quirks’ different browsers have and ultimately have to try to make your site work with them as best you can. Now that Internet Explorer 8 has been released, a site you might find useful is this post titled “Site Compatibility and IE8“. While not a comprehensive...

For most of us, Excel is one of those programs where you use 10% of the functionality and only even know of 50% of it. Regardless of whether or not you fall into this category, an brief article you might want to take a look at is “Hidden gems in Excel 2007“. This points out and walks you through 3 functions which most of us would probably find very...

Have you ever been reading a website which references something you would like more information on, but don’t want to have to navigate to another site? If so, just look it up directly in a pop-up window using Cleeki. With Cleeki your search experience can be as simple as one click on a keyword you would like to query. You leave the rest to Cleeki, which...

I, like a lot of you out there, use online banking. If I remember correctly I first started using it in 2003 or 2004. The NetTeller system was what my bank at the time was using. Was it free? Ha! No. I had to pay a fee just to apply for it back then. The bank I was using weaseled $15 out of me even though I was doing them a favor just by using it. Thankfully all...

For a while now I’ve been using the Zune Windows XP theme (download). That one is by Microsoft and a complete theme compared to Royale which is incomplete (there are "rough" spots here and there). I like the "Classic" XP theme but it’s a bit too bland. However there is an alternative called HmmXP. It is not by Microsoft and...

Microsoft released Windows Internet Explorer 8 today at 12 noon EST. I downloaded, checked it out and here’s what I have to report. First I’ll say that I’m not going to rehash what’s going to be on hundreds of other blogs out there. I’m only going to concentrate of the nitty-gritty of what matters to most people in...

Whenever you install Microsoft Office, you may notice a startup item is added: the Office Startup Assistant. If you have ever wondered what this does, take a look at this Microsoft KB article: The Osa.exe file does the following:Initializes automation. Initializes some of the common fonts installed by Office. Handles certain commands (New Office Document, Open...

Later on today I will be downloading the new official release Internet Explorer 8 web browser (around noon-ish EST is when it will be available on Microsoft’s site) and look forward to putting it thru its paces. However I’ve also downloaded another browser that hearkens back to the way Netscape used to be, Seamonkey. Yeah, Netscape? Remember that?...

Power users and those interested in all around “how my memory is being used” information might find the new VMMap tool from Sysinternals interesting. VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility. It shows a breakdown of a process’s committed virtual memory types as well as the amount of physical memory (working set) assigned...

Software bloat is unfortunately all too common in many of the apps that we use, with two of the biggest offenders being email clients and instant messaging programs. While it’s true you could use web-enabled versions of these apps, sometimes this is just as bad because it causes the browser (no matter which you use) to use a lot of memory in short...

With Ubuntu it is important (as it is in XP) to know certain network command functions. When most people have a problem with their router, cablemodem or DSL modem, they simply reboot the computer to renew the IP address. You do not have to do this. Instead you can simply shut down the network interface and restart it. ifconfig ifconfig is the command used in...

The most noticeable change in Office 2007 from the previous releases of Office is without a doubt the use of the command ribbon instead of traditional menus. This change does take some getting used to which can lead to a bit of frustration finding the command you need. To remedy this, bring back the classic/traditional menu system using the freeware tool,...

As I begin writing this post, I am watching the live coverage of the Apple press conference where they are talking about what is coming with Iphone 3.0. First of all, why does this matter on a computer site? Simple. The Iphone IS a computer. It is so much more than a phone. Don’t underestimate the impact this one device is having and will have on the future...

The default email client that comes bundled with Ubuntu is Evolution. Make no mistake, this is a really good email client (arguably just as good as Mozilla Thunderbird that also runs under Ubuntu easily). Setting up an IMAP-enabled Gmail account in Evolution is fairly straightforward as long as you know where to enter in the SSL stuff and other odds and ends....

In the beginning (more or less).. ..there was 320×200 resolution with the Commodore 64. Then came MS-DOS and VGA with 640×480 resolution. It was good and there was much rejoicing. Then came Super VGA (800×600). And it was better. And there was more rejoicing. Fast-forward to present. You can now easily acquire LCD monitors with very high native...

When you install certain programs, you may notice that new options are available in your right-click menu on certain files. These options are controlled through Windows Shell Extensions, which are simply registry entries. While some programs give you the ability to control these entries for their respective application, a utility which allows you to modify them...

Somewhere right now on the internet, at least 25,000 people are blogging, video’ing, Twittering, Facebook’ing, MySpace’ing or whatever other-ing something they really shouldn’t about someone in their social circle. Shortly after what they post these people will encounter the wrath of those they posted about (and probably in less than 24...