For those of you out there who play fantasy sports (myself included), a browser plugin you definitely need to check out is Pickemfirst. Pickemfirst aggregates the latest news and stats from Rotowire, Twitter, Fantasy Sharks, Fantasy SP and many expert bloggers. Pickemfirst delivers them directly to you whenever and wherever you need them. In a nutshell, this...

The driverless car is one super-cool-nifty example of tech. Bear in mind I’m talking about cars that are not on rail. Most of us have gone for a ride on a driverless rail car at least a handful of times. For example, many airports do have driverless train systems, a.k.a. monorail, to get from one side of the airport to the other. The driverless car is...

Radio Shack has been selling electronics for a long time and for quite a while had a reputation as one of the “go to” places for computers. If you want to relive these days or simply see how far we have come over the past 70 years, take a look at the Radio Shack catalogs from 1939-2005. We certainly have come a long way since the days of the ever...

Art is obviously subjective and open to interpretation, however if you want the absolute fastest (other than creating a free 30-second video from Animoto) way to create an artistic or at least art-like video, you only need three things:CreativeCommons Windows Movie Maker YouTube with AudioSwapHere’s how it’s done and you will be amazed at the...

A disturbing trend among popular freeware applications seems to be the inclusion of browser toolbar and/or other garbage options as part of the installation wizard. One rather lengthy message post has an updated list of offending programs which they have titled the “Installers Hall of Shame“. As a developer I can certainly appreciate the hard work it...

The different between junk (as in spam) and somewhat-junk are the emails you get that are legitimate that you may consider wasteful. Here are a few examples of somewhat-junk mail:Confirmation of email address message when you sign up for a new web service Cancellation notice when you discontinue a web service “You’ve got money!” emails from...

When it comes to graphics editors, there are loads of options but typically many of the free ones are either online only or designed for Windows. Mac users wanting a free (and open source) image editor should check out Seashore: Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for...

The only reason anybody would actually want to use Windows 95 these days is for one thing: Games. There are tons of old MS-DOS games out there (many of which are found at www.dosgames.com), and the way to run those games best are in their native environment. While it’s true you could run DOSbox, it’s just not the same. Furthermore in DOSbox you...

In tech circles the big thing right now is mobile, mobile and more mobile for all smartphone platforms – and this includes the introduction of advertisements with the most-known being Apples “iAd” platform. (iAd by the way is the most ridiculous title for Apple’s advertising platform because you as the consumer are not advertising...

If you view a lot of pictures online and have wanted to make the preview images larger (or smaller), then a Firefox add-on you might be interested in is the aptly named Image Zoom. From the author’s description: Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context...

Internet Explorer 8 features a very useful function which allows you to view the time an add-on takes to load. To view this information, go to the Tools > Manage Add-Ons menu option and then scroll over to view the Load Time column. If you are having problems with IE8 or new tabs being slow to open, you can use this information to figure out who the culprit...

Skype over the years has proven itself to be faithful reliable service. Computer-to-Computer “calls” have always been free, but you have to pay in order to connect to regular phone numbers – although it should be said their rates have always been very competitive and a good deal for the money. According to Skype’s blog, they currently...

Firefox 3.6.4 was released yesterday, and if you’re a user of that browser, this is a significant update because: Firefox 3.6.4 provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. What this means is that if Flash, QuickTime...

If you have wanted to give Google Voice a try and have been unable to get an invite, you will be happen to know that the service is now available for everyone. If you are unfamiliar with Google Voice, the idea is simply you have a single number people call which can ring to any device. You are not tethered to a single device in the event you, for example, change...

One of the more annoying aspects of the internet is that it’s tough to check web sites to see if the username you want is taken unless you go to each web site individually, right? Wrong. There is CheckUserNames; this site will check the username you want on 160 different web sites. Absolutely no registration is required to use CheckUserNames. All you have...

While publishing on the internet is no doubt the future, magazines remain a great way to keep you informed on topics of interest. There is a magazine for virtually everything out there so if you want to catch up on some of their content, check out Maggwire. Maggwire is a free service which publishes articles from many popular magazine titles. There are loads of...

Company logos are something we always see but don’t pay much attention to, however you know a logo works when upon seeing it you instantly know what the company is and what they make. Most tech companies do not change their logos often because it costs serious dollars to rebrand the entire product line. When they do change, it usually signifies a...

Mouse? We don’t need no steenkin’ mouse! That’s what CLI jockeys, as in the geeks that do everything from a terminal prompt, would say. They do anything and everything from the command prompt because GUIs are for squares, and you always can get things done faster from the CLI. Script this, script that, script everything. Well, now you can...

As a heavy user of virtual machines and with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 being my tool of choice, I work with VHD files quite a bit. As a result, often times I need to access a file I have stored on a virtual machine which means I have to boot up the VM to access the file. Thanks to 7-Zip, there is now a much easier way. The “beta” release of 7-Zip (at...

A dingbat when referenced to fonts is a symbol for decorative purposes only, i.e. an ornament. In the Windows environment, most people first encountered the use of dingbats with the Wingdings font, which at the time of this writing is 20 years old. Yes, that does mean it’s been around and in use since Windows 3.1. Today you don’t have to use...