In this week’s Inside The Insider, I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week.How to Land A Job In An Online World 3 Ways To Find Stuff Faster When Using Online Maps The Modern Guide to Securely Destroying Old Documents How to find out...

To many, the idea that one could be addicted to Twitter seems…. outlandish. However, for some, it is the real deal. I think Twitter has a lot of benefits, but it also seems to have some downsides. For example:The 140-character limitation would encourage poorly developed thoughts. The firehose of information would develop a hardcore need for that level of...

In this week’s Inside The Insider, I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week.Can the iPad 3 Replace A Laptop? Resource to control WHEN email is sent using Gmail 5 Ways To Keep Your Humanity In An Otherwise Connected World A great option...

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Apple announced the iPad 3 – or as they’re calling it, the “new iPad” – on Wednesday. The summary is that it has a retina display, 4G support, and some more graphics horsepower (which it would need in order to pump all those pixels). Now, like a lot of geeks, I was paying attention to things as...

In this week’s Inside The Insider, I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week. And there were a LOT of people who signed up last week.Cutting The Cord: Getting rid of cable TV and still having access to your favorite shows. Services and...

In this week’s Inside The Insider, I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week.Creative Uses For Dropbox, some non-obvious ways to use the Dropbox service. Getting a virtual desktop… in the cloud. Minimizing the annoyance of...

In this week’s Inside The Insider, I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week.How to get started using Evernote (a lot of people are confused how to integrate it into their lives. We’ll help.) Fixing Java on your Computer A resource...

Computer problems messed with me on the laptop, so this week I took to my iPhone to record this week’s “Inside The Insider”. I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week.Thanks to everybody. And, if you’re not yet an...

Big changes are afoot around here. And, if you’re on our mailing list, you probably already know that. I’m about to send out The Insider, Issue #2 to members. In this video, I tell you what’s inside this issue, and I send out a “thank you” to the 44 people who signed up in the last week.Thanks to everybody. And, if you’re...

Today (Jan 18th) is a large-scale protest day to SOPA/PIPA. No doubt, you’ve heard all about it. Many large websites are going black today in protest of the bill, including Wikipedia, WordPress and Google (in the form of a censored logo). If I had more time available, I might have set things up to black out DavidRisley.com and PCMech.com. But, I...

External hard drives are great. As an iMac user (yeah yeah, whatever )… I make use of external hard drives for backup purposes and redundancy. The thing is, they take up space. And then there’s a wire on your desk. If you’re trying to get rid of desktop clutter, then a good option is to put some of your computer add-ons (like external hard...

Over the last couple of weeks, PCMech has had a new sponsor: Reimage. We’re happy to be working with Reimage – especially because this software is truly unique and actually does what it says it will do.Here’s what Reimage will do for you… The scan (which you can do for free) gives the user an evaluation of the current state of...

Louis CK is a pretty well-known comedian. And honestly, one of my favorites. And he’s been generating some online news lately because of his sale of Live at the Beacon Theater. He produced it himself and took the sale directly to the Internet for $5/pop. And, as he said: No DRM, no regional restrictions, no crap. You can download this file, play it as...

I don’t think it is much of a secret that Mozilla (the company behind Firefox) depends on Google to a very large degree for its own existance. Google pays Mozilla a big (yet, undisclosed) sum of money to keep Google as the default search engine in the Firefox browser. Without that revenue, Mozilla probably wouldn’t be here today. In 2011, Google...

Digital SLR cameras take awesome photos. We all know that. However, any of them built within the last couple years or so usually also include the ability to record videos. Due to the optics of a DSLR, the video quality is AMAZING. They really blow away traditional video cameras in a lot of ways. The newer, more expensive DSLRs come with a lot more bells and...