For those of you who like to keep a constant eye on your investment portfolio and use Firefox as your browser, take a look at the StockTicker extension.
This extension is pretty simple to use. You just add the symbols and/or indexes in you want to monitor and set both a refresh and rotation (how often [...]

There are numerous choices in operating system to run on your computer. Most use Windows. Others use Linux. Others (like myself) use a Mac. However, one thing is abundantly clear: our computing lives are moving online.
Speaking for myself, it is my web browser (Firefox) which is always open. It is the first program I start [...]

Recently, both myself and a lot of users at work here have received a barrage of “undeliverable” email messages. I’m not talking about a few here, but hundreds a week.
Naturally, the first thing I thought is our mail server has been compromised. Long story short, that was not the case. Next, I thought it was [...]

I have long thought that Google desperately needs to add an in-house todo list to their Gmail Apps line-up. They likely will before too long. And my wish list for a Google todo app is as follows:

Ability to integrate right into the Gmail interface (ala Outlook)
Nested tasks
Ability to turn an email into a task [...]

According to a story on ComputerWorld, market share of Apple’s Safari web browser as well as usage of Mozilla Firefox both dropped in the last month. Internet Explorer market share actually gained.
Market share for Safari dropped from 5.8% to 5.5%. Firefox usage went from 17.8% to 17%. Internet Explorer usage went from 74.8% to 76%.
I’m [...]

If you enjoy watching TV on your computer and are looking for some extra content, take a look at JLC’s Internet TV. From their website:
JLC’s Internet TV is a FREE program for watching and browsing thousands of TV channels freely available on the internet. It’s probably the biggest and most up to date database of [...]

For web developers and those of you who prefer Internet Explorer as your web browser, you might want to give a look at the latest and greatest version 8.
Perhaps the biggest change in IE8 is the move to being more “standards compliant”. All the old quirks which IE supported will still be available, but users [...]

I am a professional blogger. This means I am pretty tuned into the Internet and what’s happening. Social media and the whole Web 2.0 phenomenon are second nature to me. It is the same for other bloggers. But, those of us who are familiar with all this stuff make up a small percentage of the [...]

Some of us net-junkies have really come to appreciate the concept of the RSS feed/reader, and what isn’t to like about it? It can keep us updated on just about everything we want, is generally super easy to use, and it can all be done for free. However, not everybody needs, or even wants, anything [...]

If you use an instant messaging program, odds are you have it automatically log in using your remembered user name and password. This is a very handy feature, but allows you to easily forget your password since you never have to enter it. If this is the case and you want to “recover” your password, [...]

One thing we can all do to help cut down on paper waste is to sign up for “eBilling” from companies which offer this. Not only does this have the immediate impact of less paper waste, but it also saves the sending company both time, error and money (which the hopeless optimist in me believes [...]

It sounds like something straight out of Hollywood. A horde of merciless souls invading our world and wreaking havoc where ever they go. They are everywhere, and they are seemingly unstoppable. As far-fetched as this may sound, in a way, it is true.
Zombie BotNets are real, are everywhere and pose a real [...]

Here is a news item I saw today which all people who currently have hosting at Network Solutions should know: used subdomains of your domain are sent to a Network Solutions advertising page. The article explains everything you need to know:
Earlier this week, a man named Win Betteridge told TechCrunch that Network Solutions pulled this [...]

(For those unfamiliar with the term pwned: a definition)
Make no mistake, Microsoft is a business first before anything else; a very aggressive one. In no uncertain terms they’ve basically said “Yahoo, we tried to play nice, but like it or not you’re going under our flag. Prepare to be boarded. Yours truly, -Steve B.”
The deadline [...]

If you like to make use of TinyURL’s and Firefox is your browser of choice, then you need to take a look at the TinyURL Creator extension.
The usage is pretty straight-forward. Your URL is taken as input and then passes this along to TinyURL to give you the same thing you would get from TinyURL’s [...]

Last week, I wrote about free fonts to enhance a presentation, so today’s tip regarding free clip art from Open Clip Art can help as well.
Open Clip Art, as the name suggests, is a the open source version of clip art. The license agreement basically allows you to use the images (royalty free) for any [...]

Ever heard of Twitter? If you’re a blogger or somebody in tune with social media, you probably have. If you’re one of PCMech’s computer-focused readers, then your answer probably lies somewhere between “No” and “Yeah, but it sounds stupid as hell”.
Granted, Twitter will probably seem like a colossal waste of time to most users of [...]

While there are a myriad number of digital photo hosting sites out there (and you probably can’t go wrong with any of them), one you might want to take a look at is Adobe Photoshop Express.
Photoshop Express offers what you would expect from an online photo host such as album creation, sharing and a massive [...]

Pandora.com is quite a nice web application. If you’re not familiar with Internet Radio, it’s a way to stream music to your computer according to may want to listen to, without having to create mixes of music on your own. Most of the time, there’s no audio advertising, which [...]

We’re all users of the Internet. We pay bills online. We have our identity out there online. We also have credit cards - usually several of them. All of this adds up into one thing…
Your identity is digital. It is portable. And it is in other people’s hands.
And this means it is a matter of [...]