You may know that today is Earth Day. As someone who is personally a big believer and participant in reducing the footprint we have on our planet I feel obligated to post something on this subject. So I am reaching out to our readers to ask that tonight, if you don’t already, turn off your computer when you are done using it. It is a myth that turning your...

For those of you into MMO’s and/or strategy games, you may want to take a look at the new offering from EA: Lord of Ultima. Lord of Ultima is an online strategy game where you build your own unique city and play with thousands of other players. Join now and rule a mighty empire which you can access from wherever and whenever you want. All you need to enter...

I am continually amazed by the power of “swiss army knife” command line tools which do lots of functions. Among the best I have found is Nirsoft’s NirCmd. I had a request the other day to convert a large amount of images (approximately 1,000) to PNG format. These images were collections from different sources and were in a mixture of GIF, JPG...

For those of you who remember and enjoyed the simple (but addictive) game Lemmings, a game you should give a look to is Pingus. If you haven’t played Lemmings, the concept is simple: The player takes command in the game of a bunch of small animals and has to guide them around in levels. Since the animals walk on their own, the player can only influence...

Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service?  Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress. These are the opening lines from a Library of Congress Blog post. We have all heard stories of how people doing not so smart things and sharing them with the world have had repercussions,...

Many people like to use mouse gestures as shortcuts for performing common browser tasks such as the back or refresh functions. So for those of you who want to shortcut your URL keystrokes, check out the Firefox add-on URL Alias. Using this add-on, you can provide a few keystrokes as a way to ‘fill in the blanks’ on a template URL. Their download page...

A common tool that network and system admins make use of is the “ping” command which is a very simple and effective way to verify a machine is available on the network (firewall rules depending of course). So if you find yourself having to ping multiple machines at once, a very useful tool is Nirsoft’s PingInfoView. PingInfoView is a small...

Unless you record demo/training material often, most likely you do not have a screen recording program. Note that this is different than a simple screenshot program as your actions and audio are captured and then embedded into a video file. If you ever have the need for something like this, then check out ScreenToaster which offers:Register & use it...

Have you ever ordered something from Amazon which totals $23 with the shipping charges tacking on another $5? Since Amazon gives free shipping on orders $25 and over, you are actually better off here ordering an item under the shipping amount and getting the free shipping (plus the extra item). In a recent post I read on Lifehacker, a tool which makes this easy...

For those of you who make use of Skype’s ability to make and receive calls to/from any phone (via your Skype Online Number), a feature which had been missing for far too long is now available: caller ID. Previously, whenever you would call from your Skype number, a random phone number would appear on the recipients caller ID instead of your Skype Online...