One thing I have been pleasantly surprised with lately when the need to contact support for one thing or another comes up, is the usefulness of the “live chat” with a support rep. I have used both Dell and our business ISP’s several times and been able to quickly resolve my issues. The wait time is usually only a few minutes and you don’t...

Gmail users utilizing the web interface who would like to give their interface a new look each day should play around with the Themes available in the settings. While this is not a new feature of Gmail, applying a theme other than one of the simple “color only” ones usually changes quite regularly. For example, I am currently using the Planets theme...

Yesterday I wrote about an new Sysinternal’s tool, so it is only fitting that today I write about a new tool released by Nirsoft, RouterPassView: Most modern routers allow you to backup the configuration of the router into a file, and then restore the configuration from the file when it’s needed. The backup file of the router usually contains...

It is no secret that I absolute love the Windows Sysinternals tools which give you great insight into the operating system. This week another tool was added to the suite which breaks down physical RAM usage, RAMMap: Have you ever wondered exactly how Windows is assigning physical memory, how much file data is cached in RAM, or how much RAM is used by the kernel...

I have written about signatures for both email and forums several times over the years, but today I would like to leave this post a little open ended and get some reader comments. My thoughts on signatures (for business communication) are they should essentially be a shortcut for people to get in touch with you. Only relevant contact information about yourself...

The popular game, Portal, has been made available via a free download for a limited time (May 24). Since I have never personally played it, I am getting the description of the game from Wikipedia’s page: The game consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player’s character and simple objects using the Aperture...

The title of this tip is taken from a post which addresses this very question. The data the author uses is from this Google post. The numbers are pretty eye opening when you view the total aggregates and just illustrates that everything we do has some footprint. While running a search is a mere drop in the ocean, the flip side is the ocean is full because there...

A while ago I wrote about VirusTotal which is an online on-demand scanner which checks files against lots of different scanning engines. This free service offers several ways to scan a file on-demand:Upload via a webpage Email as an attachment Use their Send To toolI am not exactly sure when the Send To tool was made available, but this definitely makes the...

We have probably all watched movies where technology is depicted as either flying mathematical signs (i.e. Hackers) or security systems are easily bypassed by smashing either a computer or electronic lock keypad. So for your reading enjoyment you may find this article titled “Top 10 biggest tech flaws in films” enjoyable. Such films on the list...

If you are looking for a little fun in an otherwise boring day, instead of “aimlessly” wondering the web, why not blow it up? Using the unique Firefox add-on, Destroy the Web (see note below), you can do just that. Destroy the Web is a game add-on for Firefox, built specifically to take advantage of the new features introduced in Firefox 3.5. A first...