Periodically I get asked the question, “So, what are you running?”, in relation to my computer box, its OS, the apps I use, the hardware I use and so on. Before I list off my stuff, Dave uses a Mac Pro quad-core with I believe 9GB of RAM. His monitors are dual Dell 24-inchers and an older third one that I can’t remember the make/model of at the...

My favorite mapping product on the internet is Google Maps. I use if often and said honestly, nobody else comes close in speed and ease of use. Live Maps comes close but still doesn’t cut the mustard, so to speak. Yahoo! Maps puts very annoying animated advertisements in their mapping product and MapQuest is simply old and clunky to use – not to...

The search engine Google has a ton of different operators you can use to find stuff faster and easier. I will say up front that only the very few have all of them committed to memory (and if you do, you use Google way too much). No, you don’t have to know all of them. However there are a few you can commit to memory that will help you out quite a...