Over the past month or so, I have covered several different software packages for managing your personal and/or small business finances, so today I will provide some a resource to perhaps the most popular tool of all, Excel.
On Microsoft Office Online, you can find lots of Excel Templates for managing budgets. Scrolling through the selections, [...]

I don’t know about you, but when I wake up in the morning to the sound of my phone ringing, I’m not a happy guy. And when the called ID shows some toll free number or an “unavailable”, it is worse. That’s because it is a 95% chance of being a telemarketing call.
It is the [...]

Chances are if you are a reader of this site, you are into computers. Also, chances are that you eventually upgrade your computers and then have to figure out what to do with the old one. Recycling is an option, but have you ever thought about exactly what happens to your hardware after you drop [...]

You’ve heard time and time again from Linux fans that "Linux can do anything Windows can do". Is this true? Yes. However what the Linux fans usually don’t mention is how to do the stuff you do in Windows in Linux.
Bear in mind that "equivalent" in this context is a subjective term, because more often [...]

We all know about Facebook. I have had a profile over there for some time. Only recently, though, have I begun to really use it to all it’s advantages. It is easy to write it off as just an easy way to kill time. However, when you really begin to use Facebook as a [...]

The LA Times reported that because of a small server company in California (McColo) that has been shut off, the amount of spam worldwide has dropped two-thirds.
Yes, it’s incredible to think that around 66% of spam you most likely see in your inbox or Spam/Junk folder came from there.
Symantec stated however that spam will jump [...]

If you have browsed the PCMech Forums, you probably see the occasional HijackThis log uploaded to a post. Another program similar to this which you might want to take a look at is Runscanner.
This freeware program is very similar to what HijackThis offers:
RunScanner is a freeware windows system utility which scans your system for all [...]

In the United States we don’t necessarily have a problem (yet) with what’s known as "capped bandwidth" (i.e. your ISP puts a usage limit on how much data you can transfer per month), but for other places it’s a big deal because once you tap the limit, your ISP slows you down to snail-crawl speeds [...]

There’s a lot of people that use Yahoo! and their services within, but most people never heard of Yahoo! Live.
Yahoo! Live is (and soon to be was) Yahoo!’s version of live broadcasting but it never really took off with the internet masses. As such it was forgotten quickly.
I tried it once and the service [...]

As most of my readers have probably realized, more and more of our daily computer experience has been moving onto the Internet. An application which runs on the Internet (in your web browser) is commonly referred to as a “cloud application”.
Some people dispute this term. Some say that cloud computing isn’t really anything new; that [...]

Most of you have probably heard the term ‘domain squatter’ which is someone who registers a domain with the sole intent of selling to someone else who has a legitimate need for it (at a substantially increased price). Well, domain names are not the only thing being targeted by squatters as social networking names are [...]