Category «Recommended Web Sites»

The top ten peeves of a support tech

If you’ve spent even a little time in the tech support biz, you’re bound to have a list of special aggravations that drive you crazy on a semi-regular basis. Like users who deny all responsibility for the ‘mysterious’ appearance of unsupported software on their machines. Or the executive who insists on telling you what’s causing …

Microsoft MVPs

I can’t believe I haven’t recommended this site before… This is your jumping off point to a number of interesting offerings being provided for you by a few folks associated with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program. Plan to check this page every so often as new subwebs are bound to show up from …

Tombstone Generator

Kind of a weird idea for a site (and an even weirder domain name), but for some reason you may want to create a tombstone using the Tombstone Generator. Most people would do this for “fun”, but I suppose you could use it for real if you wanted to test out something for a departed …

ProcessLibrary.com: Free Process Information

In the recesses of your computer, 20-30 invisible processes run silently in the background. Some hog system resources, turning your PC into a sluggish computer. Worse yet, other useless processes harbour spyware and Trojans – violating your privacy and giving hackers free reign on your computer. ProcessLibrary.com is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants …

Google Sightseeing

Why bother seeing the world for real? I first saw this mentioned on Ed Bott’s blog. The sight is very neat. Using the Google Keyhole data, the blogger is showing interesting shots of earth (army testing grounds, odd colours, etc.). Check it out at http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/

Welcome to Gmail

GMail has increased mailbox storage limits to 2GB today. April Fools joke? It does not appear to be. Logging into my Gmail account several times today, the available space has been steadily increasing. And the GMail login page currently shows a counter on how big the mailboxes are limited to. Watch it grow to 2 …

TimeandDate.com

We’ve mentioned this before, but subscriber and co-worker Louise passed it along again. In particular, she thought the calendar section was interesting. You can pull up yearly calendars for any country, show local holidays, show moon phases, or not show anything. Check it out at http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/