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I’m a few days late on this one, but Download Squad had a posting with links to several online calendar resources: With 2008 fast approaching, if you’re needing a printed calendar in time for the new year, your opportunities to grab one are fast running out. Thankfully CreativeTechs have posted three rather nifty calendars and …
I originally heard about this on the Kim Komando radio show in early December. Price Protectr is a service that monitors prices on items that you’ve purchased to help you get the difference back from the store you purchased it at: There are lots of stores out there that offer price protection policies — when …
In year’s past, I’ve seen lots of postings and links to various year-end lists. For some reason this year I haven’t seen so many. In fact, the only highly publicized one I’ve seen is the Google Zeitgeist 2007. They have a section of their site where they show stats throughout the year, but then they …
As the title indicates, this is a list from the New York Times of 1001 appetizers you can make in 20 minutes or less: You want good food at a holiday cocktail party and you want to impress people? You don’t want a caterer, you refuse to heat up frozen food, and you want to …
This isn’t a tip that is going to help you with your computer. However, it is a great example of how the Internet brings us material like this that we never would have seen before. I’m a big sports fan (I don’t play much, but follow several sports), and love baseball (don’t get me started …
mental_floss magazine (the punctuation and capitalization are correct) is a trivia sort-of magazine. A recent blog posting had some links to some fun “quizes” where you can do things like find out if your co-worker is crazy, and find out which office moron are you?
Wired recently had a posting with links to some fun sites that you can visit this holiday season: Celebrity Gingerbread: Law and Order Edition – celebrity gingerbread people Elf Yourself – put your picture on an elf head and dance around Simon Sez Santa – Santa does what you tell him to do YouTube Holiday …
I heard about this Maximum PC article from TechRebublic: Sure, we love iPods, TiVo, and fancy-schmancy digital cameras, just like everyone else. But let’s talk about advances that make a difference where it really counts: in the PC. While myriad best-of lists have ranked the greatest gadgets, software products, and videogames ever made, here we …
Download Squad recently had a great posting about 3rd-party “Add/Remove Programs” replacements. Of course every version of Windows has an applet in the Control Panel where you can remove programs. Whether it is a problem with Windows, or the install/uninstall programs, there is often bits left behind. This Download Squad posting highlights several programs (Revo …
One of the biggest concerns for parents is what their children are doing on the Internet. Who is contacting them? Who are they chatting with? How do they interact with strangers? Kim Komando talks about this regularly. I came across a site today where you can listen to podcast about Internet safety called Internet Safety …