…Sign up to receive Wireless AMBER Alerts on your cell phone! I’m sure many of you must already know about this one, but I just found out about it tonight…..
For anyone who is not yet familiar with the AMBER Alert System, it’s a “quick response” system developed to get the word out when a [...]

Lately there’s been a lot of noise in the media about what experts are calling “vampire power” - that is, the amount of electrical energy being consumed while our electronics are “on” even when we’re not using them. In some cases, even when they are turned off, but still plugged in. One of [...]

Hot off the presses (as in: I just got an email on this)……TidBits.com is celebrating their 18th anniversary with an incredible sale on all of their eBooks (I own quite a few of them)…..
Read the Announcement
Shop The TidBits eBook Catalog
I’m a long-time subscriber to their regular e-newsletter, which I love. Every issue is packed [...]

Well I had planned to write a post about why I really love Sitepoint, then I get an email from them about a sale they are having until the end of this month on their Kits - buy one, get one free. I already own all the Kits or I’d be warming up [...]

Need some *ahem* protection for your Apple iPod, iPhone, or Keyboard? Then you have to check out iSkin’s Spring Cleaning Sale going on now to the end of April.
I have several of their keyboard skins (for both my PowerMac and PowerBook) - primarily because here in Arizona you just can’t stay ahead of the [...]

Well, the site is anyway. In honor of CSS Naked Day (April 9th), I’ve removed the styles from my blog.
The idea is to promote Web Standards, (x)html compliance, good semantic markup, and just plain old usability. In other words, without the styling (and often layout) provided by CSS, can your site visitors [...]

Well more like a “washing and drying” than a ‘licking’, but my point is that recently I was even MORE impressed with Apple’s iPhone…..
My significant other, Rod, was doing some laundry the other day (it’s his chore - mine is cooking), and he neglected to check the pockets of his jeans before they went into [...]

What a weekend this has been! If you read my last post, you’ll know I was in Frisco, TX attending WordCamp Dallas 2008 on Saturday and Sunday. I’ve absorbed so much new information about WordPress that I’m afraid my brain is spilling over a bit, like when you pour a beer into a cold [...]

I’m so excited! I’m going to WordCamp Dallas this weekend!
If you’ve been thinking about attending, there are a few tickets left and the cost is only $20 - a terrific value considering that you get not one but TWO days of learning and access to some of the TOP WordPress [...]

You’d think I would have learned my lesson…..sigh…..almost 2 months ago when I upgraded my 17″ PowerBook G4 to Leopard, I ran into problems that turned out to be related to the non-Apple RAM that I’d installed (a year ago I’d upgraded my RAM from the 512MB factory installed to 2GB of memory from Crucial.com). [...]

Well it’s been just over a month that I successfully upgraded my Laptop (17″ G4 PowerBook) to Apple’s newest version of OS X, Leopard, and IMHO the big cat does not disappoint. Hundreds, if not thousands of other Apple/Mac - centric bloggers have all posted fine reviews of Leopard, including detailed synposes and opinions [...]

Often we take for granted the faceless (and sometimes nameless) programmers who provide us with all the wonderful tools, utilities, and scripts that we find freely available on the internet. Take for example the tools used on this very blog that you’re reading. Anyone who uses WordPress, and takes advantage of even a [...]

If you read my prior post detailing my frustrating experience trying to upgrade my PowerBook to Apple’s most current version of OX X 10.5 (Leopard), you may be interested in knowing that there is now a happy ending to my saga.
And the GOOD news is that it turns out that there was NOTHING WRONG with [...]

Myvu recently announced a new version of their iPod Solo Plus Edition Video Glasses that are compatible with the iPhone, so yes, I ordered a pair.
In case you’re not familiar with video glasses (or theater glasses), these are an odd looking, Geordi LaForge-style personal media viewer glasses that project the video from an iPod [...]

The “Windows vs. Mac” debate rages on, with folks on both sides taking firm stances based on strong opinions. And now comes one more reason for Windows users to be wary - the ubiquitous PDF file - a document standard used every day by millions of people. According to this report by MacWorld, [...]

The ‘Net’s abuzz today with the two biggest announcements from Apple this week - namely, the price slash on the Apple iPhone (by $200), and of course the impending ability to add custom ringtones to the iPhone.
I’m happy about the second announcement, and not too terribly upset about their ringtone pricing of 99 cents per [...]

Yes that’s Million as in $25 Million smackeroos.
Okay to understand it helps to read this item from the Globe and Mail online column, but basically the story goes like this:
Young hotshot tech-genius unlocks an Apple iPhone by performing a 2-hour, fairly complex and highly technical hardware and software modification, and is now using it on [...]

I received an email from a friend who is new to Macs, and he asked me for my opinion on using Parallels virtualization software to run Windows on a Mac (which doesn’t require rebooting) versus Boot Camp, which does.
I wasn’t able to give him an opinion, because I won’t put the Windows OS on any [...]

One of my favorite time-wasters has made its way to the iPhone - Bejeweled! The Bejeweled Game for iPhone is a free web browser app, not a download, and it’s as beautiful as its big brother that lives on your computer.
As if it’s not bad enough that I can listen to music and watch [...]

After spending some time browsing Conversation Agent, the brilliant Blog of Valeria Maltoni, in particular her post titled Why I Blog, I am inspired to write my own top 5 reasons for why I blog, so here they are:
Why I Blog:

First and foremost, to help people - there is so much in my head that [...]

This Apple iPhone plugin is absolutely brilliant…….called the iWPhone, it’s very simple, but very cool. It detects the Apple iPhone user agent, and serves up your blog using a very simple stylesheet perfectly formatted to be easy to read on the Apple iPhone without using the zoom-in feature.
I have it installed and activated on [...]

No, this is NOT the same as iPhony, the Palm OS app for Treo that emulates the iPhone look and feel - this is iPhoney, a “pixel-accurate web browsing environment” to help web developers design web sites for the iPhone. And in case you’re wondering, it’s also not a full-featured iPhone emulator, so [...]

Where will you be at 6pm on Friday, June 29th, 2007?
I know where I’ll be……..in a line…..possibly a long line……..I just haven’t decided if I’ll queue up at my local Apple Store or at the AT&T store.
I called both of them to find out if they had an idea of what will happen [...]

I hate them. Interactive Voice Response applications - the ones that answer the phones at all large businesses (and small ones that want to sound large). The older style ones that still allow you to press a digit to get somewhere are not so bad, but the new ones that want [...]

The anticipation is killing me……and I’m worried that the frenzy to own an iPhone will be so bad that I might not get one in the first wave of deliveries……of course everyone I know is telling me I’m an idiot (I prefer the term “blonde” thank you very much) for wanting to get one as [...]

Over the last couple of years I’ve set up many of my friends and family members with their own blogs (using WordPress because of it’s simplicity - even the non-geeks can be successful bloggers using it), but hadn’t any interest in doing my own Blog because I’m an introvert - and an extreme one at [...]