Computer Tips -Tech Info

One of the topics I plan to steer clear of most of the time here is politics. I don’t want this site (essentially for my business), to be engulfed with national political, conservative, liberal, etc… debates. It doesn’t fit with the structure I have in mind. However, at the intersection of political debate and technology […]

Of course, it appears that wordpress comes with support to generate rss feeds for the articles and comments listed here. I was curious to find a way to include a syndicated news feed in the site and have. So, for the main page we have Yahoo news top stories (at least for now.) At some […]

This is going to be a hub page with all of my writings and reviews related to the Amazon Kindle e-reader. Watch this space for more articles and news related to the Kindle, possible competitors and other related topics. For starters here are all of the articles in the category “Kindle”: Why a dedicated e-reader? […]

This page will be divided between two principle types of uptime or website and service monitoring. The first group of listings will be websites that for free (or a fee) will monitor website uptime, or a service uptime and notify you of an outage. The other listings on this page may be of software that […]

As you may know we had a good size snow storm here in the mountains of western North Carolina. It’s not unusual, but we will many times go a few years between these big storms. This one brought a tree down on the phone line just before it branches to our house and one other. […]

Interesting – it looks as though Google may be limiting the number of results in their hottrends search page to just 40 now from the 100 that they used to. I’m not very surprised really…. in the last few weeks I’ve been using the hottrends to see which rogue antivirus was the biggest pain in […]

Last Thursday I opened up my GMail and found to my surprise that I had an invite to Google Voice. I didn’t have time to deal with it at that time, so I saved it as new until Thursday evening and spent some time then playing with it. I had put my address in the […]

I don’t know how many “cheat sheets” and manuals for google I’ve seen out there with everything from the simple search operators to more advanced tools, guides to the google services/etc. Anyway, I wanted to finally start accumulating links to them here so I don’t have oodles of extra posts on the latest greatest google […]

As I run across linux compatible twitter clients I’ll be posting them here. If you don’t know twitter.com is a site where you can post short messages (140 characters) from a cell phone, through their web interface, or a standalone client. These messages are searchable, viewable by those that follow you and you can see […]

Sorry for the vague title, but there are various thoughts floating around at the moment. The first is a big thanks to the support at Westhost for recovering my VPS over the last weekend. I had started an automatic upgrade of wordpress in one of the sites hosted in this vps, it hung… so I […]