I tried, but just couldn’t come up with a legitimate use for the website I’m offering you today. Its only redeeming feature is that it is fun to play with, and interesting. You can choose from a large variety of facial features and make a face. Maybe you can create someone that you know! [...] Read more »
Laptops are becoming more and more popular. And it’s easy to see why – a new laptop computer has all the computing power of a good desktop machine, and it’s portable. And the netbooks are both cheap AND extremely portable. photo credit: quique_fs However…as I surf various websites (the sites I visit [...] Read more »
With the internet, we have more information available at our fingertips than ever before in the history of the world. Some of that is educational, some of it is thought-provoking, and some is entertaining. This week I’ll let you in on a website that is all three. Here in the Tampa Bay [...] Read more »
I do computer repair in Clearwater, Safety Harbor, Oldsmar and Palm Harbor (or you can bring your computer to me from anywhere and I will diagnose it and fix it). I have written before about the Geek Squad. I have had so many people tell me stories about when they went there [...] Read more »
Interesting disclaimer – even at this price, the monitor and mouse are not included.(click image to see full size)
I think this is a great way to secure your front door. You don’t even need a key now – just your finger. Of course, fingerprint readers are not exactly new technology. But I think a lot of people aren’t aware of it yet. With this type of lock on your front [...] Read more »
Your screensaver might show you random pictures from your My Pictures folder – that’s pretty common. The disadvantage to that is you are seeing the same pictures over and over. What if you could see different pictures every time your screensaver kicked in? Random pictures from OTHER people? That is what [...] Read more »
If you haven’t used Google Street View yet, prepare to spend some time on this one. This is not Google Earth. Most people have already seen the satellite pictures and said, “Hey, there’s my house!” Google Street View takes it to the next step. Imagine you are riding down your street, [...] Read more »
This is the kind of thing that I would use, just to see people’s reaction to it. For $10, you can get a plastic banana that holds your cell phone inside. Get it here.
Do you know what an avatar is? An avatar is the little image of someone that is used to represent that person on social networking sites such as Twitter or Facebook or a million others. For example, my avatar on those sites is the same one I use on my blog (the one [...] Read more »
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