Are you a USB key drive loser? Then get this one!

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had problems in the past losing my USB key drives. The problem is that they are handy, but they are too dang small! You can misplace them, and never find them again, until of course, that time when you don’t need it. They have ones [...]

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Do you have a lot of big blocky power cords that take up space? Try this!

Do you have a lot of electronics with big blocky power cords that take up too much space on your surge protector? I mean, you plug one in, but it hides the other one under its huge box, andyour other outlet slot has gone to waste! Surpluscomputers.com has a nifty and simple little [...]

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Mind map your ideas for clarity!

I didn’t know too much about mind mapping until I read this book about photoreading. Photoreading – I won’t go into that today, because I’m not sure if it works. Anyways, then a friend told me about mindmapping software. Basically mind mapping is just creating bubbles that represent ideas and then linking [...]

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There is no such word as ‘irregardless’!

Bad grammar is often my pet peeve.  During my working career, I have heard people use this word – irregardless.  It’s not a word people!   It’s simply ‘regardless’.
This is from www.answers.com:
ir·re·gard·less (ĭr‘ĭ-gärd‘lĭs)
adv. Nonstandard.
Regardless.
USAGE NOTE   Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it [...]

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Need to send big files to your friend(s)? Use yousendit.com!

If you’re like me and have friends and relatives you want to send pics to directly, but the total pics size is too big to send via email (like 125 mbs!) then you can benefit from yousendit.com.
Basically, www.yousendit.com is a website that lets you upload a file to its server, then gives your sender(s) a [...]

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The eighties are back in, will kids peg their pants again?

Just a random thought – the 80s seem to be clearly in. Dukes of Hazard as a movie? Transformers the movie in the near future? 80s songs playing at the mall?
But will the kids start pegging their pants again? You know, roll the pants bottom to the side, and fold up?

I’ll [...]

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