I’ve been playing with Joomla this weekend. We’ve always built our own CMS but I finally gave in and tried Joomla. It’s a very robust CMS and widely used. It’s a little slow when setting up, but it does make creating a manageable web site fairly easy. They have lots of plugins to do just…
Is everyone you know on Facebook? Yeah, me too. Have you tried getting your business or web site on Facebook? Tried creating a page? Forget it. It is simply the most confusing and poorly coded site I’ve ever seen. You never know what page you’re on, all the important links are way too small, they…
I just read an interesting article about using Gmail for bookmarks, a personal database, and more. You can read about it here: Using Gmail as Your Personal Nerve Center After recently moving from Outlook to Gmail this was an interesting read. Outlook still rains supreme for managing all of my contact information but Gmail really…
If you’re looking for a free, flexible, strong encryption software, check out Truecrypt. You can create mountable drives and even encrypt your full hard drive via its whole disk encryption feature. Truecrypt is easy to use and will protect your data from prying eyes. If you use a strong password you’ll have complete security for…
Have you heard about someone hacking into Gov. Sarah Palin’s email account and posting the information on the web? This is totally outrageous! It just makes me realize how important it is to have a strong password. Can you keep every hacker out? Maybe not, but you can certainly keep the small time guys. Be…
I love iTunes, and I use it on my Mac and PC for managing my music. I recently rented a movie from iTunes just to check out the technology. It was pretty slick as I downloaded a movie before a long flight and watched it during my flight. I paid $3.99 for the download even…
I hate to say it, but it’s true. I’ve been a loyal and avid user of PGP for over 15 years now. I started with command line PGP and moved to all of their Windows and Mac versions of the years. I was using PGP 8.0.2 for a long time and then finally decided to…
I usually hate adding plugins to Outlook. I’ve tried a few that claim to organize my email for me but I’m so organized already that I rarely have to search for things. I usually know where they are. I read about Xobni (Inbox backwards) and thought I’d give it a try. After watching the demo…
My Mac Powerbook drive crashed recently. I quickly found out what a hassle it is when you rely only on Mac. First of all, it was a major pain to open up the laptop to replace the drive. I’ve opened a lot of laptops in my time and this was one of the most difficult…
I picked up a Palm Centro a couple months ago and it’s a pretty nice unit. I’ve been struggling with the battery though because it seems to only last a few hours even if I’m not using it at all. Turns out, there’s an issue with Sprint’s email application. I uninstalled the application so we’ll…
Amazon is selling a product called the Kindle. The idea is that you carry one device and read all your books on it. You download books to the Kindle and read them on one device. It supposedly has a sharp display but somehow I don’t think I’ll ever prefer reading on electronic devices to paper….
So I picked up an iPhone and used it for a couple days. I must say it’s a huge step in the right direction for mobile computing, but I returned it. I just did not like the lack of external buttons. The soft keyboard just didn’t cut it for me. Here’s my list of pros…