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Every once in a while I run across some information that I find intriguing.  Even less often, I find something useful, but today is not one of those days.  If you haven’t guessed it, I am a geek… and geeks love computers.  Given that there are 13 of them running in my house at any given time I would say …

Another debacle by an increasingly annoying company has made me late for work today.  It seems that Apple has neglected to fix a bug with its iOS operating system that ignores the Daylight Savings time changes in its alarm application. 

I am a long standing fan of Logmein and their services; I currently utilize their service on all of my PC’s and I am quite happy with their product.  However, if you are a user of the Logmein service and realize lately that Aero is not working on your workstation anymore, the mirror driver is to blame.

Everyone is paying attention to the Android buzz, especially Apple and RIM.  With the recent news about some of the offerings coming to the table featuring Google’s Android OS how can anyone ignore it?  Android’s biggest and best feature is that it is open and free to run on various platforms, including various phone manufacturers, tablets, and more.  Recently, a …

I have been hearing rumblings lately that Microsoft’s Security Essentials is now available through Windows Update.  The availability of an antivirus application through this type of service means that users will no longer have to scour the web for a link to install it.  So what gives?

Since my recent adoption of the Android platform, I have noticed many little things that drive me crazy about the OS.  I am by no means an Apple Fan Boy, but when compared to IOS… there are just so many things that need to be refined.  Some are very important to fix quickly, and some are just annoyances.  For me, …

The current security craze is affecting more than our daily computing.  The implementation of various security measures has gone beyond standard security measures and has entered the obscene.  Where do we draw the line between taking precautions and stifling productivity.  IT concerns are valid, immeasurable, and undeniable… however, so is productivity.

There are many things about WordPress that have a catch 22 effect on you; something that you love but drives you crazy at the same time.  One of these features happens to be the post revisions introduced in current version of the CMS.  Post revisions are an excellent concept and I have used it on more than one occasion, however, …

It seems that the world is going crazy; everyone wants everyone else’s information.  Some companies are going to great lengths to protect their data.  Laptops have gone missing or stolen with tons of important data on them, copy machines have latent images on the hard drives that can contain vital or important private information on them.  So what can be …

There is a lot of functionality that a plugin can add to your WordPress configuration, but for some reason I can’t feel comfortable relying simply on plugins for everything.  When something simple comes along that can be done without a plugin, I would much rather go that route.  With that said, I had been looking for an easy way to …