You know, generally speaking, I like technology. I really do. I’m not sure how I’d get along without a computer and internet access, but I know I wouldn’t like it very much, at least not until I had gone through a long and potentially painful withdrawal period. However, there are some technologies and gadgets that [...]
Technology
OpenDNS – a safer and faster DNS
When I completed the sign up process at A Small Orange the other day for my new hosting, at the bottom of the page, there was a brief blurb about OpenDNS. I’d never heard of it before, so I checked it out. After using it for a few days, I’m happy with it. Here’s a [...]
One of my computers nearly melted.
Or rather, the CPU nearly melted. When I got up this morning and came downstairs, after getting a glass of water, I headed towards the computer to cehck my email. I moved the mouse around a bit to take up the monitor, and… nothing happened. I looked down and saw something I’d never seen before: [...]
Sometimes, I really don’t like my iPod.
I was getting ready to go to the store, and wanted to have some new podcasts to listen to. I opened up iTunes and started updating my podcasts. New episodes of a few were indeed available; cool. I plug in my iPod. It starts updating. iTunes crashes.
I restart iTunes. It starts updating my iPod again. [...]
According to Microsoft Live, feed readers don’t exist
Kind of, anyway. I just stopped by live.com to see what it was like (having not touched it during its entire beta period, oops!) I punch in ‘feed reader’.
This is what comes back:
Hmm…. Okay, let’s try feedreader, with the words merged:
Wow. One little space takes us from 0 results to 238,842?
Okay, and now let’s try [...]
