Archive for December, 2007
Fender Mind-Benders
Isn’t it cool to interface musical instruments and technology? My husband is a musician (and guitar freak). He says that versatility is “in,” and so are “alternate tunings.” He flipped when he saw someone combining the two.
He’s rather excited about this new development from Fender guitars with their VG Stratocaster.
It’s an interesting concept– with the [...]
How to Add a StumbleUpon Button to your Blog
I love StumbleUpon. It’s a type of social network, but of websites, not people. Created originally as a Firefox addon, it has expanded into a whole community meetinghouse. There’s a great toolbar you can download at the StumbleUpon site. You can start up an account with StumbleUpon, choose your interests, and surf websites under those [...]
Looking for a Program
There are some good thoughts and a bad testimony over at The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far. A friend of hers has had blog content stolen and plagiarized.
So where the recording industry and big government now, for us, the little guy?
Rrrrright.
A few weeks ago, I’d found that someone had plagiarized my travel blog’s account of our [...]
Helpful Sites For Web Building
Here’s a handy-dandy list of tools found at websites that are very helpful for web- and blog-building. It’s a list I’ve kept tucked away for my own work, but I’ll leave it with you if you promise to take good care of it.
HTML with StyleAll About.com Web DesignCSS BasicsColor Schemer OnlineHTML Color NamesWebMonkeyBrowser-safe [...]
Free Blogger Templates
I’ve seen a lot of ugly templates out there in the the blogosphere. It ain’t pretty. The Blogger default templates are OK… but boring. In preparation for my upcoming series on How to Customize Your Blogger Blog, I’m going to assign you a little homework. I’ve presenting you with a list of websites that offer [...]
Coming Soon
I’m in the process of blogging a few tutorials about how to customize your blog. I know the past few posts have been about free programs- I’ve had these ideas for a while and I wanted to get them off my chest! I’ll be posting a large series of tutorials as soon as I have [...]
Free Educational Software for Children
Outstanding. Incredible. Spectacular!
I’m talking about the lists of free educational software to be found at Owl & Mouse. We have downloaded all their programs and my kids have benefitted from it in innumerable ways.
We really enjoy their geography programs. I have the children go over them from time to time, even when we are not [...]
Flying High with Google Earth
If there is one Google product you had to have, it would be Google Earth. I thought everyone had heard of Google Earth, but I was talking to some folks recently who’d never heard it! I like the program so much that I wanted to be sure to mention it.
The family has used it countless [...]
The Gene Pool
When the family members are home for the holidays is the perfect time to accumulate and organize genealogy information. I’m the big family researcher, and I’ve got tons of papers, files, folders, photos, and documents. My grandmother left behind reams and reams of all the information she’d uncovered. I have slowly, over the course of [...]
Let It Snow with Desktop Snow
I downloaded this last year and had the happiest time with it! It’s Desktop Snow for Windows. It’s a “free trial” program (the program costs $10). It has no limitations but it does have a nag screen. It is customizable– you can have light snow or blizzard snow. You can choose the have the snow [...]
Desktop Utilities, Part 2
In Desktop Utilities, Part 1, I quickly breezed through some of my favorite programs for everyday computing, and offered a review and a link. In this post, I’m continuing the saga.
1. AdFree 3.2.This is a teent-tiny little program that takes charge of your HOSTS file. If you go to the website, you’ll see that the [...]
Desktop Utilities, Part 1
This is the first installment in a series of helpful desktop utilities you can find for free. There is a ton of high-quality, good performing free software programs out there. But finding them is not so easy. This is why I am here.
1. Desktop CalendarI’ve used this free program for many years now [...]
Emails You’d Want to See in Your Inbox
Ever since I was a newbie, I’ve been interested in forums, tech help sites, and tutorial sites. It wasn’t too easy finding them, though. It took a lot of searching back then to find good sites.
Nowadays, there’s a glut of help and tutorial sites (of which I am thankful). But did you know that you [...]
Freeing Yourself From Microsoft Office- It’s OpenOffice.org
For many years, I suffered under the grips of the only real word processing and spreadsheet program out there: the Microsoft Office Suite. At least it was better than Microsoft Works, ha ha. But Word and PowerPoint always crashed on me a lot. I learned to save my documents at every single change or line [...]
Foxit PDF Reader- a Great Adobe Replacement
It’s time has come. Finally! A worthy PDF reader has replaced Adobe Acrobat! I can’t rave enough about Foxit PDF Reader. It’s light, it’s easy, it doesn’t track my every online move, and–most importantly– it doesn’t make my computer crash when I start it up (unlike other PDF readers, ahem). For the novice, it is [...]
