Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I am just more and more amazed at the leaps and bounds with which Internet technology is progressing, particularly remote access LAN management technology. I have utilized it on a very small scale with my home LAN, and on a broader level when I assisted a family member in another state, to fix his computer’s [...]

I’ve been getting a lot of hits on my post I wrote about some great educational software programs. We use them all the time here at home. Maybe other folks are going on a geography blitz or something, lol. Well, I wanted to bump up the information to the top, to give others the chance [...]

I am frequently questioned about security issues here at Mrs. Mecomber’s Scrapbook. I haven’t been addressing them very regularly, so I aim to change that. I plan to be posting about security programs, security tutorials, and security news. My hope is that these things will help you in your own computer usage, and make your [...]

I’ve had trouble for the past two or three weeks with my DSL router/modem. It’s a combination router and modem, and allows us to connect via ethernet and wireless. However, for some inexplicable reason, the wireless wouldn’t work. We couldn’t connect the laptops to the network or to the Internet. I did all sorts of [...]

I have a WordPress-based travel blog, New York Traveler.net, and I utilize Google Maps as an interactive method of mapping my travels and for easy reference. Google Maps are great because you can do so much with them, and you can customize the size you want to put the map on your blog. So I [...]