Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

It’s just amazing how you can do EVERYTHING online these days: working, banking, investing. And did you know that you can trade stocks online? You no longer have to retain a broker, now you can manage your investments and tradings with an online stock broker, with TradeMONSTER. TradeMONSTER is a state-of-the-art, customizable trading platform, rated [...]

I found another very nice (and free!) photo editing software program: Photoscape. It’s very nice. It’s  a lot like Google’s Picasa, but without… Google. Which I prefer. Here’s the self-described key features of Photoscape: Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding [...]

This probably comes as no surprise in this day and age: could you or would you be able to make a living, hacking software? I think it would be COOL! I do a little “hacking” from time to time. Now, I’m not trying to access bank records or anything like that at all- but I’ve [...]

To the non-blogger, that title may look strange indeed… I’m referring to Bad Behavior, the WordPress plugin. I installed it. Remember how I lamented my spam problems? How I was inundated with hundreds of spam comments per day? Well, I installed the plugin called Bad Behavior, and LOOK at my spam count for the past [...]

Car parts are INCREDIBLY expensive. It’s almost mind-blowing, they are so costly. A set of front brakepads for my minivan costs about $50, and the tax is almost 10% here in Upstate New York. And then there’s the added cost of driving out to the car parts store and back. Ugh. If you’re in need [...]

I work at the computer just about all day, typing. That’s how I justify my fussiness when it comes to computer monitors and keyboards. Seriously, I am REALLY fussy about my peripheral equipment. And I think I’ve finally found my dream keyboard! It’s the HP Elite Wireless Keyboard. Now, I never thought in my wildest [...]