Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I’m a little surprised how few choices exist for desktop Twitter applications. Seriously. Twitter is wildly popular, yet the only *big* desktop apps I am aware of is TweetDeck and Seesmic. That’s it?! Unless I’m missing something. HootSuite doesn’t even HAVE a desktop app, just a browser app. Someone correct me if I am wrong, [...]

When you connect to the Internet, you not only receive information, you release information. Your computer has identifiable data that is displayed for others to see (mostly advertisers and tracking counters such as Google Analytics or StatCounter). Some information is necessary, such as the web browser you use. This information helps the website properly load [...]

This is an amazing little application! It’s PDFmyURL. I heard about it from Kim Komando. It’s a little application that converts a web page into a PDF file. I love it! I frequently travel to areas with no Internet connection, yet I do still need to work from web pages for my jobs. PDFmyURL allows [...]

I used Opera for years and years and like it a lot…. but when it comes to nifty little tools and helps, Firefox wins hands down. One such example of a terrific addon is ReminderFox. ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In [...]

Uh oh. I hate reading this stuff Monday mornings…. but this security issue looks like a doozy. Flash flaw puts most sites, users at risk, say researchers ‘Frighteningly bad thing,’ said Foreground Security, of flaw allowing hackers to hijack sites, attack users November 12, 2009 (Computerworld) Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe’s Flash to [...]

One of the biggest complaints I have with search engines is that a LOT of the material I get is dated. I am constantly searching for news, current events, and forum help postings, and it is SO frustrating to get stories from 2007, 2008, and even earlier. And there doesn’t seem to be any way [...]