Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I remember, waaaay back in the “olden” days (pre-1999, haha), authors used to have to jump horrible hoops and hurdles to get their books published. It was very difficult to even get a publisher to look at your manuscript. I know how difficult it was, as I tried to do so a few times with [...]

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 [...]

Brand-name software is horribly expensive. I recently perused my local computer retail store, and was shocked to see Microsoft Office on “sale” for $499. Holy cow! Because I homeschool, we rely heavily on computers and educational software. I feel it is rather unfair that most retailers give discounts to public schools but refuse to offer [...]

I have to order new bank checks. Have you noticed your bank increasing the price of printing bank checks, or is it just me? I forked over $50 for two boxes of printed bank checks a few months ago! Yow. That bit the budget big time. I used to get checks through some mail-order service, [...]

I just LOVE vintage photos. For one, they are cool to look at. It is amazing to see how so much has changed, especially after the inception of technology. And two, the photos are usually public domain, and free to use! I found one nice site with various vintage photos: Shorpy. I have no idea [...]

I spent the better part of the weekend in computer repair work. I helped my pal in Virginia clean his computer of a nasty virus (we did it through long distance telephone, that was fun :-p). And then I had my own problems to fix. Last week, a lot of my software programs got “updates” [...]