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, [...]

I’m a working mom (at home), and I also homeschool, so our life here is *pretty* busy. I’ve been seraching for ways to better manage my little business and the kids’ activities (not to mention all the appointments and taking vitamins and ordering supplements and such). A Twitter pal mentioned the Cozi app, so I [...]

I’m not too pleased with this one. It messed up my computer! That’s too bad, because I think it is, overall, a very effective program when it works correctly. A discussion by young mothers on Twitter caused me to look into Internet filtering software again (see my brief review of Blue Coat K-9 software). Their [...]

I’m horrified at the rampant spread of malware and viruses that are hitting computers. That junk used to be a threat for people who visited “seedy” websites, or who opened up email attachments (which I don’t). Now, your computer can get a viruses or trojan just by VISITING an infected website. Disgusting! I found a [...]

I was given a link to a good website today. I’d been having web hosting server problems, and it seemed that somewhere down the pike between my computer and my server at Hostgator, I was encountering connection problems. The tech support dude gave me a link to a website where I can check all the [...]

Getting a new computer is so much fun! And I do reformats regularly here. Unfortunately, I am the IT person in the family…. as we have a whopping total of EIGHT computers to manage. And that doesn’t count the ones in temporary storage. I do a lot of tech help stuff, and so I have [...]