Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

The latest buzz word in the technology industry is “the cloud.” It’s been around for several years. Basically, the “cloud” is online storage space on some server. Perhaps you’ve heard of Carbonite or iCloud? You can see a comprehensive list of both top US and Top UK cloud storage companies and pricing at the link. [...]

Spring is here! You know what that means! Birds are coming back, grass is starting to grow, and the mailbox is glutted with catalogs and credit card offers from everyone under the sun. UGH. Well, here’s a good website to visit that shows us how to stop junk mail. Catalog Choice started up in 2007 [...]

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 do a ton of writing, and some of the articles I write require a certain amount of words in the content. I love the WordPress software for this– it has an automatic word count feature. I think this WordPress added this feature in this year, because people used to have to use a plugin [...]

I found a really neat website called ReSnooze. It looks pretty neat for those of us who are, um, forgetful, sometimes. I have a big problem with forgetting things. And NO it’s not OLD AGE! I have so much stuff crammed in my little ol’ head that it sometimes goes irretrievably spilling out! lol. My [...]

If you are like me, you forget EVERYTHING unless it is written down. But my desk is literally littered with notes, papers, scribblings, and a mass of sticky notes. Wow, to think I used to be organized! And now, I do everything from my laptop. But I can’t go sticking sticky notes to my laptop [...]