Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Yamaha. All opinions are 100% mine. If you are holding on, STILL searching for perfect gift for the technology geek and audiophile in the family– or looking for a nice music accessory for your home– what have you been waiting for? Check out this [...]

This news isn’t going to please the tree-huggers…. the latest development to come down the pike in the insatiable thirst for energy is paper. Yes, paper! Scientists have been tinkering away, and have found that paper, when coated with ink made of silver and carbon nanomaterials, allow it to become a high-energy, highly-efficient source of [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine. I have a slew of blogs, and one of them is a travel blog. We have THREE cameras and a camcorder with which I or the kids take photos. It’s so much fun to snap photos! But when [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Charter. All opinions are 100% mine. I watched a documentary about the history of Apple Computers; it was fascinating. The best part of all, I thought, was the comparison of the Internet of 15 years ago, and the Internet of today. Holy cow, the [...]

Well, well, hard drive management and recovery are topics in my mind these days. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I recently had to reformat THREE computers in the past THREE MONTHS. Ugh, what a chore! In one reformat, I lost some data. *bangs head* I’ve been working on redoing the [...]

It’s not a done deal YET, but it looks extremely probable: California is set to ban those high-energy consuming televisions. On Tuesday, executives and consultants for the Arlington, Va., trade group asked members of the California Energy Commission to instead let consumers use their wallets to decide whether they want to buy the most energy-saving [...]