Last night, twitter jockeys across America thumbed down (literally when you consider cell phone key pads) Melinda. What the…?! Indeed, the strongest performer since this season’s opening provided strong, consistent performances from Melinda. But as the oldest aspirant (at 29 which makes me sad), was she doomed from the beginning? It is no secret that […]

While people have pretty much figured out how to optimize their phone usage in the US, going overseas opens up a whole new hurdle so here some basic information to get your started. GSM In most everywhere in the world, it is the GSM standard. In the US, you are one or the other, the […]

Ok, so J.K. Rowling has completed her series about the boy wizard. What does she do now? Launch into a new series? Most certainly but how soon? Say what you will, the lady has created an appealing universe to legions of young readers and that is a good thing. According to this blog, the Ellen […]

Back in the day, I had to really work exploiting the under-privileged – quite often past 6 O’Clock! And for what? Just for an opportunity to buy my own private jet, yacht, Ferrari or my own barrel of Jack Daniel’s … But now, you don’t even need to own your own island to be appear […]

“In the video space, iTunes is just a temporary flash while consumers wait for better ways to get video. They’re already coming,” said Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey, the author of the study, who also called the paid download video market a “dead end.” TV Show DVD’s – Who would buy that when they can […]

Ok, now I am peeved. It is bad enough that postal rates have been jacked up wily nily for the past four years, but now it turns out that not only are rates going up again this Monday, May 14th but there are new rules coming to light now that have not been fully expressed […]

Some people want to be found online, inline and out of bounds. They want to be traced via blogs, social networks, forums, newgroups, whatever – here I am world! But others, not so much. So if you want your phone number unlisted and not in Google’s phone search, here’s the Google Phonebook Name Removal Page. […]

Stake your claim to internet fame – try to create a new suffix, ICANN seems to be interested in hearing new submissions … I grew sleepy reading this FAQ page which seems to start each answer with … “No, But …” Here is their forum for discussing gTLDs (generic top-level domains) – oh come on, […]

As someone who has to do a lot of research, I have used a lot of different search engines & search sites and recently Charles Knight of Read/WriteWeb came up with a list of 100 alternative search engines. Some were familiar to me, some were not and I knew of a couple dozen more not […]

Cue the tiny pies & tarts. Cue the bugs! ACTION! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbTve9D0fmQ] Did you guess what the advertising is for? Here’s the product.