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Firefox 3 Links “Mailto” to Yahoo Webmail

With the launch of Firefox 3, and it’s supposed 15,000 or so bug fixes and new features, I joined everyone helping Mozilla obtain their download world record. Some of the big new features are: one-click bookmarking, iPhone-line zooming, smart location ...

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Microsoft Surface Surfaces at Rio Las Vegas

While the World Series of Poker 2008 is going on at the Rio, Microsoft has put their Surface OS tables in the lounges there.  This video shows some “applications” for the Surface, iPhone-like operating system, like games and ways to ...

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Hands Free by July 1st or Jail

If you live in California, you should be aware that as of July 1, 2008, if you drive and talk on your cell phone without a hands-free device, you can get a ticket.  I’ve pretty much ignored this law change ...

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Globat Nightmare Part 5 – Final Countdown

By now, you should now about my hate/more hate relationship with hosting company globat.com.  As I got ready to change hosting companies, my yearly contract was about to run out on May 9, 2008.  However, on April 21, a full 19 ...

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Joolma + Godaddy = Success

In case you’re not familiar with Joomla, it’s a PHP/MySQL based content management system (CMS) that you can use to create entire websites with.  I already had a godaddy.com account for another website so I decided to try to set ...

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Globat Nightmare – Part 5

In case you missed my rants about Globat, it started here. After my email confirmation with Edward Gaa, their VP of Sales and Marketing, AND a conversation over the phone with their customer service rep, that they will no longer ...

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Tivo 30 Second Skip

While watching Cranky Geeks on my Tivo, I noticed Dvorak complaining how his Tivo didn’t skip commercials like his cable DVR.  Huh?  Hasn’t he seen the tons of websites that explain how to “hack” your Tivo (e.g. BigMarv)? Just in case ...

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WordPress 2.5 not IE friendly

The non-beta version of WordPress 2.5 came out at the end of March but I held off upgrading because I didn’t have enough time. This weekend, I had some time to do some work so I decided to upgrade this ...

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Never Lose Numbers on Verizon Again

Have you ever lost your cell phone and lost all your contact information?  This seems to happen to a lot of people. Verizon Wireless has an auto backup feature that is free.  No, they don’t go out of their way ...

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Ashley “Kristen” Dupre Jump Starts Music Career

As Ashley “Kristen” Dupre brings down NY Governer Spitzer, she’s also going the way of Devine Brown by using her 15 minutes to jump start her music career.  Reports are that her first single has been downloaded 3 million times, ...

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