It’s a busy world, and all of us, bar none, have busy lives. So, we’re looking to cut time spent on errands wherever possible. When we’re able to save a few minutes a day on one of the myriad tasks we’re faced with, we feel as if we’ve really accomplished something. That’s how busy we are today!
One of the must-have skills for busy people is being organized – knowing what you have to do, when it’s got to get done, and planning how you’re going to do it. Throw a …

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” was a watchword for the 20th century, but nowadays we do things a bit differently; we may speak softly or loudly, but the only stick anyone carries nowadays is a small one – the USB stick you can use for (nearly) a million and one things!
The changes wrought by the little device known as the USB Flash Drive in our computing habits are legion. In the bare decade since they were introduced, the “stick,” which lets you store on its flash memory 4 …

When you first got it, you had delusions of grandeur; get yourself in front of a camera, and you’d be a star! But things didn’t quite work out; that freebie webcam that came with your PC became just another piece of cluttering junk, and it wasn’t long before it moved off the desktop and into the drawer – way, way in the back.
Now, though, might be a good time to dig out and dust off your webcam; we’ve got a couple of tricks that might not make you a star, …

When you first take home your fancy new cellphone that can hold endless gigs of data, run circles around the internet, and connect to the rest of the world in umpteen different ways, you’re pretty proud of yourself. It’s only when you try and get your phone connected to the sources of that data that you realize that there was one question you forgot to ask: Just how easy is it to get at the music, video and photos on your computer and on the internet?
It’s then that you realize …

Google just isn’t doing it for me anymore. Am I the only one out there who’s noticed? I don’t think so!
Like everyone else in the world, I’ve traded in the web search engine(s) I used to use for Google – to the extent that it’s now pretty much the only search engine we use (to the extent that it seems as if the “old” engines, like Altavista, are no longer there – but they are). And the reason everyone dropped their former search engines in favor of Google is because …