I believe in online volunteerism. Those of you who know me have seen and shared in a lot of what I care about. I do a great deal of online work and I promote it every chance that I can. In fact, sometimes I promote it HERE. In November’s Item I related how Doe Network could help you to make a difference by volunteering online from your computer and your living room.   I help with the teams or donate money to WordPress, Firefox Support, [...]

Are you one of those site owners who has had your content stolen and used on someone elses site? Are you relatively tired of getting duplicate content and paying good money for it? There are a few decent tools out there that can help you to detect it, such as Copyscape, but we all know that they’ve got a few issues and may not give us precisely what we’re looking for to avoide getting duplicate content on our websites. SAFE Corporation announced the release of [...]

Do Manners Go Out the Window in the Name of Backlinks? The answer, sadly, is yes, they do. I am consistently amazed at how many bloggers will come to your blog and not say a single word and then leave forty links and assume you’re too silly or new or just hopelessly inept at security to use a spam filter or require moderation.. Little tip for all of you, if you want a backlink.. ask.. if you try to spam us with Viagra and other [...]

Senate panel approves domain name seizure bill Now if nothing in the past has scared you about the Obama administrations plans for the internet this one should. The Senate panel has just approved a bill that will permit the government to steal your website and domain name if you are ACCUSED or SUSPECTED of piracy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation NEEDs your donations to fight this. . Apparently it’s not enough for Obama to have a “kill the internet ” switch, but NOW he wants one [...]

Since I was 35 I’ve been playing on computers, loving them. Since the internet became less than mainstream, when the BBS was the wave of the future, I’ve been playing online. Webchat Broadcasting Role playing rooms and all manner of things which the friends in my life wanted nothing to do with and just didn’t understand why on earth I found that fascinating. I was rather ostracised, called a geek, an internet addict and numerous other things.. and now I”m loving it.. I”m working here [...]

The Internet has become part of nearly every aspect of our lives, and helps most of us take care of a good portion of our banking, bills and communications. The beginning was the BBS and all that it entailed, along came email, which gave us the ability to communicate with people in other countries in the blink of an eye, and just when people have gotten used to that, along comes VOIP, giving us the ability to speak to Europe for mere pennies per minute [...]

Okay so by now, we’re all in tune with the Pirate Bay trials and how the owners of the site got their little cyber hands slapped for aiding and abetting piracy..want to read the real deal about why that trial shouldn’t have happened, how come it sux and why its total crap from the get go?

There is literally so much out there today for our use or purchase that its hard to know where to start when it comes to buying and upgrading our computers, whether they are laptops or PC’s Mac’s or even cell phones.

PDA’s seem to be all the rage right now, for people under twenty but even for those of us who are over forty and still teching it up. PDA’s aren’t just for kids you know. What the heck is a PDA? It stands for personal digital assistant. Typically it is a fax machine, a cellular phone, a mini computer and a lot more.

Senior citizens today, particularly those who are 65 or more, have survived a LOT of changes. The space race, the cold war,  the popularization of  the television, a couple of recessions, maybe part of a depression, Elvis, rock and roll, and O.J. Simpsons trial. If you can handle all that, you can certainly deal with a little computer… Increasingly I’m finding that people over the age of sixty, sometimes even over the age of seventy, are not only trying computers, but becoming prolific at them, [...]