Pop-can George

I never knew his name until I read his obituary. You will think I’m shallow when you read this. You are probably right.  The man has been a joke of sorts in our town since I can remember. I used to see Pop-can George riding his bike around town. He’d always have three or four plastic bags stuffed… Read More »

Is Windows 8 the new “New Coke” ?

Microsoft will release a preview version of Windows Blue in June of this year.  So in order to keep you all up-to-date on the latest news about Windows, Windows 8, and  Microsoft’s apparent, upcoming admission that they have failed, once again, to keep the consumer’s wants and needs in mind when developing new products and operating systems, read… Read More »

Windows Blue: The answer to “The Windows 8 Blues”?

This article, published by ABC news, should be of interest to all Windows 8 users, and to those Windows XP devotees who are holding on to their Windows XP systems until the bitter end (April 2014): “Since releasing Windows 8, Microsoft has sold over 100 million licenses, however users have said that the software changes were confusing. Recently, analyst… Read More »

Mary comments on IncrediMail

“According to a company news release, Google just made the horrible mistake of renewing their contract with these evildoers. I just spent a couple of hours removing one of their so-called products, “SweetPacks”, from a friend’s computer. Prior to this, the friend had suffered loss of time and work amounting to days over a period of MONTHS, due… Read More »

Things you never knew about Internet Explorer

Though Google Chrome and Firefox have seriously cut Internet Explorer’s dominance, many of you still like and user IE. But even those of you who love and use IE everyday probably don’t know it has several tools built-in that you can really use. Fire up Internet Explorer and press the F12 key to bring up Developer Tools (you… Read More »