Some Gadgets You Don’t Need
… by Gadgetbox. I think the bike book holder sounds promising.
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Goodbye WebOS
I was mildly, but not seriously, annoyed to hear that HP is dropping its WebOS products, the Pre based phone and HP TouchPad. As a relatively satisfied owner of a Palm Pixi, that means my phone and OS are orphaned, but I’m guessing the odds were that I’d be on an Android phone after my…
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Bad Restaurant Web Sites (from Slate)
A year or so ago I tried to order Pizza via a company’s web site. About a half hour after I started, I gave up on getting what I wanted into the order and got on the phone. The web site was beautiful, but it was hard to get from here to there. Thus I…
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Basic Malware
I’m writing this article so that I can refer callers to it. It’s going to be very, very basic. I’ve been getting calls from people who have been referred by my clients, generally with serious malware issues on their computers. When I look at the machine I invariably find that there is a fairly simple…
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Self-Employment Tax Danger Signs
I’ve derived some or all of my income from self-employment almost all of the last 20 years. I’ve gotten pretty good at estimating what I will make, and I can come close to my self-employment tax for the year in my head. But I’m not going to give you advice specifically about self-employment tax. Except…
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HP Has Plans for webOS
As the owner of a Palm Pixi, which I’ll admit I only own because Sprint brought the price down to $0, I’m glad to see that HP has big plans for webOS.
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Libre Office Living Up to Its Name
I have long been an advocate of OpenOffice.org, and have some of my commercial clients using it. For most business needs for an office suite, it provides more than enough capability, and saves companies large amounts of money, even if they make significant donations to the project. I was disappointed in the latest version of…
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How to Buy the Wrong Laptop
Image via Wikipedia … or any other computer, for that matter. As usual, I had several calls over the holidays asking me for recommendations on buying a new computer. This year, all the requests related to laptops. What these callers want is for me to give them the technical specifications they need in order to…
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Do You Want to Kill Your Blog?
If you do, Entrepreneur Daily Dose has 10 things you can do to make it happen! I’m guilty of #5, #6, #7, and #8, and probably will continue to be. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t avoid them! You’ll have to go read to find out which other rule I’m breaking on this very post.
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The Vanishing Difference Between Blog and Web Site
Some time ago I started switching all of my company’s (Energion Publications) web sites to use WordPress as a content management system. As I began to do that I intended to make those sites look as little like a blog as possible. The basic idea was that a blog is a sort of personal…