I noticed today that Google has made a serious change in their effort to stop spam, particularly that of phishing emails. I use a hosted application that generates emails every time a specific action occurs. But all of a sudden today there were no emails. I checked my spam folder, and there they were.

I noticed something new about these emails: (more…)

So I recently got an email from someone on Craigslist, and needed to find out a little more about them. The email address gave me no information about who they were, where they lived, or who they worked for. I googled the address, but nothing valid came up. So I had to find a decent email address lookup tool. (more…)

I recently upgraded from a 22" to a 28" LCD monitor. I was thinking of going for 30", but there was such an incredible deal at TigerDirect on the I-INC 28" (iF-281DPB) that I couldn't pass it up. Nor could I justify spending an extra thousand dollars from only two more inches.

But the old adage has proven true – you get what you pay for! (more…)

AdWords is an incredibly powerful and easy tool that enables advertisers to feature their website to people that are searching for, or reading about, relevant information. In fact, that's how Google funds Gmail, it places these relevant ads within your Gmail window, next to any email you are reading, contextual to the emails' contents.

Usually these ads are pretty bang on, and usually I just ignore them. But I have to admit that my eyes were drawn to this particular ad today: (more…)