It’s still a great day to be out and about so after having some lunch and getting some things done at the house I had to head back out to the … Read More »
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New York has become the first (so far as I know) state to try to close the “Amazon Loophole” in its sales tax collections. With the passage of a new state budget, they’re requiring out-of-state interstate retailers who do $10,000 or more of business per … Read More »
Have you ever experimented with virtualization and virtual operating systems? In a post today over on OStatic (the open source blog that I edit), Lisa Hoover covers several options for running more than one operating system on one system, including virtualization and dual-boot solutions. In … Read More »
If you’ve worked in a traditional office setting, you’ve been through at least one of those mandatory birthday celebrations. They do it everywhere. Somewhere along the line, somebody must have decided the birthday thing was good for morale. One morale booster you don’t get much of when … Read More »
I am sitting here with an incredulous look on my face because that’s the way I feel. Today I have been working on the evaluation of the HP tx2000 notebook which is … Read More »
One of my favorite movies is Planes, Trains and Automobiles with Steve Martin, where he hilariously wrestles with most of the common annoyances that come up when traveling. If you’re a road warrior in addition to being a web worker, it’s good to collect the
Live mobile video startup Qik has raised $3 million, as VentureBeat reported earlier this week. The company called us yesterday to explain where it’s going and provide some additional details about the round. The $3 million in Series B founding came from Marc Benioff … Read More »
There’s quite a bit of buzz around the “Tube”, which is expected to be Nokia’s touch-enabled handset meant to compete squarely with the Apple iPhone. On paper the rumors sound appealing: large touch-screen, quad-band GSM, HSDPA, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, and camera. The S60 environment should … Read More »
For many of us web workers, Firefox is the browser we live in for much of the day. We’ve done a lot of coverage on this site of Firefox extensions, tab management and more, but the more I use Firefox the more on-the-fly navigational tips … Read More »
Although it’s pretty easy to determine how much RAM you have in a PC or Mac, it can be pretty helpful to know how much total memory … Read More »
If you’ve followed the utility software category for very long, you know that it’s very common for useful applications to get wrapped into operating systems. That’s happened with backup utilities, security utilities, and many others. Still, I keep a large collection of free, offbeat utilities around … Read More »
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