Archive for June, 2007

Family Tech: Easily manage what sites your kids see with Glubble

Finally I have come across something to write about that truly talks to my site motto “where technology and fatherhood collide.” It is not very often that I can write about a new service or piece of software that can help a family. Computers are now as common as TVs and now kids have computers [...]

Apple, Family, General, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Security, Software

PC: Nice blogging software from Microsoft – Windows Live Writer

I’m writing this using Microsoft’s latest beta of their blogging software called “Windows Live Writer“. There are lots of ways to do blog posts out there, from using the built-in blogging tools, to using Word 2007, to using programs like Ecto. All have advantages and disadvantages, unique and common features. Now I will add Windows [...]

General, Microsoft, Software

Mac: Launch applications quickly with “Namely”

I’m sure that many of you have already heard of QuickSilver which is one of the most powerful, free, “finder-replacement” tools out there. QS is simply amazing in letting you quickly launch programs, execute tasks, find documents…all with keyboard commands. No need to dig through hundreds upon hundreds of folders and applications to find something, [...]

Apple, General, Software

First Look: Safari 3 for Windows/Mac

While the announcements at the WWDC 2007 (Worldwide Developers Conference) in my opinion, lacked some things (e.g., new hardware announcements), the information about the up coming Leopard OS (due in October ‘07) did have me drooling a bit. And, Apple has started to extend its reach into the Windows arena similar to how they did [...]

Apple, Microsoft, Software

Fix-it: How to remove a document stuck in your Printer Queue

Recently when I was setting up a client’s computer with Windows Printer Sharing, I ran into an issue where a document was stuck in the print queue and was brining the system down to a crawl. First I tried deleting the document from the queue the “traditional” way by opening “Printers and Faxes” and launching [...]

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General, Microsoft, Software