RMA or return merchandise authorization is when you send back a defective product to the manufacturer of the product while it is still under their warranty. They have to give you what is called a RMA number, which means that they know that you are sending back a product that is still covered. Once [...]

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Think that the password for your computer system, e-mail, web site, web forum is secure? Well, you might be wrong.
There are many programs on the Internet that can allow someone to repeatedly enter words from the dictionary into your user name and password field to attempt to gain access. This type of attack is [...]

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I sometimes feel like Mozilla should have have added tabs to Firefox because it can become a tease. I will open a bunch of tabs, and Firefox will start taking up ten times more memory than any other program running. Every once and a while, Firefox will decide that I should not be able [...]

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Have you had the same hair cut since high school? Since elementary school? I know my mother has not changed her hair since she got out of high school back in 1983. Over twenty years with the same hairstyle is pretty crazy, especially these days. It grows out of style and as your face changes, [...]

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In any company for the most part, you always have a chance that they will decide to let you go, and your job as an employee is to find ways to make it so you are in a position that they would have a hard time replacing you.
This can be anything from taking over [...]

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One of the many things I use to help me keep organized is also one of the things that probably takes up the longest amount of my time in the morning: Bloglines.
Bloglines is a website service that allows you to subscribe to the RSS feed of a website. Basically allowing you to keep [...]

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A, B, AB, O. No these are not the grades I got last semester at college. These are the types of blood that the Canadian Blood Service and American Red Cross are looking for.
Save a Life
One liter of blood can help save one life. Be that the life of a complete stranger, someone you [...]

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I know for sure that a lot of you have been there, you have been designing a site for a week and a client just won’t stick to a layout, the client constantly asking for changes and just can’t make up his or her mind. If the pay is great, then you’re doing what you’re [...]

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CPU or Computer Power User is a magazine for people like myself who are interested in computer and technology. I find the magazine well formatted and the variety of articles just superb.
Some of their contributors include Chris Pirillo, and Rob Malda who are both more or less geek icons with their sites being [...]

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Many people are not fans of public speaking, and while I can understand your fear, once you are up there, it is one of the most exciting things you can do. Over at LifeHacker they have an article up about public speaking, that has tips for those of you that sweat just thinking about [...]

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Starting
If I start designing a website for a client that is not sure of how they want the end result to look or what is needed in the design, it’s hard. To pull a worthwhile design out of thin air, without any guide to what the client needs or would like, is a long shot. [...]

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Often I get to a point where I just don’t have the resources to complete a project that I’ve started and find myself looking for a hand to help me out. This comes to my point; it is valuable to have a network of contacts at your disposal. Whether these contacts are past clients, real [...]

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Over at LifeHacker there is a short article up that is an amazing tip for those of you that have a Gmail account.
You can use Gmail as a file viewer. At a friends place that does not have the ability to open the file you brought? E-mail it to yourself, and click the [...]

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If you’re anywhere within the buying, designing or developing sectors of websites then you have probably heard this new buzzword in the air, Web 2.0. I’m certain some of you who might not have heard of this before suddenly had a thought pop into to your mind along the lines of: “the web has a [...]

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Buying a computer is usually a very exciting time in a person’s life. Whether or not you’re a geek or someone in need of a computer for work or school, it’s important to know which one to buy for your specific needs. I won’t even go over the whole Apple versus Personal Computer debate [...]

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