When I was in high school, Dad suggested I take a typing class. The reward for the class was a manual typewriter, what we used in first year typing. Then I decided that a second year of “college prep typing” wouldn’t hurt and of course for that class we switched to electric typewriters. So it cost Dad an electric at the end of that year. Read more »

Even organized, with 10,000+ files you are going to forget where you might have stored that file with Aunt Sally’s favorite cookie recipe.

That’s where a local search program comes in handy.

There are two free ones, Google Desktop Search (http://desktop.google.com/) and Microsoft Desktop Search (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx). Read more »

I was working at my desk last evening and I got a notice of new Tweets from Tweetdeck.  One of the messages was about the bombing in Mumbai.  Then a couple of more popped up, along with a link for a Twitter search, which I followed.  I read a few and went over to CNN.com, not much there.  About 15 minutes later, my Google news alerted me that CNN.com had posted an article. Read more »