This Christmas, I noticed a trend among the gifts my friends and family received. A lot of them were now proud owners of a Kindle. So I got to thinking that they might need my help in finding great free e-books to put on their e-readers.
This site is the best of… Continue reading
Greatest Achievements of the 20th Century
Here at this site you can check out the top twenty engineering achievements of the 20th Century! It is amazing how many of these achievements define our everyday lives today.
For example on the top of the list is Electrification. Can you imagine a life without electricity? I sure couldn’t!… Continue reading
Apparently I missed this awesome show on PBS, where a family volunteers to live in a house as though they were living in the year 1900.
There are several interesting ways to navigate the site. You can use the house icon, and click the different rooms, you can click on the picture of the family, or you can… Continue reading
This is too cool not to share. I was clicking around on YouTube last night, when I noticed a button I hadn’t seen before. It’s called the Show video statistics button, and it opens up a whole new world, when it comes to stat tracking on YouTube!
All you have to do is browse over to YouTube.com and look for a video – any video… Continue reading
Rather than looking at only one facet of Leonardo da Vinci and focusing on his genius in just that aspect, this site tries to correlate all the many different facets of his genius. I had a hard time trying to decide how to present this site to you. It is an amazing journey… Continue reading
Does your day begin with an hour or more commute to work sitting in a bus, train, or taxi? Perhaps you’re flying across country (or to another country) on a business trip, with many, many hours to be spent in flight en route to your destination. Or maybe you’re planning a multi-day road trip in your own car, for a meet up with friends and family back home. Then again… Continue reading
You’ve heard me talk in the past about how I use Yahoo! because it gives me all my news and views in one place, but that I also like to use Google as my search engine, right? Well, that was until I stumbled across iGoogle – a feature that has been around for a while which allows me to get the best of both worlds.… Continue reading
Poinsettias for me are synonymous with Christmas. Growing up, the house would be filled with poinsettias at this time of year, in every possible color, and then my mom would keep them and nurse them through the year.
This site is devoted to teaching you all about poinsettias. I suggest you start… Continue reading
One of the reasons that Firefox has so many loyal users, is because of the countless add-ons that are available to extend the browser’s functionality. These free programs can increase productivity, boost performance, and amaze you with eye-popping graphics. Here are ten of my favorites.
1. AdBlock Plus – With over 800,000 downloads a week, this is undoubtedly the most popular add-on for Firefox users… Continue reading
Learn how to change the number of results that appear when you do a search on Yahoo! Continue reading
One of the things that I spend a lot of time doing every semester is making PowerPoint presentations for class. PowerPoint can be very annoying to use, and it’s hard to make a decent theme without paying a ton of money for a good template. So boy, was I ever shocked when I found 280 Slides.… Continue reading
Most people still rely on their email when it comes to sharing files with their friends or colleagues. However, free email providers usually have restrictions on the file size of attachments. For example, Gmail will not allow you to send files larger than 10 Mb.
GE.TT is a website which is built just for such folks. Although there are many file sharing websites on the internet, usually… Continue reading
November 29, 2010.
Google Launches Google Earth, version 6.0.
Google Earth has come a long way since its inception in 2005. It still maps the earth by satellite and aerial photography, but it’s not all about the earth anymore. Now you can take tours of sites on the moon that are narrated by Apollo astronauts, go diving in an… Continue reading
Operation Letter to Santa: Wallpapers
Are you looking for a nice Christmas themed wallpaper to decorate your computer desktop? Then you’ve come to the right place. Here at Operation Letter to Santa, is a fantastic collection of Christmas themed wallpapers. Best of all they are free!
To navigate, scroll down the page and you’ll… Continue reading
Have you ever wondered what they did for hearing loss before the invention of modern day hearing aids? Do images of ear trumpets come to mind? It’s something that I started wondering about over the last couple weekends because I was talking to my mom and the subject of her needing a hearing aid… Continue reading
If you switch from one computer to another, one basic problem you face, if you’re a Firefox user, is that you lose all your add-ons, passwords, bookmarks and history. There is a Firefox backup add-on which can be used to back up your Firefox profile, but it is not so easy to use.
There is a tool known as MozBackup that not only backs… Continue reading
Mary, from Boston asks:
I lost the password to my WiFi network and can’t figure out how to get it back. Can you help?
With the advent of laptops and smart phones, wired internet is fast becoming a thing of the past. While it has not become obsolete completely, the widespread usage of Wi-Fi networks and the improvement in Wi-Fi technology has made it… Continue reading
With the launch of the new WorldStart book, Internet Security Survival Guide in .PDF, we’ve received a number of questions about the .PDF format. Consequently, we’ve decided to offer some information that may help answer some of these questions.
What is .PDF?
Adobe introduced
Have you ever wondered why a civilization might have collapsed? Well, I certainly have, but that’s the sort of thing that pops through my head on occasion. This site looks at why civilizations may have collapsed.
It looks at several different collapsed societies like the Maya, Mesopotamia, Chaco Canyon, and Mali & Songhai… Continue reading
I’ll admit that I don’t usually go to Bing as my main search provider, but I was there just the other day and noticed that you can change the background image by clicking the little arrows on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
That’s neat, but you may also notice little squares that appear as you
I was doing a flower search to try and remember how to spell hydrangea for a list of my favorite flowers and I ran across this site. After browsing it, I knew I had to share it with you, because it’s pretty awesome.
There are several ways to browse this site. You… Continue reading
Friends of Auburn Heights Preserve
I find steam-powered machines really interesting, so when I found this site that has tons of great pictures and information about them I had to share it with you. I recommend browsing this page by clicking on the links in the introductory text (the text of the link will be blue – just… Continue reading
The other day I was playing a Flash game online, but when I tried to go back and play some of the earlier levels, I found they were blocked. I tried to relieve this problem the usual way, by clearing out my web history, but that didn’t work.
Then, as if by providence, I stumbled across the Flash Player Website Storage Settings Panel. It’s online… Continue reading
Have you ever wondered what the shutter count of your digital camera is? Well now you can find out with My Shutter Count.
It’s very easy to use too! Just click the Browse button, and select a photo on your computer that you shot with your digital camera, and then click open.… Continue reading
