Computer Tips -Tech Info

This is going to be a hub page with all of my writings and reviews related to the Amazon Kindle e-reader. Watch this space for more articles and news related to the Kindle, possible competitors and other related topics. For starters here are all of the articles in the category “Kindle”: Kindle With Special Offers [...]

This page will be divided between two principle types of uptime or website and service monitoring. The first group of listings will be websites that for free (or a fee) will monitor website uptime, or a service uptime and notify you of an outage. The other listings on this page may be of software that [...]

As you may know we had a good size snow storm here in the mountains of western North Carolina. It’s not unusual, but we will many times go a few years between these big storms. This one brought a tree down on the phone line just before it branches to our house and one other. [...]

Interesting – it looks as though Google may be limiting the number of results in their hottrends search page to just 40 now from the 100 that they used to. I’m not very surprised really…. in the last few weeks I’ve been using the hottrends to see which rogue antivirus was the biggest pain in [...]

Last Thursday I opened up my GMail and found to my surprise that I had an invite to Google Voice. I didn’t have time to deal with it at that time, so I saved it as new until Thursday evening and spent some time then playing with it. I had put my address in the [...]

I don’t know how many “cheat sheets” and manuals for google I’ve seen out there with everything from the simple search operators to more advanced tools, guides to the google services/etc. Anyway, I wanted to finally start accumulating links to them here so I don’t have oodles of extra posts on the latest greatest google [...]

As I run across linux compatible twitter clients I’ll be posting them here. If you don’t know twitter.com is a site where you can post short messages (140 characters) from a cell phone, through their web interface, or a standalone client. These messages are searchable, viewable by those that follow you and you can see [...]

Sorry for the vague title, but there are various thoughts floating around at the moment. The first is a big thanks to the support at Westhost for recovering my VPS over the last weekend. I had started an automatic upgrade of wordpress in one of the sites hosted in this vps, it hung… so I [...]

I really have enjoyed using FeedForAll as a nice, customizable way to insert ANY RSS feed into a web page. I use it with some of my wordpress sites to get relevant news (relevant to the page in question) published without the toil of multiple daily updates. It’s a nice “set it and forget it” [...]

Recovering Data from a Dying Hard Drive. This is something that I probably do at least once a month. Is it really possible to recover data from a hard drive that is failing? It depends. It depends on the state of the drive and what kind of tools you have available at hand. Many people [...]