As I looked over our stack of Christmas cards the other day, I noticed that there seem to be more and more cards with photos and other custom graphics each year. This year it seems like a good half of all of the cards we have gotten involve someone’s photos, or a personal message printed…
A couple of fellow Friends in Tech members, and the hosts of Technorama, Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe, informed me the other day that the new version of their book about learning WordPress, Sams Teach Yourself WordPress 3 in 10 Minutes is now available. For those of you looking to get started with WordPress, or…
Any of you who have seen me speak on the topic of Social Networking, whether at ILTA in 2009, or here on the blog, know that I often use the Jury Room metaphor. The Jury Room is a bar across the street from the courthouse here in Columbus, that for years was THE place to…
Interesting, given my recent post about switching to Microsoft Security Essentials, one of our home PC’s was infected with a drive-by download of Antivirus Action. As much as I would have normally lectured my wife about using Internet Explorer, in this case she had to use it to access certain work-related tools, including getting full…
While I haven’t personally been caught up in AVG update problems like the one this week, it seems to be something I’ve been reading about a bit more often than I’m comfortable with. I’ve used the free personal edition of AVG on my home PC for years, and recommended it to quite a few others,…
I saw this post about backing up your WordPress blog to Dropbox earlier this month, but when it came time to update this site to the latest WP release, that was the first time I decided to take it for a ride. Sure enough, I installed the wpTimeMachine plugin, and within a few minutes, I…