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Guetenprint to the Rescue
I have a very old HP LaserJet 4L printer. I found it on Ebay some 10 or so years ago being sold by a local computer recycler. I won the auction for about $30 and drove to the seller’s facility to avoid paying shipping changes that were nearly twice what I paid for the printer. […]
Hi, I’m a Mac! (or It’s a Unix System! I know this!)
I finally gave in and bought myself a Mac. My five-year-old Toshiba laptop served me well, but with several pieces of the plastic case broken off and what appear to be memory issues slowing things down, I decided it was time for an upgrade. At more than three times the price of a similarly specced Windows-based machine, getting […]
Integrating Google Reader with Outlook
I hate to admit it, but I’m pretty much connected at the hip with Microsoft Outllook. 90% of the work that I do is driven by email, and Outlook makes it fairly easy for me to manage those messages, track the work I’m doing with tasks, and keep up on my appointments, all in one […]
Awesome Android App of the Day: Evernote
I started using Evernote several months ago when I needed an easy way to take notes during a meeting. It didn’t take long for me to realize the potential of the tool, which has now become my personal wiki, of sorts. Evernote is an app and a service. To use it, you need to create […]
Awesome Android App of the Day: Pixlr-O-Matic
With so many low-cost, high-megapixal digital cameras on the market these days, we’d expect to be seeing lots of high-res, vividly colored pictures everywhere. Despite the technology, however, the current rage is the retro look–with everything from grainy black-and-whites, washed-out colors of the Instamatic era, and pictures that look like they survived a flood being […]