Online Shopping hints, joys, pitfalls

A while back I became totally against Norton Internet Security and refused to work on anybody’s PC that was infected by it. That’s another story as I remained loyal to Norton AntiVirus, but not any more. I’m not alone as you can see buy doing a G search for “goodbye norton antivirus“. Continue Here…

I just made a nice find in FastStone Photo Resizer Version 2.4. None of my image editing applications seemed to do a batch resize fast and easy so I went looking and found this.

It’s a free download and is so easy. You just set the destination folder, rename, and the percent of original. This is Continue Here…

It’s really hard to keep up with what Google is doing these days. For those that use the Google Toolbar you now have the option of using their Web History.

Using the Toolbar with Page Rank on gives Google the information to track your searches and the web pages you view. They feed this back to Continue Here…

Most everybody is aware of the pop-ups that you can get when you visit a web site. Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 do a pretty good job of blocking most of those. To test your browser you can go to PopupTest. I did and found IE let 3 slip through, and Firefox failed to Continue Here…

There are hundreds of social bookmarking sites now. Some are very well known like del.icio.us and Digg, but others are obscure start ups.

You can see evidence of what I think of the trend by checking the cluster of little icons at the bottom of each post. They are the visible part of the Social Bookmarks 3.2 WordPress plugin. Continue Here…