HOLDING ONTO A GREAT IDEA

Inspiration is fleeting. Brahms once raced wildly across a field to get home and write the notes of a new theme before it fled his mind… Read more

FREE STUFF

A business card from a maid service was left under our door — we hope it wasn’t a hint to clean up our office — and on the back it said… Read more

BACK TO BASICS

People who started using computers many years ago probably remember BASIC, a relatively simple and easy to learn programming language that allowed… Read more

THE NUMBERS REPORT

The social networking site Facebook.com now claims 90 million users worldwide, about the same as MySpace.com. Another site, LinkedIn.com, popular… Read more

BOOKS

You can’t get real chemistry sets anymore, not like the ones Bob had as a kid. Lawyers fixed that. But you can still make things bubble up at home… Read more

BLOG TALK RADIO

We wrote about BlogTalkRadio when it started two years ago. Anyone and every one can host their own radio show for free, simply by registering at… Read more

ART RAGE IS ALL THE RAGE

We have two drawing tablets, and boy, are they fun. What makes them fun is the software: ArtRage 2. This is a full graphics program, capable of very… Read more

NORTON TUNE-UPS

Symantec has a group of remote control tune-up service you can buy to speed up your computer and get rid of useless junk stored on your hard drive…. Read more

FREE PHOTOSHOP

Most of the people who buy Adobe’s popular Photoshop program use only about 10 percent of its power. That’s too bad, because it’s an expensive… Read more

A TALE OF TOO MUCH MAIL

After we wrote about using Gmail to filter out spam messages, we heard from Greg, a reader who was receiving a stunning 25,000 email messages a… Read more