BOOKS: “PUBLISHING A BLOG WITH BLOGGER”

“Publishing a Blog with Blogger,” by Elisabeth Castro; $20 from Peachpit.com. It seems like half the world wants to have their own blog on the… Read more

CHEAP CALLS

The new Google phone coming out in 2010 will use “Gizmo5,” software that lets you make cheap or free Wi-Fi calls from a cell phone or computer…. Read more

PARK’N FIND

Bob says he can go right to his car in any parking lot. But Joy says she once hunted for hers for at least a half hour. Park’n Find from… Read more

THE DISNEY COMPUTER

Editor’s Note: After writing this review, we had a major change of heart. Our young relatives love this machine.  Lucky for them, they don’t read… Read more

THE NEW WIKIPEDIA

Joy had no trouble adding the following information about Bertha Palmer, wife of the well-known land developer, Potter Palmer, to a Wikipedia… Read more

BUILD A GAME

The new version of Video Game Tycoon lets wannabe game designers build their own video games and post them online to GAMESweet.com, where anybody can… Read more

MOVIE CLIPS, RECYLERS, STOCKTWITS, GROUPON

– MovieClips.com has 12,000 two-minute video clips from the libraries of 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and… Read more

MICROSOFT STUFF

Microsoft Office Online (office.microsoft.com) has really improved its site. Here’s some new free stuff we thought useful: — Get templates… Read more

GOOGLE STUFF

Google’s Fast Flip gives you thumbnail images of a variety of magazines and newspapers. Flip through them to decide what you want to… Read more

PAPER SHOW

People who give presentations on a big screen, often like to draw on a tablet connected to their PC, to emphasize or call attention to a diagram. But… Read more