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How To Get Gmail’s Priority Inbox Back – Guaranteed

  • 5 Jun, 2013

Have you tried out Gmail’s new inbox groups? They’re kind of nice, but I’m not a fan of the pre-defined categories. I’d rather see those tabs as some of my labels. That’d be much more productive for me. If you want to switch back to Gmail’s Priority Inbox first click on the gear icon and […]

Setup a Wireless Printer with D-Link’s Shareport

  • 4 May, 2013

If you have a D-Link wireless router chances are there is a USB port on the back. With this, you can set up a printer wirelessly. Sadly, you can not just plug it and be happy. That’s too easy. Instead, D-Link created Shareport. Shareport is their software that is supposed to make the magic happen, but it sucks. […]

Secure Your WordPress Site with 3 Simple Changes

  • 12 Apr, 2013
Blog Security

If a site asks you to login, then someone will try to hack it. WordPress is no exception. The good news is it’s really simple to make your site even more secure. 1. Strong Passwords This should be a no brainer, but people continue to use simple passwords. I’ve seen major companies using horribly easy to guess […]

Facebook Home – Facebook’s Android Announcement

  • 5 Apr, 2013

There is lots of buzz on the internet right now about Facebook’s Home app. The basics: Facebook Home is an application that puts people first, apps second. It’s not a phone, although Facebook partnered with HTC and ATT to build phones that are built around Facebook Home. Facebook now has ‘Cover Feed’ this is the […]

Turning Twitter.com into a nice standalone app with inline images.

  • 20 Mar, 2013

Twitter’s website has a lot of nice features but it’s not really a Twitter app that most people think of. However, with some CSS and JavaScript you can take all the features of Twitter.com, add in some additional ones, and make a pretty nice app. The first thing I did was create a Fluid app […]

Does the end of Google Reader kill my productivity? Probably not.

  • 14 Mar, 2013

When I heard that Google was killing Reader, I was shocked. It’s one of my most used services. I’m a power user. I check Reader at least twice a day, if not more. I use it to track 84 different website with hundreds of stories a day; over 5,000 stories in the past 30 days […]

Quick fix for iOS 6’s internet connection issue.

  • 28 Feb, 2013

When we returned home from vacation, our iPhones connected right up to our wireless, but they couldn’t load any websites. I was quite confused as nothing had changed with our wireless, but it failed to work; yet the computer worked just fine. Turns out, the issue was with the DNS. A quick update to the […]

Why is finding books so hard in iOS book apps?

  • 20 Feb, 2013

I can’t quite figure out why the three leading eBook companies make it so hard to find books on the iPad. The other day my daughter wanted a princess book so I opened up iBooks on the iPad and searched. I could search for books in the store, but, much to my surprise, I could not […]

Props to Microsoft for making a sweet Internet Explorer Ad

  • 25 Jan, 2013

Microsoft seems to have hired a good advertising company for Internet Explorer. The recent ads have been pretty good and their recent ad is kinda awesome. How do you reach your target audience? Well with sweet 90s references of course. Sadly, after this pretty sweet ad, I remember than IE for Mac died in 2003. Oh […]