Firefox shortcuts

I saw a conversation on Lifehacker today that made me realize that not everyone knows about this quick little shortcut to get to a couple of popular websites.
In the address bar type the letter “g” and hit enter, you will be taken directly to gmail. Typing the letter “a” takes you to the wikipedia [...]

How to Backup your Wordpress Blog

There are a couple of ways to back up your wordpress blog. If you are hosting your own wordpress blog (sometimes referred to wordpress.org and not wordpress.com) you can backup your database your webhosts admin controls. You can also backup your blog by exporting your posts and comments. This is what I [...]

How to Back up Your Blogger Blog

I know of at least two ways that you can back up your blogger blog. The first one is to open up a free backup blog on wordpress.com and then import your blogger blog. However it is the other method that I want to look at today.
The nice guys over at codeplex.com have [...]

MS Office Program Viewers

Since I got so much positive feedback on yesterday’s post about free software I thought I would post three very useful free software tools. Microsoft Office is an expensive program and not everyone has it. The most recent MS Office software release also introduced a new file format. So for those of [...]

Free Software Suggestions (part one)

I don’t know anybody who likes to spend money on software. Luckily there are free alternatives out there. Some are almost as good as the big buck version and some are a lot better. Lets look at a couple of big money savers.
The first big money saver would be a free operating [...]