Oh, the joys and terrors of technology! We’ve all been through it. Sometimes computers can be so useful, and other times they can be so frustrating. To help with your technology hurdles, here’s my personal list of favorite tech gurus, …[Continue]
Free Online Classes
What’s happening in online education is earth-shattering. If you have the motivation and desire to learn, you can now audit free classes taught by distinguished professors at many of the world’s most prestigious universities. In addition to the fly-on-the-wall experience …[Continue]
Bogus Websites
When evaluating an Internet site, how do you determine if it is credible? How do you differentiate between truth, lies and opinion? And what about satire? Can you always tell when a site is just joking? Although a complete discussion …[Continue]
Internet Magic
Do you believe in magic? These magic tricks, created by webmasters and performed over the Internet, are a unique breed of magic, designed for an online audience. Abracadabra! Enjoy….[Continue]
What is Phishing?
Phishing is the act of fooling a computer user into submitting personal information by creating a counterfeit website that looks like a real (and trusted) site. It is a hacker technique of “fishing” for passwords and other secret financial info. …[Continue]
Online Safety
As the Internet has grown, online safety has become more complex. Threats to kids include stranger danger, cyber bullying, pornography, privacy invasion, and even harm to our computers via viruses and malware. The best way to teach our children is …[Continue]
To Do Lists
Free browser-based to-do lists have proliferated like weeds over the last few years. These five sites are my favorites, and include a variety of approaches to goal tracking and productivity management. Whether you are looking for a simple list making …[Continue]
Typing Tutors
Nothing to download, nothing to pay, today’s picks offer free online touch typing lessons and typing games. Whether you call it keyboarding or typing, are teaching yourself, or looking for supplemental practice outside the classroom, these sites fit the bill….[Continue]
Internet Buzz
Like a missile on a radar screen, popular culture can be tracked, analyzed, ranked and rated by looking at search engine queries. Although they each parse the data a little differently, most search engines do give us a peek behind …[Continue]
Internet Glossaries
No matter your age or your level of expertise, technology changes so fast, we all need somewhere to lookup technical jargon and obscure acronyms. Today’s picks are online dictionaries specializing in Internet and computer terms: some are designed for elementary …[Continue]
