One of the things I’ve always hated about Microsoft Excel is that every time you open a new document it opens in the same window/frame, so without some creative maneuvering you can’t really have two spreadsheets open together. I found a fix today that took a little bit of work, but work it did. Here’s

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The 24-hour news stations and explosion of social media news sharing means that there’s never really a time without breaking news.  But in reality, some news days are completely dull, filled with droning financial news and the latest political drivel while other days are filled with flashy scandals and big announcements… perfect fodder for social

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Microsoft announced today it will be acquiring Skype for the nice round number of $8.5B. I have two thoughts. Personally, I like the fact that personal desktop conferencing will find a wider audience as it moves to Kinect-set top boxes, computers, and other internet-ready devices. Professionally, since I work for a company that supports high-end

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Update (5/3/2011)  - Charts showing the Twitter traffic before, during and after the announcement. On this particular blog, this is post #100.   Usually that would be cause for celebration, but given the announcements made on 5/1/2011, it pales in comparision. As you have no doubt heard, read, or have seen, President Obama announced to

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If you’ve been sitting on the fence on whether to move your email, calendar and online collaboration to Google Apps, you better make your decision quickly. In an email delivered this morning, the Google Apps team announced that on May 10, 2011 Google Apps will be limiting users to ten or less.

Yeah, you know all those iPhone commercials that tout the iPhone’s ability to surf and make phone calls at the same time? Well, Skype just made that commercial obsolete with it’s latest upgrade for the Android phones. The software update, released today, allows Android users to make phone calls and chat over their 3G connections

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I’ve been building websites for a long time. Seems like yesterday I was using Netscape Composer to build one-column websites with spinning @ symbols and horizontal rules everywhere. Good times… good times. But now there’s a much easier, much more powerful platform to quickly build dynamic websites. WordPress. The blog and content management system (CMS)

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Six years ago, I had in my possession a Windows XP Tablet PC. It was clunky, heavy, got extremely hot, required a stylus, and had a 12″ screen. And I loved it. The freedom from a physical keyboard & mouse made web browsing and Word doc and PDF reading a great experience. Jump-cut to yesterday

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