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So you finally decide you want to purchase your own computer and have it custom built just for you. Reasons for this could be that you don't want all the extra software that comes bundled with major manufacturers such as Dell, or you want to have a ... nice high-end system built with the specs just the way you like it. Here is a little advice based on some of my experiences. Ask yourself the following questions and think about them: What kind of computer do I need? Will it be used only for email and Internet access, or as a business computer or both? Do you have specific applications you want to ... (view more)

Big news from CESweb.org ! Yahoo announced Yahoo Go . Yahoo Go is actually a combination of 3 items: Yahoo Go Mobile, Yahoo Go PC and Yahoo Go TV. Yahoo Go Mobile integrates Yahoo's services with a phone's built-in email, messaging, address book and ... calendar applications. So, if you lose your cell phone, your contact information isn't lost forever -- it's available online and can be synched with a new mobile phone. Now that is a NICE feature. Yahoo Go PC will initially include a Yahoo Go Desktop dashboard that will allow you to keep your friends, contacts, news, mail and more, right on your ... (view more)

As I reminisce about the year gone by, I realize that there was a lot going on. What really stands out for me as the top tech stories of 2005 are as follows: 1. Google. Google becomes a powerhouse company, rolling out beta after beta. Some bomb (Web ... Accelerator); some are so fantastic I wonder how I lived without them (Gmail/Gmail Mobile), and some just confuse (GoogleBase). Still, Google makes it known they are a force to be reckoned with. Watch out for Google's online office suite in 2006. You know it's coming. 2. Tagging. Everyone is tagging now. Tag photos on flickr. Tag bookmarks on del. ... (view more)

Google lets you add customized content to your personalized Google homepage once you sign into your Google account . It's a great feature that allows you to really customize the page with favorite RSS feeds, weather, stocks, etc. And now there's ... Google Modules : an unofficial website that offers up many modules you can add to your homepage. The modules are small widgets that go beyond what Google offers (as far as just adding a feed or a link). For example, there's games (including Pac-Man!), Del.icio.us modules, to do lists, translators, images, and more. All you have to do is click "Get ... (view more)

Flock is getting some negative attention as of late. People wonder why they need to use a browser like Flock now that Performancing Firefox plugin allows them to blog from Firefox using many different blogging platforms. Recently, Flock's Chris ... Messina , addressed some of the Flock backlash on his blog. It's a good post . He said: Here's the thing. We've actually been pretty certain for some time that most of the features that we build into Flock will be eventually be ported back over to Firefox as extensions. Or become commodity features in other browsers. That's the way open source should ... (view more)

Protopage may want to be the new homepage (or for Firefox users, one of many homepages!), but it won't be mine any time soon. Protopage lets the user put personalized news, sticky notes, and bookmarks all on one page. This is very Web 2.0. The ... personalized news stories are RSS feeds, of course, and the sticky notes can be anything: a to-do list, reminders, whatever a user would like. An interesting thing about Protopage is how it shows off the power of page AJAX. It was fun to plan around with ( see my page ), but I don't need it. I don't need sticky notes on my homepage. I'm perfectly happy ... (view more)

Mercora has a cool offering called IMRadio for Google Talk . You can search, find and listen to the music of thousands of artists in near-CD quality sound. The music is provided by other Mercora users, disk jockeys and artists from all over the ... world through Google Talk. Mercora has a large music catalog that you can search. This will help you build your own music library by adding files, folders and songs that you like to listen to. Then invite your friends to listen to your collection -- you'll have a ton of fun! Read more tech news at SarahInTampa.com! (view more)

Have you ever seen the Server Code pages flash on your screen? So have I! In fact, I got curious as to what those three digit codes really mean. I was surprised to find so many. Anyway, I decided to make a list and share it with you, so here it is, ... the entire Web Server Code list. Print this out and save it for when you'll need it. 100-199 SRCs provide confirmation that a request was received and is being processed. (silent) 100 This is good. The request was completed and the process can move along. 101 Request to switch protocols (like from HTTP to FTP) was accepted. 200-299 SRCs report that ... (view more)

In Part 1 we talked about some general purpose text editors. All good tools and you really should have one on hand for use. But, since we're thinking of writing HTML code, why not use a Web Page Editor? These editors are designed specifically to ... make web page development easier. Some of them even provide a browser function that allows you to write a little and then look at it as though you were using your web browser with out loading it. There are a lot of them available, some are quite expensive and have a learning curve (time to learn) that is really long before you become proficient. I ... (view more)

It occurs to me that there are a lot of folks that, like me, enjoy using the computer. It becomes more than a fancy typewriter or a games machine or even a jukebox for playing music. We start thinking about how much we would like to make the ... computer do what we want. We want to 'program' the machine! Strangely enough, it doesn't take years of education at the college level to do that. There are tutorials and free software available that we can collect and use to become the magician. Not to mention the thousands of books that are sold in bookstores that cover the subject. So, exactly what ... (view more)