If your local grocery store started selling toothpaste for 5 1/2 times the price you could buy it on the internet, would you keep buying toothpaste at the local store? Probably not $16 per tube for toothpaste doesn’t sound like much fun to me. Yes you are helping the local economy by buying the $16 toothpaste I understand that. But there is a tipping point of helping the local economy and hurting your pocketbook economy and you must be...
Beware of askpcwizards.com cold calling you – scam alert
If you were an auto mechanic and someone called you on your phone and claimed there were problems with your car, what would you think about that? Let’s say this person had you walk out to your car and look under the hood. Then over the phone he tried to point things out to you that were in bad shape. Then to top it off (if cars could plug into the internet) he wanted you to allow him to access your car remotely. Sounds like fun...
Quickly find your lost cell phone (locally lost)
You are late for an appointment and you can’t find your stupid cell phone. You know it is inside the house somewhere but you don’t know where. It’s happened to me numerous times and I’ve found a solution that works most of the time. Wheresmycellphone.com allows you to quickly hop onto the Internet, and their website will ring your phone. Just type in your cell phone number and it will make it ring, allowing you to...
Get your PC, Mac, or Android device back with free computer tracking software Prey
The best things in life are free as the saying goes, for proof of that I present to you Prey Project. How gratifying would it be if someone stole your laptop and a free piece of software gave you the ability to get a picture of the thief using it, and give police a name. Prey will also give you an approximate location, IP address, and lock your computer down. Prey Project is a free open source tracking software for your computer similar to...
Find music using googlemusicsearch.com and Google
I see a lot of people get into trouble when trying to get free software, music, etc on the internet. They download a torrent or find a site that promises free music, and before they know it they are hit with a fake Antivirus or worse. Over the years I have had fairly good luck using Google to find music, I am not condoning copyright stealing of music. There is a lot of music out there that is indeed free and the artists just want to get it out...