Screen savers on your computer used to be more popular and important than they are now. I remember when the flying Toasters were the coolest screen savers. Then I’ve seen the Matrix falling icons screen saver and a variety of others.

Sprint has released a new screen saver for their Now network that takes advantage of our quest for information and data. You can pull in your favorite sources of information you want to know about and see them presented on your screen when you’re not busy working. The service also pulls in data from many of the most popular …read more

With a show of hands, who likes mail-in rebates? Of course I can’t see it, but I imagine quite a few of you are raising your hands high in the air. Mail-in rebates are a royal pain in the rump. The fact is that the companies that offer them count on you not mailing them in.
I bought an HP Notebook last summer that had a $50 mail-in rebate. I mailed it in the first time and it was sent back saying that one of the numbers was illegible. So I rewrote it, printing very carefully and even took a picture …read more

I’ve discovered yet another feature that doesn’t exist (that I’m aware of) on my cellphone or anyone elses. Normally when I’m onsite with a client I’ll turn my cellphone ringer to completely silent. I don’t want it on vibrate either, that’s just annoying. I usually have the phone sitting right in front of me and notice it when the screen lights up, I then pick-up the phone and answer it.
What I’d like to be able to do is to have a secondary ringer that I can specify in certain situations. I know I can set specific ringers for different people …read more