Email and messaging

Stop spam: Spam filtering software

Dear Friend, are you sick and tired of SPAM in your mailbox? Want rock-solid insider secrets to save $$$? This IS too good to be true, right? Stop email with ANNOYING capitalizations and word m/sspe11ings that are blatant attempts to evade spam filters. No more wading through fifty JUNK messages to find the single important […]

Print On Demand (POD): What is it? What are the problems and benefits?

POD is a printing technology where you pay a company, give them a document, and that company prints and binds the document into a book. There are advantages and disadvantages to this process. Due to the amount of money you’ll be spending and the affect it may have on your future writing career, pay close […]

Free instant messengers are not all alike. Try Trillian or Gaim.

The year 1965 brought us some wonderful things, like AstroTurf. But it also brought us the movie “The Human Duplicators”, a movie similar in ambition to the block of cheese you’ve left in the fridge a few months too long. Starring Richard Kiel (James Bond’s nemesis “Jaws”) and Hugh Beaumont (The dad in “My Three […]

Skype: Make free Internet computer-to-computer calls from anywhere to anyone

Are you sick of long-distance phone charges? Do you make a lot of phone calls? Are you confused and frustrated with your phone plan, and the fact you have to worry about daytime, night time and weekend minutes? Well, knowing fully I sound like a 2 a.m. infomercial, your worries are over! It does sound […]

PBEM (Play By Email) Games, Recommendations and Resources

Sitting around a table, you take a swig of caffeine and roll the dice. Making your move, you munch handfuls of heavily-salted snacks. I love playing games, and not just because of caffeine and salt. Tabletop, RPG, video and card, all game types are wonderful ways to pass the time with friends. But I rarely […]

Answering machine software for your PC does even more

“Nobody’s home! Nobody’s home!” These original and inspired lyrics are to be sung in time with the opening bars of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony (you know: “da da da DUM!”) These prerecorded answering machine messages were sold on TV and store shelves, right next to cassettes of Phil Collins and Madonna. This was part of a […]