I recently purchased a first generation Macbook laptop for $429. I added a couple upgrades and am now at the grand total of $500. I recently got to thinking – How does my Macbook compare to the latest and greatest Macbook which costs more than double what I paid? Would I get anywhere near double [...]

I received a call from somebody wanting to build their own website so I thought I would try to break it down in a step by step process. Here goes: First you need a domain name. Even though I’m not a big yahoo fan, yahoo does provide a pretty simply interface and you can avoid [...]

I signed up for Amazon Prime on a whim. A friend had mentioned it to me years ago but I never followed through on it until just recently. I order a fair amount from Amazon.com but have usually been able to wait the several days delivery that accompanies free shipping. I tried the “free” Amazon [...]

POP or Post Office Protocol is how most of us check and send our email. The problem with the POP standard occurs when we use more than one computer. You can easily set both computers to sync all of your incoming mail by setting the preferences to leave mail on the server for a certain [...]

Here’s one of my favorite tricks for getting software. I needed a copy of Adobe Acrobat. Problem is a new version runs $299. On a whim, I went over to ebay.com to see what was available. And we get – Here’s an older version of Adobe Acrobat Standard starting at $9.99 with shipping of $6.99. [...]

One of my attorney friends likes to often state, “The only money you’ll ever see is money up front.” When clients suggest that they pay his retainer in monthly installments, he responds, “You can make monthly payments to your credit card company. They have already got convenient monthly billing to your mailing address set up.” [...]