Geekfoolery

This Web 2.0 thing is getting more and more useful. Now here’s a web page, Media-Convert.com, that will convert almost any media file you may have–image, sound, presentation, ringtone, and others–and convert it to another format, all from a webpage. No software to download, no registration.
This is now added to the growing list of usable […]

Google announced the release of a Mac version of it’s Desktop Search tool this week. It’s beta, of course, though remember that beta in the Googleverse is Gold Master Version 3.7 for most other software companies, so download away.
The thing about Google’s many services is that it’s like you’ve gotten a free pass to buffet […]

Apple’s series of “I’m a PC… and I’m a Mac” ads, if you haven’t seen them, they personify a PC and Mac the way they would look if they were, well, John Hodgeman and Justin Long. The PC’s beige box comes to life in a relatively boring brown suit and tie, with John Hodgeman’s dry […]

Another free web-based office suite has entered the fray where already Thinkfree, Zoho, Google Docs and Spreadsheets are already trying to stake out a claim in the nascent field of web-based office software. The new guy on is Peepel, and at first glance, we’ve got a word processor, a spreadsheet, a calculator, and reportedly additional […]

Most websites that get any kind of regular traffic are pretty well designed. The ongoing competition for visits and hits and click-throughs promotes a healthy interest on the part of the website owners to clean up the layout, put the important stuff where it’s easy to see and find, and generally try not to annoy […]

Years ago, I was one of those guys who answered the technical support line, “How can I help you?” It didn’t pay a lot, but I was pretty good at it, and I enjoyed being able to help people who for one reason or another couldn’t figure out how to fix the problem they were […]