The announcement that I promised yesterday comes down to this - introducing TechNoose.com. TechNoose is a website in the 404TechSupport network. It will be publishing some of the hottest stories from around the tech industry. Its agility will allow it to follow the latest technology and consumer electronics-related stories. By setting up another site, it will allow … [Read more...]
Top 10 404TS articles in 2011
2011 ends today and what a year it has been. I can't say that I'm sad to see it go and I'm looking forward to fresh starts in 2012 and big new challenges. To wrap up the year, I am reflecting on the top articles here that brought well over half a million people to 404 Tech Support in 2011. I'm hoping visitors found the answers to their questions here and may have even … [Read more...]
Buy gift cards at a discount or trade in unwanted gift cards for cash
In one of those 'big number' moments, NPR reported that $41 billion is tied up in gift cards that haven't been redeemed since 2005. Another $27.8 billion is estimated to have been given as gift cards this holiday season. Along with discussing the unclaimed gift card money, they also offered suggestions of sites that allow you to trade in your gift cards for cash or if you are … [Read more...]
Browse the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library from your PC
When Amazon announced the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, it was a nice little perk to those Amazon Prime members whom also happen to own Kindles. It wasn't much to convince Kindle owners who weren't Prime members or Prime members that don't own Kindles that they were missing out on much of anything. The Kindle Owners' Lending Library page says you can choose from over 50,000 … [Read more...]
Doing More with RSS Feeds
The long awaited follow-up to my RSS Feed Basics post from a year ago, I present to you some ways to get more out of RSS feeds from around the world. RSS is typically thought of as a simple feature that almost every website should have (and it's really frustrating when they don't) that allows you to "subscribe" to that site and receive notices when the site updates. Heck, the … [Read more...]