Following the announcement in July that effective September 1st for current Netflix customers, the price to maintain both instant streaming and 1 disc-at-a-time would jump up to $15.98 each month. While you might get a bit of an extension depending on your billing cycle, it would be prudent to login and check your account if you wanted to cancel before the price hike. Are you … [Read more...]
MonoPrice.com – Quality Cables At Low Prices
A lot of people get upset about the high prices for cables. HDMI cables, network cables, and especially Monster-brand cables always seem to be higher priced than what people want to pay for them. In addition to problems with the prices, I more frequently have a problem with their availability. If I can find the cables locally, I seem to only have the options of 3 feet or 6 feet … [Read more...]
OdoPlus and IOGraph – Mouse Tracking Applications
OdoPlus and IOGraph are two separate applications that track your mouse behavior. You can see how much distance your mouse covers where you click the most and where your mouse travels. For the rest of the details, you'll have to check out the guest article I wrote over at Freewaregenius. … [Read more...]
Blogger Joins The List of Google Products With The Google+ Redesign
Announced on the Google Blog today, bloggers using Blogger to do their blogging can now opt-in to have the new interface on the admin back-end. Joining other products and sign-in pages to get the new design, Blogger includes a stream-lined interface and an overview page to see blog traffic stats. In addition, some other word and smaller design changes are covered in the related … [Read more...]
OpenDNS, Google, and CDNs Announce Global Internet Speedup Initiative
Not too long ago OpenDNS was very upset with Google when they offered their Public DNS service. OpenDNS, a service I recommended previously, can be used instead of the DNS servers your ISP uses to give you a faster resolution of domain names to IP addresses. These days I will use either OpenDNS or Google Public DNS when troubleshooting issues or trying to optimize performance. … [Read more...]