Technology Tips

I want to express my sincere and deep appreciation for the thousands of comments you all leave in response to the published articles at IdahoFallz.com. Those comments generate many great discussions here. People sometimes ask me why I put so much time into fostering this online community, and one of them is the excitement I [...]

Firefox is the superior browser to Internet Explorer (IE) 6 or 7, but occasionally some websites have particular code that only works in IE. Those sites are few and far between, but they do complicate the browsing experience by forcing you to launch IE instead of another Firefox tab.
For example, I can use Yahoo! [...]

I have a quick but powerful technology tip this week: how to quickly scale your text larger and smaller. This works great in your web browser and in Microsoft Word, and you do not have to dig through any pull-down menus, either.

All you have to do is hold the “Control” key down on your keyboard [...]

I’m glad Microsoft is frequently administering Windows XP with automatic updates, it generally makes for a more secure and less glitchy computer. I get frustrated, though, when I leave my computer with several browser tabs and documents open, and return later to find Windows Update automatically restarted my computer. I know the updates are important, [...]

PC Magazine recently released rankings on broadband ISP speeds. I generally disregard these rankings because they usually rely on user opinions of their speeds. My ears perked up when I heard on the Cranky Geeks podcast how this ranking was based on actual calculated data.
PC Mag offered a small utility called SurfSpeed that calculated [...]