Category Archives: Technology
Blog Overhaul
A while back I upgraded our blog software and last night I finished the job by upgrading our theme to enable even more of the features. I’ll still need to do some tweaking of the style but I’m pretty happy … Continue reading
Fair Warning
I enjoy helping people. However, one of my pet peeves is when people don’t at least try to help themselves with the tools available to them. One of those tools is the Internet, and more specifically Google Search. Yes, Google … Continue reading
Want To Be Friends?
A while back I signed up on Facebook just to see what it was. According to their website, Facebook claims to be, “… a social utility that connects you with the people around you.” The key there is “social”. The … Continue reading
Caught on Camera
I’ve been meaning to blog about the addition of Google Street View for Austin since they added it a couple of months ago. The way Street View works is… well you can read about it here if you don’t know … Continue reading
A Little Down-Time
You might have noticed that drozmonkey.com was down since Saturday night. The short story is that my web host sent out an email at 4 PM which said that night they were moving ALL of their web hosting to new Quad-core Xeon servers. The … Continue reading
Is That Your Best Arguement?
We recently saw a new “Get a Mac” TV commercial that made Jenny and I look at each other and say, huh? It was their “Misprint” ad where ‘PC’ is calling PC World magazine to correct the fact that in a … Continue reading
First Impressions
A couple of months ago a buddy got his new iMac delieved to work. He let us watch as he unboxed it and booted it for the first time. Apple knows what they are doing when it comes to the … Continue reading
Holiday Inventory
I know some of you out there have been waiting for the full story on Black Friday this year since I had mentioned before that I was planning to camp out at Best Buy. This year I was shopping for a … Continue reading
Gmail Gets IMAP
I’ve been using Google’s Gmail for a while and really like it. It has plenty of storage, an excellent spam filter, a good web interface, and access via POP3. Oh yeah, its free, too. POP3 is a protocol that lets … Continue reading
Black Friday
If you don’t know what Black Friday is you can get the low-down here. For me, it started two years ago when I was flipping through the Best Buy ad on Thanksgiving afternoon. They had a super cheap desktop PC - $250 including monitor – … Continue reading
