Jane Talks Tech!

Despite my nickname as "Bootleg Jane", when I find a company that earns my trust, I stick by them i.e. I buy products from there. A case (or two) in point: Amazon and the IDM company that makes UltraEdit. About 2 days ago, I had to reformat my laptop due to a botched driver installation of my new HP Officejet J6480 which is a story for another day, (perhaps today?). Sadly, my last 'file' backup was over a month ago while my last computer backup was much more recently. However, for some reason, Microsoft made it so ...

Okay, here's a rant: I'm thisclose to switching to Google Chrome from Mozilla Firefox. As a matter of fact, I would switch if not for the fact that Chrome was responsible for me having to reformat my computer several weeks ago (seriously), I would. However, I'm writing this post because I think I may have the culprit. Caveat: Umm, I know zilch about the innards about web applications, but I can, at least, run unscientific 'tests' to narrow down the source of such crashes. Here are the various issues:...

So, I'm really just getting into the spirit of using add-ins with Outlook. An interesting feature of my life is the fact that my email contacts and my real-life contacts don't have a huge overlap. I'm somewhat introverted so plugins that tout a huge bunch of social networking features don't go over too well with me. Nevertheless, I'm currently giving two add-ins I've heard much about: Plaxo and Xobni....

Many thanks to Gottabemobile.com for hosting this contest. I hope my video gets picked although the odds are not very good due to the fact that it's a random selection. My only regret from this (if I lose) will be that my painstaking video might have been in vain. Nevertheless, I'm glad I took time out to make that short video because it forced me to use the tools I had available to make something that I am proud of. Here's to more experiments!