Here’s a great solution for a temporary email account, called 10 minute mail. If you guard your regular email to prevent spammers from finding it, you probably don’t want to hand it out every time you’re required to register to use a website, or provide an email for confirmation. Using a Hotmail or Yahoo account requires jumping through hoops and providing personal information, not to mention, registering for an email account there takes time. And if you hand THAT email out every time you register somewhere, soon it will become full of...

My comment spam on all of my blogs is handled by Akismet. If you’re a WordPress blogger, this is without a doubt, THE musthave plugin. You won’t have to deal with your inbox flooded with spam comments to moderate – Akismet is a huge timesaver. It will hold any suspected spam comments in a queue for you to review or delete, much like comment moderation on Wordpress, but you won’t get emails for each suspected spam comment. Each comment is run through a spam test. You don’t need to ever upgrade Akismet, because it’s...

Have your noticed all of the people walking around wearing Bluetooth headsets? It looks like we’re all becoming Borg. Personally, it’s not for me. I’m not that much of a geek that I have to wear my phone on my ear. I prefer to hold my cell phone and talk, because then people can actually see I’m on a cell phone. When people walk around talking to themselves, I always wonder if they’re talking to the voices in their head, or wearing a Bluetooth headset. My nephew wears his ALL the time. He even kept it on at his parents...

We had planned to buy our new Playstation 2 system at Sam’s Club. We don’t have a membership there, but our friends Russ & Tammy too. Russ told me that Sam’s had a great package deal on a PS2 that included a memory card and an extra controller, and it was a good savings bundle, rather than purchasing those items seperately. Last night he called me from Sam’s Club, and they still have a PS2 bundle, but now it includes games instead of the extra accessories. I think now I’ll just wait to see if PS2 goes on sale, and buy...

I was in Best Buy on Black Friday scoping out the deals. I ended up getting a few PS2 games for the family – Family Guy for my husband and The Sims and Harry Potter for my girls. I’m putting Grand Theft Auto on my list, and my son wants Lego Star Wars – The Original Trilogy. Anyway…we stopped by the digital camera display, and there was a couple looking at the camera I just bought, the Sony Cyber-shot N2. The touch screen seemed to be a big confusing to them, and being that it was Black Friday,there wasn’t a salesman to be...

My friend Justin posted earlier this week that Sony is only shipping 200,000 PS3 units to the US this Christmas season. The news originally came from Bloomberg. They’ve stated that Sony came nowhere near it’s goal of shipping 400,000 units for the Playstation 3 November 17th debut, thanks to a shortage of a laser used in the PS3 Blu-Ray DVD player. “We shipped as many PlayStation 3 units into the North American market as possible and continue our efforts in supplying systems to retailers nationwide through the holidays,” —Sony...

If you’re looking for a great plugin for WordPress to help you add photos to your entries, I highly recommend PhotoPress. I originally found it on the Target Culture blog that I contribute too, and I’ve now added it to all of my blogs. Initially, I started out using the photo insert tool that is available in the WYSISYG (what you see is what you get) editor in Wordpress. I wasn’t very happy with the way it formatted the pictures, and I stopped using the editor due to it deleting code when I tried to embed YouTube videos, so I was in search...

Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, and known in some circles as Assington, is taking 2 months off, because he’s burned out. “Maybe his skin is just getting thin. Arrington recently was accused of having conflicts of interest for accepting advertising from and writing about companies that he advises or invests in.” –Elinor Mills Arrington was quoted as saying, “All I promise is to give my honest opinion every time I write, regardless of whether there is a conflict of interest.” Hmm…doesn’t that sound vaguely...

I just wanted to say thank you to all of you who have popped in since this site launched. I feel great that so many of you are able to learn something from what I’m sharing here. My friend Cass has been a frequent commenter and my post on using the simple tags plugin for WordPress inspired her to install it and start using it. Speaking of Cass, she’s launched a new blog too, over at Midlife Musings, where she rants and raves, and even makes light of Google Adsense on her blog.

What is SEO? Also called search engine optimization, it’s the process of increasing visitors to your website by upping your rankings in the search engine results. The higher a website ranks in the search engine results, the more likely that your site will be visited by users. Think about it – when you look up something on Google, do you normally choose one of the sites listed on the first page? Or 16 pages in? 99% of users only visit the search results given to them on the first page, so being there is essential to getting traffic to your...