It’s always nice to see companies listen to customer feedback, and use those suggestions to give their customers what they really want. IDrive-E recently announced new features that will really capture the hearts of small business geeks. The online backup site now allows users to create and manage multiple accounts via a web interface. That’s a very nice tool for perhaps, a geeky consultant who is assisting two or more customers in using online backup. Or a tech guru who managers several different locations. And now there’s IDrive-S...

As I alluded to on Simple Kind Of Life, there will be a contest here with geeky prizes to win on June 1st. I’ve actually already bought what I’ll be giving away, and I’m sitting here at my laptop eyeballing it right now. The good news about my contest is that it will be easy to enter, easy to get extra entries, and anyone can win – regardless of where you live. Look for a big announcement here on June 1st! (If anyone wants to blog about the contest, and perhaps speculate what I’ll be giving away, I’ll hook you up come...

My sister got called out of town unexpectedly last week. She doesn’t have a laptop, so until she was able to make her way to a computer with free internet access at the library, she was offline. And even when she got to the library, she didn’t have access to any of her bookmarks, so she couldn’t blog, or pay bills, or do anything that she’d normally take care of online. Now, if I was in the same boat, I’m lucky enough to have a laptop to take with me. However, we’ve got a computer upstairs, and more than once I’ve...

I’m definitely not the scientific type. I barely understand some of the technical things contained in my brain. (Funny how I can remember the theme song to The Brady Bunch, and all of the characters on Gilligan’s Island, but I forget simple HTML that I use all the time…) Anyway, you don’t need to have a scientific mind or be extra smart to read and understand these cartoon laws of physics. I spent many a Saturday morning in my childhood watching the Warner Brothers cartoons (they’re WAY better than most of the crap on these...

The big news over at PayPerPost this week is PPP Direct. Instead of cruising the marketplace over at PayPerPost, trying to find a post that will work for your blog, bloggers can be approached directly by an advertiser who came across their blog, and liked it. Whereas ReviewMe charges a 50% markup, and other paid-to-blog companies charge 35%, PayPerPost charges only a 10% fee for this service. PayPerPost has put together a great video overview of their new PPP direct here. (Hmm..who IS that blogger? She’s so cute!) My first question was, why should...

One of the guest bloggers on the Sponsored Reviews blog posted a big long list of blog directories that you can submit your blog to this week. The list is arranged by Alexa and PR ranks. He left me out, so I left a comment on the entry telling him about the PR 5 (Alexa 13431!) directory here at GeekySpeaky, and he edited his entry to include it. Nice! My site is the 5th lowest Alexa score on there, so I’m pretty proud of myself. I’ve seen quite a few submissions from it too, so I’m impressed with how many people are coming over from...

At work, I deal with a lot of spreadsheets and reports – some that I create, and some that I maintain for other people. I’ve never deleted any of my Excel files or Crystal reports in error, but I’ve come really close to doing it. I know our IT department has a way for us to recover deleted emails, but I’m not so sure about deleted files. I’m so paranoid about losing something, that I not only store important files and folders on my own drive, but also our shared server for the office. I guess I don’t really need all...

What a great blogger we’ve got to feature today! Tami has been with Supahstar Saturday since the start – in fact, she was the very first person to jump in and participate. About time she was featured, don’t you think? Tami blogs over at Miss Write. She’s a writer, and like me, a voracious reader. Why do you blog? I blog to express my self on various fronts pretty much without restraint other than what might be moral in my opinion. There are a lot of forums dedicated to the various aspects of my life that I like to be verbal and...

When you work in an office with open cubicles, it’s really not cool to use an old school radio at your desk, without using headphones. We’ve got a new consultant sitting catty corner from me, and apparently, she’s clueless about office decorum and the unwritten rules of the workplace. Not only is she playing a radio (which isn’t THAT loud, but it’s loud enough that all of the cubes around here can here it), she’s playing this annoying station. I’m not even sure what station it is, but all of the music so far has...

In this day and age of outsourcing and expansion, most companies seem to be focused on tapping certain specific markets. For us, it’s Asia – we do a lot of business there and there’s even talk if of outsourcing some work to employees in India. (Don’t get me started on that particular topic.) For BackgammonMasters.com, the place to be is Latin America. BackgammonMasters is the online backgammon site that features a talking tiger (named Jean Claude) as its online spokesperson. And while they’re expanding worldwide, they’re...