Did you know that many people use their PayPal account for everyday transactions with Amazon, eBay and many other on-line retailers? So I asked myself, “Can I send an invoice to someone using my personal PayPal account?” With a business account it’s a fairly easy decision to send an invoice to a client, but with a […]
Cool YouTube Darkness Apparently Google is working on a not-so-secret Dark Mode for YouTube and you can activate it yourself in just three easy steps. Personally, I find a darker background to be easier on the eyes and certainly hope that Google incorporate this feature into YouTube on a permanent basis. How to Activate Dark […]
Netflix Is Now a Dating App Without doubt, Netflix is the world’s most popular media streaming service; it’s easy to use, offers an amazing variety of content and until very recently used a tried and tested five-star rating system that made sense and was logical for viewers to relate to. All that has now changed […]
Free Information My late Father dabbled in genealogy and my Father-In-Law enjoys genealogy as well. I am continuing where my Father left off and find it very interesting, as do many other people I am sure. Therefore, when I hear of genealogy sites to gather more information, I listen intently. Imagine my surprise, I had […]
Subscription Service I’m assuming that you have a PayPal account and know how to make payments. But what if you pay for a subscription service that deducts a set amount from your account every month. I subscribe to a service where I pay every three months and get a notice from PayPal saying I can […]
A Weird Site Redesign A few weeks ago I tuned into Netflix to catch up on Henry VIII and his bodice-busting antics in The Tudors only to find that the good people at Netflix had seen fit to ruin the interface and for me to emit a loud what the….f***! It’s worth mentioning at this […]
Shopping around My recent article, Five Reasons Why Microsoft Store Sucks, not only highlighted some of the shortcomings of that particular online store, but also made reference to other means of obtaining keys for software, notably games. I found myself in a kind of Catch 22 situation when I wanted to buy a certain […]
Converting an Image to Text I was cleaning up my computer by backing up some older documents and other stuff by and then deleting them from my system. I came across a humorous graphic called, “15 Most Computer Illiterate People Ever. How Is It Possible To Be This Clueless?“. I don’t remember the source of […]
Book Nerd Confession Time I am a Book Nerd. With a capital “B” and a capital “N.” I wholeheartedly embrace my nerdiness and am only slightly apologetic for knowing what is going on in TV Land. I only watch NCIS on TV because I think Mark Harmon is a real hottie. My husband and I […]
Word clouds are a fun and innovative way to transform a collection of ordinary words into an illustration. It works by using combinations of font sizes and colors to arrange a group of words into an image which can then be used to illustrate a website, letterhead, signature, logo, homework, whatever. *No specialized software required […]
Puzzle Prime is a relatively new site dedicated to providing a wide range of quality puzzles, games, brain teasers, and optical illusions suitable for all ages and levels of proficiency. The site is the result of collaboration between a small group of math and puzzle lovers who have the following to say about why they […]
If you spend enough time online, sooner or later you’ll wish you had a disposable eMail account, or, a way to track whether or not someone has “shared” your eMail address. Maybe you want to subscribe to a mailing list for a weekly newsletter about collecting antique thimbles. Perhaps you want to sign up for […]