It has been 90 days since I first bought my iPhone and the Otter Box to protect it.  I wrote a post about it in January, iPhone insurance aka OtterBox Defender. During this time I have probably dropped my phone more than 30 times.  I have never dropped my cell phone so many times in my whole life.  It must be related to one of Murphy’s Laws; the chance of dropping something increases with the cost of replacing it or something like that.  Here are a few of my thoughts about the Otter Box now that I’ve been living with it for a while? Questions and Answers: Would you buy an...

It has been about four weeks since I wrote about my personal fight against SPAM.  I have been using MailWasher Pro 6.5.3 as my primary tool against SPAM.  Of all the tools I’ve used so far, this one has performed better than expected. For the first three weeks I ran it in automatic read mode but disabled the automatic delete mode.  During this learning cycle I reviewed every choice that MailWasher made. It had a lot of learning to do.  Eventually I trusted it enough to know that it was identifying SPAM correctly without false positives.  A false positive SPAM is a ...

Some people are prejudiced against Facebook. They have a pre-conceived notion that it’s all a waste of time.  While it is true that a lot of people might spend excessive amounts of time on it, Facebook can be an effective social networking tool.   4 reasons to use Facebook It is one of the main methods of communication people use today. people have communication options post a public message on their own wall share pictures or videos post a message on a friend’s wall post an announcement or invitation comment on a post send a direct message – like email but...

Over the last couple of weeks, I noticed that many people try to complete jobs by doing everything at once instead of breaking the job into smaller manageable tasks. Many times they get stuck trying to figure out where to start. Some people get so overwhelmed with trying to start that they end up procrastinating.  This is especially true if the job isn’t time-critical in their eyes. If they don’t procrastinate and start working on whatever part of the job they see, they might eventually complete the job. It hinges on the dependencies of the job. Seeing the big picture is good....

I recently purchased instructional books that were supposed to help make a subject easier to learn.  It turns out the books had differing opinions on how to accomplish the task.  One book gave the directions but left out some vital information.  The other book used a different method and glossed over some basic details I needed to learn.  When I first purchased the books, I kind of knew what I wanted but I didn’t know exactly what I was looking for.  I just figured these books had a lot of examples, so they would be a good reference for the project I’m working on.  It...