Looking for something to do this weekend? Have you done so much around the house that you’re out of DIY projects? Want to know how to make something weird, odd, or unusual? You can find solutions to any of the above at the brilliant Instructables.com, an interactive repository of inspired do-it-yourself projects. Projects include step-by-step photos and instructions, and many photos, like those on Flickr,...

Well, someone’s done it. Someone has finally invented a way to transport cupcakes! No messy icing all over aluminum foil, and no smashing and smushing up all of your hard decorating work. And wouldn’t you know it - the Cupcake Courier was invented by a mom. Jennifer Gunn, mother of two in southern Cali, invented the Cupcake Courier after getting fed up with all of the cupcake carrying caveats we...

Cool gadget alert! If you’re looking to get into the world of MP3 players (I was late to the game, I admit), I can now personally recommend this nifty little ilo MP3 player from Wal-Mart. So here are the product details with my commentary (because I love to make commentary!) in bold italic - which is quite ugly, I might add, but I think you can at least see what the marketing people wrote vs. what I wrote. Slim,...

Squidoo is a newish online community where anyone can easily build a page - called a lens - on any topic, idea, product, or cause that he or she is passionate about. Lenses help their finders get a perspective they cannot get from computer-selected (and often irrelevant) search results. People who create and maintain lenses at Squidoo are called lensmasters. Lensmasters share their knowledge and expertise,...

even more insidious that virus infections are spyware and adware. do yourself a favor and download and USE these two programs on a regular basis. ad-aware (not ada-ware) spybot search and destroy both of these programs can be found at www.download.com or you can find ad-aware at www.lavasoft.de or spybot at www.spybot.info/en/index.html when looking for spybot on download.com - search for “spybot”...

i started my computer industry work back in 1990 when many people in the industry would have been somewhat excited to get a real live virus on their computer. these days, it’s amazing to me the number of folks who do not invest in simple virus protection - or worse, who buy the programs and fail to keep them up to date. every day, my FIX mail is full of email rejections notices - you know, they say “your...