Excellent camera review site – dpreview.com

I have been reading the reviews at this site for a long time now. It’s very informative and useful when trying to make a decision on which digital camera to buy. I always use this site to make comparisons before buying my cameras (I have a Canon A570 which I bought 18 months ago. I settled for that because I wanted to get one that uses regular AA batteries. Used this site to make comparisons)

 

 

Outlook 2007 tip : Delay that Send now button

Ever wanted to recall an email that you accidently sent? Sometimes you reliaze that you sent it to the wrong person (especially with the Auto-Complete feature when typing the persons name in the To: field) or that there are grammatical errors / spelling mistakes in the email you just sent? . I’ve had that happen to me many times.

Well, here’s a good tip that I found on the Microsoft Outlook 2007 blog.

“Delayed send is a simple idea: When you hit Send, Outlook automatically retains the message in your Outbox folder for a short length of time (for instance, one minute) before sending. Most times you won’t notice the delay. And if you hit Send and then realize you made a mistake, you can go to your Outbox, open up the message, modify it, and then re-send it – and the recipients never see the mistake.”

 

Make Microsoft pay – use i’m

You can make a difference. Just add the i’m logo and sign up at the microsoft i’m site to donate to a charity of your choice. Each time you send an IM, Microsoft will donate a portion to the organization you chose. Finally, we can all make Microsoft pay.

 

“The i’m™ Initiative from Microsoft™ makes helping social causes easy. Every time you use Windows Live™ Messenger or Windows Live Hotmail®, our free webmail service, we’ll share a portion of our advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective social cause organizations. Exactly how much will we share with our partner causes? Well, that’s up to you and the growing masses of registered i’m Initiative users. The more messages you send, the more we give.”

 

 

Byways to visit

National Scenic Byways has a list of interesting and scenic roads to visit. Do you live near any of these? I’ve always wanted to drive some of these but there aren’t many near where I live 😦   -and with the prices of a gallon of gas nowadays, I don’t think I’ll be driving to see any of these in the near future. So the next best thing is to explore it online…

 

 

 

 

Choose the best seat before you fly – SeatGuru

Here is a site that I found sometime backand bookmarked it. It’s SeatGuru. It lists the seating plans for different airlines, plane types and even recommendations on which seats are the best. It’s pretty useful when you want to find a seat that has legroom and not near the toilets !!!

 

 

 

 

Do you know what your PC is doing ? You need Wireshark !

This is a  useful tool that I use almost everyday – for work and at home, and it’s free.

I can run WireShark and analyze packets and see what the problem is or what my PC is doing. It’s not for the everyday user and you have to be pretty technical. There are a lot of tutorials and web sites that teach you how to use it. I highly recommend it if you think you are having problems with your PC or might have a virus.

Below is a link to Wireshark.

 

 

 

Free reliable Anti-Virus – AVG Anti-Virus

I’ve used other Anti-virus before but have found that they tend to slow down your PC quite a bit. Also, they have other add-ons that I don’t want to pay for. All I want is for a basic anti-virus program that will scan my PC and also my incoming emails and attachments.

For two years now, I’ve been using the free AVG Anti-Virus and found that it does it’s job very well. I haven’t had any virus problems and I like the price – free ! According to their web site, they have 70 million users already. Also have a couple of awards from Cnet and others and they are ICSA certified.

The link below takes you directly to the download page.