Coming to Terms with the New Gmail: 5 Tips to Smooth the Way

So Gmail has decided that it’s updating its layout and there has been a loud and mighty outcry against it. Aside from complaints about primarily aesthetic things such as the replacement of handy text buttons by somewhat hard to parse icons, there are some more valid complaints about the difficulty in actually using the new Gmail. It’s hard to find things that were at your fingertips with the old layout.

In this article I’m going...
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10 Reasons You Should Get a Bidet.

For probably the last 10 years or so at least one toilet in my house has had a bidet attachment. Currently all the toilets in my house have one. The one I recommend is the Ace HS Bidet which is less than $100 and very easy to install. I wouldn’t splurge for the warm water one as quite honestly, those particular nerves don’t notice the cold that much. And I say that as someone...
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Handy Apps and Widgets for Android Phones

I have spent a lot of time over the last few days updating my new Motorola Droid 3 phone and in doing so I had to reconsider all the apps and widgets that I had on my old Droid and decide if they were worth putting on the new phone, as well as what new things I wanted to have.

I decided to compile a list of some of the apps and widgets that...
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Links

If you’re looking for links to other sites, here is where you’ll find it!

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Things I've Bought on Amazon

Amazon has a nifty widget that will display all the media (books, movies, music) you’ve bought from them. It’s kind of weird to look back and see things I bought almost 10 years ago, but it’s also a reminder of things like “oh hey, that was a cool book! I should go reread that…”

Now not everything is stuff I bought for myself. Some of these things were bought as gifts and such, but it’s sort...
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The World's Worst Songs To Have Stuck In Your Head

Warning: This Page May Cause Brain Damage, Insanity, And/Or Unpopularity With Co-Workers and Friends.

Everyone knows that some songs are just… stickier than others. They can be great songs! It doesn’t mean the songs are bad…(though it sure makes it worse when they are)… but you can only have a song… or a verse…or a single line play through your head for so many hours in a row before you are ready to...
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LOL? the Long Ongoing List

The standard chat environment abbreviation “LOL” is commonly thought to mean “Laugh(ing) Out Loud,” but how do we that is what it means? Just because someone tells us so? Might there be another, secret, meaning? Let’s examine the (viewer submitted) possibilities….

Humorous note: back in the day when this page was updated automatically by viewer submission, some brilliant soul Left this: “U r so stuped it means Laugh Out Loud” Ah… the irony.

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