Type in “Jambalaya” in Google Search and you will get a slew of recipes. It is a dish. But when it comes to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or the iPad, it is also a recipe for a fast paced, brain crunching word game. Now, we have all seen our share of word...

Sound Sunday is your weekly source of legal and free music downloads. This is the final edition of the year 2012 and a chance to say thank you! Thank you to all artists who share their music, thank you to everyone who support them by buying their music or...

For those of us lucky enough to not live in the middle of the city or to have a little land to call our own, the garden is often the most neglected part of the family home. Most fall into the category of either a complete mess, or the whole thing is...

Did you get an Android smartphone for Christmas?  You can bet that the number of Android phones sold during the holiday period has skyrocketed and all those new phone owners will be looking for some nice new shiny apps to install, to get the most out of...

With 2012 coming to a close, it’s that time of the year again when major tech companies share their year in review with us. With Facebook, Twitter and Google, these retrospectives are always fascinating because they give a tremendous amount of...

As the year comes to close and a new one begins, it’s a good time to make fresh goals or carry out tasks we have put off for quite some time. The following list is my personal recommendations for tech related tasks—from the vitally important,...

Having your own website has a number of pretty cool perks. For one thing, if you have a decent web host plan, the odds are good that you can try installing and testing all sorts of neat web-based applications that you can host on your own web...

Having your own website has a number of pretty cool perks. For one thing, if you have a decent web host plan, the odds are good that you can try installing and testing all sorts of neat web-based applications that you can host on your own web...

Google frequently holds experimental field trials to test out new search features and then adds or discards them depending upon user response. The latest one is about finding your stuff faster. The field trial that’s on right now introduces you to...

Improper use of English is one of my pet peeves. I’m not a full-blown “grammar nazi” (a colloquialism for someone very strict with grammar) but it does irk me. An exception can be made for those who don’t use English natively, but blatant...