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Geocaching and NASA head to Mars with the Perseverance Rover Grab your spacesuits, geocachers, because the first ever interplanetary trackable is about to take off. That’s right, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is trackable. And you’ll be able to log it!...

If you’ve heard of Google Keep, perhaps you don’t realize that it’s more capable than you expect. It’s one of the most focused and useful apps in Google’s arsenal!

Show of hands: Have you ever heard of the Internet? I think some of you have. [smile] I have been developing web sites since the 1990s, from pure html coded sites, through numerous iterations of development products (anyone remember Netscape's "built-in" development...

My Wordpress clients ask me about the emails they receive that notify them of Pingbacks from one of their posts. Here's how this happens: I post something on my blog that someone else likes. That person posts something on her...

Twitter has been around since 2006, and I posted my first tweet early on in 2007. It wasn't earth shattering, but I did handle the new idea of Twitter with elegance and sagacity, and got my point across in a mere 16 characters: Click Here to see my First Tweet I...

Ever since I started using the telephone (back when we only had to dial 7 numbers for most calls!), I knew that the person on the other end was as near as a few milliseconds away. Of course, I never thought of "milliseconds" back then - our voices were carried across...

by Marc Silverman (circa 1995) (This piece was originally written and published in 1995 for the Mac Street Journal, the New York Macintosh User Group's printed newsletter. The Internet was barely known at that time, and the term "cell phone" was yet to become part of...

Tags - Not Just For Graffiti Anymore! Bar Codes are so retro! Now we're all using QR Code tags - the little matrix of black squares and shapes that are popping up on magazine articles, food and beverage packaging, and soon, no doubt, on somebody's forehead. It's...

  Most people want to know where their money's coming from. Some people, however, want to know where it's going. I get to know both! There's a web site that uses the full power of the Internet, and the power of its users, to let anyone track and analyze the...

It's My Birthday (And I'll Lie if I Want To! New Year’s Day 2009 came in with a few added surprises: Automated birthday wishes from a couple of web sites, and even some personal birthday messages from Facebook friends who I already know in real life. But my birthday...

I knew about Skype – it's an online application that lets anyone make audio and video contact from computer to computer as long as each person has Skype installed and running. You could use it to make Skype "calls" to and from anywhere in the world for free. I tried...

Fly Me To Your Room Pictures on the Wing These days, digital photos are ubiquitous. And not only that, they're EVERYWHERE. In your cell phone, in your digital camera, in your computer, even in your iPods or other PDAs. They're everywhere for you to enjoy, but sharing...