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What Are Pathtags?  A Pathtag is a single-sided custom metal tag about the size and weight of a U.S. Quarter. Pathtags are made from a solid iron base and are plated in a protective colored plating of either silver, gold, copper, or black nickel. Pathtags are personal...

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...