Category: Useful Web Sites

  • MLB’s Bid to Control Fantasy Baseball May Have Backfired on All Pro Sports Leagues

    Reading Time: < 1 minute The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article in its Tuesday edition about a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could have a profound impact on online fantasy sports. The article says that Major League Baseball and the Players Association have been fighting for three years to limit the number of…

  • Gadget Links: Post Memorial Day Weekend Edition

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Sixty-Six on Daring Fireball: “The idea that Apple now sells two-thirds of retail computers costing $1000 or more is simply stunning. I (along with many others) have long argued that a simplistic “overall PC market share” number has never been a good metric for gauging the Mac’s success because the…

  • Twitter is Basically Unusable When Working Behind a SonicWall Content Filter

    Reading Time: 3 minutes On Wednesday, I visited the Panera in Levittown, PA to sip a diet soda and use their WiFi. This is supposed to be an amenity for customers. I had never taken advantage of it before. I saw a Twitter post (aka “tweet”) from someone I am following in my Twitterific window,…

  • Recommending the700Level.com for It’s Coverage of the Philadelphia Sports Scene

    Reading Time: 2 minutes If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I attended my first Princeton Mac User Group meeting on Tuesday night rather than stay home and watch Game 3 of the Flyers – Penguins series. This is undoubtedly considered a sacrilege in my community, particularly because I am so involved in…

  • Gadget Links: Running Amok Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutes How to Eat Healthily at Top Chain Restaurants on Lifehacker: “The food experts at Health magazine have scoured the menus at popular restaurant chains in search of the healthiest foods on the menu, rounding up several healthy menu options at otherwise unhealthy chains.” They found reasonably healthy choices at Denny’s, Ruby…

  • Gadget Links: Web 2.0 Overload Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutes How to link Twitter to Facebook – A Twitter Tutorial on AJVayerchuck.com: A concise explanation of how to install the Twitter app within Facebook and allow it to update your Facebook status. Clutter War II: Attack of the Giant Baby on 43Folders: “…you might be able to guess where my head…

  • Tour de Georgia Begins Monday

    Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the biggest annual stage races in the United States begins Monday: The 2008 Tour de Georgia, this year presented by AT&T. I won’t be attending the TdG this year, but I have attended it in the past and I have some friends who do an excellent job covering…

  • Tax Day Finding: Safari Not Supported By Some Important Tax Authorities and Service Providers

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Today is April 15, a date that quite a few different tax authorities in the United States have picked as the deadline for filing annual tax returns. I had to file several returns today, including: U.S. Federal Income Tax for my wife and me Pennsylvania State Income Tax for my wife…

  • Gadget Links: 13 Miles Away Isn’t Close Enough Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Ode To A Burrito — Chipotle Mexican Grill on Fast Company: “Good food wrapped in a socially responsible message has created legions of Chipotle fans — and a superhot business. Acquired by McDonald’s in 1998 when there were only 14 Chipotles, the company went public in 2006 with 500 stores and…