Category: Tech

This is the email I just received from Yahoo! Yahoo! sent me an email to say that they’re renaming their calendar and notepad by adding “All-New” in front of them? I don’t use Yahoo! Calendar and Yahoo! Notepad. Where’s the unsubscribe button? Oh wait, there is none. Lesson learned: Make

What happened to the shortcut to Google Reader within Gmail? It used to be right there next to documents. Now, “Photos” is in its place… To get to Google Reader now is a three-step process. You must click more, scroll down to reader, and click on it. Not so slick

On my day off Friday I attended Redfin’s fantastic brown bag lunch speaker series, which is open to the public and highly recommended for people working in start-up environments. Neil Roseman was the guest speaker, who built the server-side software for Amazon’s Kindle, among other things. It also gave me

In my post describing secrets to booking online air travel, I got a few questions asking for more details. One was – what happens if you don’t get on the 2nd leg of a flight? The answer: nothing. Airlines can’t stop you from using this trick to save a bunch

NY Times has a great blog post on how to book travel online. Here’s how I book domestic travel with defined dates: Check mileage programs – see if a saver ticket is available (generally 25k for a roundtrip). If so, book, but watch out for fees, especially if within 3

TechCrunch broke the story of Amazon‘s plans to give a free Kindle to all Amazon Prime subscribers. I love the forward thinking by Steve Bezos. Cell phone companies have been doing this for years – free cell phone with a contract. Could he leverage a similar formula for his Prime