The Technical Geekery Quick Tips

One of my interests is finding efficient and useful ways to create, store, and retrieve information.

Have you ever been researching something and come across a website that looks like it's exactly

Did you know 25% of a typical English text is taken up by just 10 words? If you learn to abbreviate

Here's some somewhat dense reading on this mathematical concept, at its root involving the

So remember how I announced a new mission statement and said I was reorganizing the website a while

This week I made the decision to get a smartphone. But I recognize that for someone like me, who

I'm trying something a little bit different this week, a bit of thinking on why we treat and

I got a call from “Windows” the other day. My computer, you see, had reported errors to Windows, and

Most of us folks in the United States are familiar with the MM-DD-YY short date system (eg, 6/28/13

One of the biggest advantage of electronic documents has always been that they're easy to search.

Guess what happened to me the other day? I had a big project to work on. Before I started, I figured,

Ever find yourself wondering whether you should use the latest app or buy the latest fancy device to

Today I'm announcing the reorganization of The Technical Geekery. What does this mean? I'm

This week I thought I'd show off my room and workspace a little bit, as well as showing some of

I've spent the previous week disconnected from my email, social networks, and the information of

After a bit of a hiatus, I'm back! This week's article is about the password reset function

It's been two weeks since my last post, when I suggested that you install LastPass and start

It's been a bit longer than usual since last post, when I told you that passwords were getting

I'm going to do a security series over the next couple of weeks, inspired by last week's post

Sorry for the sensational headline, but I really do feel strongly about this. Take note. Passwords

BitTorrent is a way to download large files quickly. Instead of using a single server, like you do

I have published a new article about all sorts of tricks for searching the web, both in forming

I did something really stupid today, which you'll learn about in the post. As a result, the links

Announcement: First of all, I'm back from my vacation, and will resume posting tips myself.

Ever gotten a disc stuck in your CD drive? It doesn't happen often, but it can get really

Your actual computer is the part that usually gets the dirtiest. Fans actually electrically attract

Mice aren't usually a big problem source in terms of getting dirty, simply because there aren

Keyboards seem to be dust magnets (and hair magnets and staple magnets…). Even if you don't

Most people do not clean their monitors nearly as often as they should (and that includes me). You

Computers get rather dirty very quickly. Lots of dust and dirt looks bad, can make keys stick or