I've used Access, Zoho Creator, and dabbledb, and they are all pretty different. Between dabbledb and Zoho, I prefer dabbledb in most regards—I found it easier to get the hang of, easier to import old data, and more powerful in terms of being able to display, sort, search, and output. It's also very amenable to…

I recently discovered Picasa—it really made it much easier to find what I was looking for on my husband's machine, which has an ungodly number of hard drives and partitions. It also makes easier schmeezy to upload and order prints—I think I'm actually going to get prints of our wedding put into the very nice picture…

The older I get, the harder it is to remember the names of new people. I find it useful when I meet someone new to associate their name with a person from my distant past or a famous person. Of course, like any memory hack, this only works when you remember to use it!

I did a fair amount of superficial testing of applications of this ilk. Desktop two LOOKS very slick, but at least for my purposes I found many of the applications to be limited or nonfunctional (the "website editor," for example) and the evidence of active development/responsiveness on the user/support forums oddly…

I've been a fan/customer of ING for about 3 years now and was offered the opportunity to sign up for the Electric Orange account a long time ago, but I must say that I really wish they included a small number of paper-check transactions with this account product. Like most people nowadays, I don't write many checks,…