Category Archives: computers

Amazon Prime – What’s Concealed

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 29th September 2011

Amazon offers Prime, which is a premium membership to the online retailer, for $79 a year. The membership includes free two-day shipping on products, as well as unlimited streaming of videos from a library of television shows and movies. The preceding is from an article about Amazon’s soon to be released Kindle Fire. It’s typical…


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Spyware Doctor – Malpractice

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 23rd January 2011

I have a relatively new computer which two days before Christmas started misbehaving. Shortly after turning it on it would freeze. I could only get it to work by doing a cold reboot – ie, I had to turn it off using the on-off button and then restart it. I paid no attention to this problem until…


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mp3mymp3 – Record and Rip

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 1st December 2010

If you’re looking for a good free sound device I highly recommend mp3mymp3. It will record from your computer and will also rip CDs. I have had no trouble doing both with this software. You do need a sound card to record, but it uses the built in one on my motherboard without difficulty. It…


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Trouble Updating Firefox

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 25th July 2010

Joseph Schumepter (1883 – 1950) is famous for his use of creative destruction. He showed how capitalism innovates to create new and better systems which destroy their older competition. But after time and the departure of the innovators who created these systems, newer innovators arise who create even better systems that destroy what a short…


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Meaningful Use of an Electronic Health Record

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 20th July 2010

As part of last year’s economic stimulus act congress passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). “HITECH broadens the scope of privacy and security protections already available under HIPAA. This law also increases the potential legal liability for non-compliance and provides for more enforcement. HITECH requires data breach notification for…


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How to Put an Image In Gmail When Gmail Doesn’t Want to Let You Do It

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 16th July 2010

There are many times when you’ll want to put a picture into an email. If you use Gmail this was hard to do until April of 2009 when Gmail made it easier, but not as easy as they should have. What you have to do is click the Settings tab. Make sure you are using…


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How to Disable Yahoo’s Theft of Firefox’s Open a New Tab

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 20th March 2010

If you like puzzles you might try to figure this one out. If you install a Yahoo toolbar into Mozilla’s Firefox you’ll discover that it hijacks Firefox’s new tab page. If you click the new tab button on Firefox you should get a blank and untitled page. But once you’ve installed the Yahoo toolbar instead…


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Bing vs Google

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 19th October 2009

On the basis of a completely non-scientific survey, it appears to me that Microsoft’s relatively new search engine Bing is doing a better job at finding stuff than Google. Just a short while ago Google would find posts to blogs or small web sites within hours of their appearance. Now it seems to take the…


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Why Nothing Works

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 24th December 2008

The title is a bit hyperbolic – almost nothing works. Good service usually can  not be purchased at any price unless you are in the billionaire class. Why do businesses that provide only a service – like the airlines – perform so terribly? In this case (airlines) it’s our fault. We don’t want to pay…


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