While making a purchase on Amazon today I ran into a problem that I hadn’t had before. The thing that I wanted, the USB to Micro USB adapter pictured at the right was listed as an “Add-on Item”. I wasn’t adding it on to anything. I just wanted to purchase the cable and have it...
Category: Buyer Beware
Why I’m Passing on Apple Products in the Future
I was recently talking to my wife about not buying any more Apple devices. We have a few Apple computers in the house. Both of them are Mac Minis, one old G4 version, and an Intel Mini that I use as my main workstation for producing podcasts, writing, paying bills, etc. We also have a...
Download.com Adware
Dwight Silverman, tech journalist for the Houston Chronicle, has a great column on the latest practices of the Cnet website Download.com. Apparently they are now offering up a custom downloader that takes the place of the program that you were looking to download. The custom downloader will then offer you change your search engine in...