Editor’s note: This new feature in Gmail seems made to order for fastball player and fans. Instead of copying the address to your next tournament, opening google maps, and then pasting the address in, Gmail gives you a map link/preview right inside Gmail. To activate, go to “Settings”, then “Labs”, then “Enable” the map preview [...]

For PDF viewing, we’ve touted Foxit as a faster loadinng replacement for the notoriously slow-loading Adobe Reader. Here’s one that’s even faster (and also free), Sumatra PDF. Small footprint, so good for that thumb drive too. Click here for free download.

The Google boys have come up with some new tech that makes reading PDF files quicker and easier, in Gmail, right inside your browser, without “opening” the file. Great for opening that tournament notice, or bracket sheet, on the fly: From www.lifehacker.com: Gmail Makes Viewing PDF Files In-Browser Easier Next time you receive a PDF [...]

We wrote previously about Google’s new, FAST Chrome Browser. It’s out of beta now, and can be downloaded for free. If you downloaded the browser previously, you can update to the newest version, just click the “wrench” in the upper right hand corner (for tools), and then “About Chrome” and it will check for, and [...]

For those of you dissatisfied with Internet Explorer, or those just wanting to take a new browser for a spin, Google has released their new “Chrome” browser, in beta form. Yes, even this longtime Firefox user tried it out, and have to say I am impressed with what I see so far. It is the [...]

Reprinted with permission from the Times Colonist Team Canada juniors come calling on Langford softball star Brian Drewry, Times Colonist Published: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 He was barely out of the womb, and Darcy Walushka was already thinking softball. Or so his mom likes to think. “She told me when I was four days old [...]

While we’re on the topic of tech tips, we pass along a caution to those Windows XP users contemplating running the new update from Microsoft, “Service Pack 3 for XP”. While it’s usually a good idea to use Windows Update and download the latest security patches, it appears that a number of people are having [...]

While we usually cover “tech tips” in our forum section of that name, some items bear wider coverage, winding up here in the morning brief. The latest new version of FREE anti-virus program AVG is “blog-worthy”. The latest version, 8.0 was just released and contains a number of improvements over the prior versions, and is [...]

Since Excel and Word get a lot of use among fastpitch afficionados, we thought we’d share this one with you. Microsoft’s software can be a little pricey, but this looks to be their best deal in a long while: Office 2007 for Students for $60. You have to be an eligible college student to get [...]

Some tech developments that might be of interest to all fastpitch players, coaches and fans as the 2007 season gets into swing: GOOGLE 411 – 800-GOOG-411 (800-466-4411) – a FREE telelephone 411 (yellow pages) service from Google. It will connect you, give you details, or even text you if you say “text me”. Having trouble [...]