Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Well, maybe I should have titled this “Cleaning Your Laptop”, but this works on other things, including my iPhone. I have many people ask me how to best clean their laptops, desktops, and other computer electronics. As you may know, there are many solutions sold at most gadget stores. Usually, these solutions are for cleaning [...]
It is no secret that Microsoft is struggling a bit to keep up with the competition. With the latest news coming out that they are even further behind on their release cycle for Windows 7, things are looking slightly bleak. In a mobile PDA market that they once controlled, it seems that more competing solutions [...]
Android – the Google “Open Source” answer to smart phone software, doesn’t seem like it is really ready for primetime. I was surprised this week when T-Mobile and Google announced the new G1 phone and Android software. It was an event full of “It will probably” or “we imagine someone will…” promises to support how [...]
When I bought my first iPhone, and read the many reviews online, there was the occasional murmur from geeks wishing for a tethering solution for their iPhone. Tethering is the process of linking your phone to your computer, and using the phones data connection on your laptop. While i thought it would be kind [...]
Laptops are are a wonderful thing. They give us freedom from being tied to a desk, and nowadays they give us nearly the power of a desktop machine. While these technical wonders are great tools to have, they do come with a downside, and I don’t mean short battery life. The downside is, it’s a [...]
(source) Like most iPhone owners this weekend, I was having a blast with the new 2.0 software. Also as a .Mac user, I have watched the painful Mobile Me transition unfold (well, it still is). While waiting for the Mobile Me rollercoaster to stop, I spent a lot of time experimenting with or reading about [...]
(source) Being an IT geek, I work with a lot of geeks. Many of these geeks are Google fanboys. In the early days, when the Gmail beta was really beta and had not-so-many users, I was a fanboy too. As time went on I began to enjoy the google search engine more and more. It [...]
(image source) The Internet, our land of virtual promise. I was thrilled the first time I plugged in a modem to a phone line, and heard the sound of the internet connecting. Logging into Compuserve or Prodigy to explore this amazing new world. Those were the good old days. Good because, the ever expansive [...]
(image source) Have you ever received spam messages sent as SMS text to your cell phone? Has it happened repeatedly? Yea, it sucks. Until today, I didn’t think there was anything you could do about it, unless you turn off that service to your phone. Apparently, there is something you can do. While this solution [...]
The day apple released the iPhone, and in the process, provided only minimal support for its own .Mac service – I was perplexed. What the heck were they thinking? Every other Apple solution allowed for total syncing of Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, and more. Why didn’t the iPhone? In the age of ActiveSync, Blackberry Enterprise, [...]
