If you’re only recently aware that the 21st century has brought people into current technologies like HDTV, high-speed internet and internet-based phone service (VOIP, or voice-over-internet-protocol), you probably have been wondering what all the fuss is about. Perhaps you’ve just been confused, and not really been sure what you want, but you know that you … Read more
Apparently sick and tired of Apple’s pretentious “I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC,” ads, Microsoft has recently struck back with a series of “Joe the Plumber”-esque ads where different everyday people proclaim what they use their computers for and say proudly “I’m a PC.” The most recent ad has taken a new stab at … Read more
I forgot to mention that I went home to visit my family in my hometown last weekend. One of the particular purposes of that trip was to take my Apple OS X 10.5 Support Essentials exam. I am now successfully an Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP, formerly ACHDST)! Now I can check that off of … Read more
In an effort to squash competition from Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation), Google and Sony have struck up a deal to put over 500,000 eBooks on Sony Connect eBook store for FREE. Granted, all of these books are public domain, but they’ve been specially formatted for Sony Reader. Ars Technica weighs … Read more
There are a lot of e-mail options out there to choose from! Whew! If you don’t believe me, just go to Google and type in “Free E-mail Service” and you’ll get more results than you’ll know what to do with. The big names will come up first, G-Mail, Hotmail / Windows Live Mail, Yahoo!, AOL, … Read more
That’s right my fateful brethren, it’s March 15th, the Ides of March. I’ve successfully avoided this fated day by sleeping most of the way through it. I woke up today (the final time) around 2pm. I got up and got some microwavable breakfast and then tooled away at the computer the rest of the day. … Read more
I’ve recently had access to a LaCIE Ethernet 1TB (terabyte) NAS (network attached storage) server similar to the one we use at our work place. These things are great because you don’t have to hook them up to a computer (they’re really just small computer servers with huge hard drives). Also, you can make user … Read more