The coach potatoes and movie addicts have won. They have gotten more reasons to lay on the couch and spend all weekend watching movies. There is a greater selection of mind numbing entertainment than ever. Now there is no need to pay $75 to $100 for a monthly subscription. The cost of all television shows...
Just the other day, I had to reset my password to my Amazon.com. It had been sometime since I bought anything there. Normally, my web browser would automatically log me into the checkout section of the website. The reason it would not let me login was because I changed computers since the last time...
We are definitely living in the 21st century. Everyday we have less and less paper. We are dependent more and more on our tech and the digital media we can store in it. It wasn’t that long ago when we had a list of phone numbers written on sheet of paper sitting next to the telephone...
I had to say good-by to my old HP Officejet 6110. I paid $5 for it three years ago. I said hello to my new Canon PIXMA MX410. The old HP Officejet printer finally died after three years of dependable faithful use. No matter how hard I tried I could not revive it to...
Yes, we need tools for our tech too. It does not matter if it is a cell phone or a 55″ LCD television. There are certain things we all should have to extend the life of our tech toys and tech tools. I am not talking about repair and upgrading hardware. In this post...
In my opinion choosing computer security software is like choosing car insurance. The riskier the driver, the more you are going to pay for protection. Last week when I wrote The Cost of Online Security, In that post, I wrote about simple practices you and I could do to protect ourselves. Threats like having...
I am constantly hearing people verbalize their concerns about internet security and online privacy over the internet. This is a very real concern, because lost of certain personal information can cost you a lot of money. On the other hand you can spend a lot of money for minimal protection. Like most everything else, it is not...
Back in the late 1990′s, I was when I first heard about Bluetooth. This guy who was telling me about the technology. He told me it got name from a pirate who had one tooth and liked to eat blueberries. Thus, his nickname was Bluetooth. Since then I have not found any truth to...
I was sitting at the breakfast table reading the local newspaper. Inside the paper were sales ads for the upcoming President’s Day weekend sales. The Samsung Galaxy Tab and The Toshiba Thrive popped up in a couple of places. There were some several stores like Shopko and Wal Mart offering sub $200 tablets. Then...
I first saw touch screens computers in the food processing industry back in the late 90′s. Since then the technology and the price has been slowly been dropping. As a result we now see more cell phones with touch screens than without. The overall adoption of a touch screen desktop computer has been slow...
