Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Is Remote access only for Geeks? I hate nothing more than being away from my home office and finding I’ve left a critical spreadsheet or document half way around the country. Sure, I can get it emailed but that just wastes time and if the file’s too big odds are it gets rejected. I’ve been a ‘road warrior’ [...]

Here’s a photo of our new HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer Our other one died. We thought setting up the wireless aspect would be a nightmare, but it was really quite simple. This is a copier, fax, printer, and scanner. Our other previous workhorse – a 1600 series – passed away after going [...]

I guess I’m one of those people who is a couch potato by nature. I know I want to get into shape, but need a gimmick. Maybe that’s why I was browsing through Shopwicki.com’s Video Games looking for a Wii. I was looking for fitness games on the Wii. It was handy to browse through [...]

BuddyPress is going to be hot – I think. Why? It gives WordPress bloggers on the MU platform the ability to have powerful social networking tools for their own little “Micro network” for fans connecting to their blog and its niche. Because WordPress is a leading blog platform, Buddypress automatically has a large potential user [...]

If you have a wi-fi router at your home off office and you want to boost your WiFi Signal strength for free, it pays to first check out this video and see if you can do it for free at home using a cardboard box and aluminum foil. Warning: you may be confused with people [...]

The Applie IPhone controls 66% of Mobile Phone Browsing on the Internet! That’s 10 TIMES the amount of surfing done by the nearest competitors at about 6-7% each! the iPhone operating system having managed over nine times the usage of its next smartphone competitor, Windows Mobile, which had just 6.91 percent of the traffic measured [...]

The cost of producing audiobooks and ebooks and delivering them is falling through the floor.  One major pubisher is using that fact to boost the sale of their paper and ink books. By using the falling price of technology in this way they can keep selling their bread and butter – traditional books which people [...]

Lots of home business people use Gmail, so I guess it’s only natural that they’ll be using Google’s new voice chat and video chat. You’ll need to download a special voice and video browser plugin. But, after that, it’s fairly routine. Frankly though, none of my regular contacts are on the system to I can [...]

Qualcomm plans to link people to the internet without the necessity of a personal computer. Piggybacking on the increasing availability of 3G wireless networks in developing nations, Qualcomm can enable people in developing nations to access the internet without a traditional computer. Once online, people unable to afford sophisticated home computers or packaged software will [...]

I have had antivirus software running on my computers for quite some time. I always wondered… how well is it working? One day I was reading Web Worker Daily. So, on a lark, I downloaded Malwarebytes – the basic version is free. The paid version is only $25. It doesn’t interfere with my present anti-virus [...]