Archive for the 'Technology' Category

I know it’s hard to believe a business page wouldn’t have some kind of RSS capacity, but some don’t… mainly ones that are afraid folks will use RSS to repost their content and rob them of a visitor.
So how do you get notified about changes in important content?
Here’s a tool called ChangeDetection that I like.

This always sounded like something I’d like to learn more about.  Maybe you will too…
Do you want to learn to produce a constant supply fish and vegetables in an efficient, inexpensive smallscale system, which will prove to be an effective “helps ministry”outreach? If so, you will want to attend the Barrel Aquaponics Workshop held at […]

Internet users from Egypt to Bangladesh were affected by Internet outages yesterday greatly affecting India’s outsourcing business.
The problem seemed to be a slowdown instead of a complete outage due to some line damage in the Mediterranean.
“The biggest impact to the rest of the world could come from the outages across India, where many U.S. companies […]

Have you upgraded to the latest version of Microsoft Office?
I’ve been using Microsoft Word, for example, since Windows 3.1.
Usually the changes for each upgrade are such that using the new version is comparatively simple.
I didn’t find that to be the case with the latest upgrade at all.
It’s “tabbed” like Internet Explorer 7 but it was […]

I know business people who work overseas or who send email about confidential business matters using “secure” email.
In fact, I wrote once about a service I’d heard about…
Recently I received an email from an information security person who believes these services really aren’t secure.
Here’s part of what they wrote - and I pass it along […]

In a related article to the one about $100 Laptops,  Microsoft is feeling the heat of technological change too.
The Asus EEPC  is one of the new breed of stripped down laptops that are flash based using the same type of memory as, say, a digital Mp3 recorder.
There’s just one problem, Microsoft has been building Windows […]

Energy Savings are coming to a computer near you.
This will translate into a cost savings for home and small businesses.
The rising price of oil and interest in solar power may spark the investment needed to find or popularize at least real breakthroughs that make solar energy more “friendly” for businesses and consumers.

When I was at a seminar recently the speakers were given a cool recorder to hang around their neck to digitally record the messages.
This is something similar except it’s an xTag microphone that transmits to your PC or Apple computer:
Superb audio performance with wireless convenience brought to the individual workspace.  Connecting to a Windows® or […]

CNET has published the best and worst technology of 2007
Hopefully BEFORE you’ve gone out and bought too many of these losers for the holidays. (And before someone bought one for YOU!)
Boy, some of these dogs really bark!
I especially liked reading the Web 2.0 hits and misses.

Postaroo.com was once listed as a top free classified ad place having an Alexa Rank of 43,471
They’ve now gone offline and their url redirects to some “hot daily offers” site.
Spend your time looking to use Craigslist if they accomodate your sales strategy!