Archive for the 'Technology' Category

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 [...]

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!

A Taiwanese firm is unveiling a $299 Laptop! It uses flash memory instead of a resident hard drive and operates only open source software to keep the price down. I told you before about the $100 laptop project for school children and predicted we’d see one on the shelves of Wal Mart too. The way [...]

Don’t get your hopes up as I did when I saw the headline. You’ll only run your home office on this if you’re adept at reading by light from your wrist watch at night. This discovery however means that the company may be on the brink of creating a long life battery – I’d say [...]

Email taking you all day? Here’s 20+ Firefox Plug Ins To Manage Your Email I thought the tools to help you create temporary “throw away” emails was a great idea to help you cut down on spam! If you use GMail, you’ll definitely want to know about these scripts to improve GMail’s functionality.

The dream of the Web 2.0 world is that everyone will keep their data on a remote sever somewhere and ultimately have stripped down laptops and internet accessing devices that no longer require internal storage. It reminds me of the report of Google getting into online medical records. I suppose they’ll serve Adsense ads while [...]

Why pay $400 for Microsoft Office when, as an individual, you can get the same functionality for free? Good question according to the co-creator of Hotmail. It’s invitation only at this point and you can request one at Live-Documents.com  Though there are already online tools like Google Docs, this promises the SAME “feel” and functionality [...]