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Did you ever wish that you could recieve important notifications and basic information nomatter where you were… A great company called Ambient Devices has developed a solution that wirelessly connects you. Even without an internet connection! (more…)

Everyone likes to use use the telephone. From geek to grandma, all are familiar with how to contact someone with a phone. My grandma will pay a ton of money for long distance when she could be using a fraction of that money to make flat rate voice over ip calls usually called voip calls over her DSL Internet connection. In this post I plan on filling you in on some great voip offers that make Vonage look like a rip off. These offers aren’t free but are darn close, stay tuned for more. (more…)

Keyboards are the main way we issue our computers commands, communicate and write code. In the days gone by there were no mice, windows or icons to point and click. We survived with just our keyboard and maby a joystick if we played the early era games like doom. Now there is a new one handed keyboard that is really stealing the spotlight away from the dominant keyboard we all know. (more…)

Here is the story: I have been to many concerts in my life, most of them good and loud. The problem is I enjoyed the concert, but after I got home the ringing set in. My ears would ring for 1-3 days later depending on how close I was to the large towers of speakers filling the venue with sound. In this post you will read about the most revolutionary earplugs you can get for $15 bucks (more…)

With the Windows Mobile 5.0 smart phone platform you need an exchange server to get push synchronization of your information. Most small businesses and up have an exchange server on site, but what if you do not? That is where a hosted exchange account will unlock your devices full potential. (more…)

This past weekend I took a short trip down to the Florida Keys just to get away before the beginning of a fairly large project. Since I was only going for two days, I thought seriously about leaving my laptop behind. But, part of my job is staying in touch, so in the end I decided to take it along.

Of course, I never leave home without my cell phone, and since I have a brand new Audiovox XV-6700 from Verizon, I was interested to see how well I could stay in touch, and how often I would have to pull out my PC. I was amazed at just how much I could get accomplished with only the phone, in fact, there were times when I could not have been connected without it. (more…)

If you own a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) like TiVo, you have probably come to love the enhanced viewing experience that it creates. However, it one major limitation: a TiVo can only be connected to one TV. If you want to use it in more than one room, you have to buy additional TiVos, each requiring another monthly fee. I have a different solution to this problem which will let you use your TiVo in every room of your house. This solution can also be applied to “extend” any media device (DVD player, VCR, digital cable, satellite TV, even a game console) to your entire house. (more…)

Intuit is not a Mac friendly company. They make an OS X version of Quicken, but it is artificially crippled in order to try to get banks to pay them money. Intuit will only let you import files from banks that pay extra to let their customers download transactions into Quicken for Mac. The fact that you paid for Quicken and the bank paid for a Quicken server isn’t enough. They want the banks to pay another fee for their Mac users–even though there is no additional hardware or software involved. The end result is that Mac users get a product that will only work with a handful of banks. This article discusses a method to get around this limitation. (more…)

There are two basic ways to enter the world of the Personal Video Recorder (PVR): through a dedicated hardware unit, like a TiVo or ReplayTV, or through a software-based PVR that runs on your home computer, like Windows: Media Center Edition (WMCE) or MythTV. In this article I will compare the most popular form of each platform, TiVo and WMCE, to help you figure out which one would be best for you. (more…)

There are several situations where you might want to dump a DVD to your hard drive to watch later. For instance, I get significantly better battery life when watching a video from my hard drive than I get when watching it from a DVD. If I’m stuck in a plane for several hours, having my movie on the hard drive can be the difference between finishing the show, or running out of power halfway through. I use a PowerBook and in OS X 10.3 and earlier you could just use the built in Disk Utility to copy a DVD to your disk, but it stopped working in 10.4. However with a few free tools you can accomplish the same thing and more.
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