Regaining Control
One of the reasons I say Technology Is Broken is because computers do so many annoying and time wasting things. Well, they doing something annoying, and we have to waste time fixing them.That's why 5 Smart Fixes for Dumb PC...
Share Your Laptop Tricks
If you're one of those who live with their laptop, share one of your secrets. How do you disguise the laptop when traveling, or do you? Do you have any anti-theft tricks you can share?Backup for laptops, especially those laptops so...
Buddy Bling
Social networks, primarily FaceBook and MySpace for the younger set, and LinkedIn for business people, seem to be growing faster than home foreclosure rates. That's a good thing, or at least it will be in ten years or so.Today,...
More Solid State Drive Info
This article copied over from MacWorld talks about the Solid State Disk (SSD) that's an option on the new MacBook Air. There's a little more depth than in the post I made 10 days ago.The details about the new disk are simple. You pay...
Advice from Big IT
Big companies were once small, and small companies want to be big. Hence the advice from big company IT experts will help small companies. At least that's the idea behind the story “Big IT to small biz: Listen up, little dudes!” from...
New Vista Promises
Microsoft took their lumps from press and customers about Vista, something that happens with all their new operating systems. But they usually redeem themselves somewhat with the first Service Pack, called SP1. These major upgrades...
Donating Computers
What may be an old computer to you may be a treasure to someone else. Linda Musthaler lists some good donation options here, along with business steps for tracking and accounting for those donations.Don't listen to the guy saying...
Another Wandering Laptop
Can you say Court Martial? The Royal Navy can, and has, about an officer who lost or let a valuable laptop be stolen. That laptop contained personal information on about 600,000 people, many of whom are not in the Royal Navy but have...
More Free Programs
PC World does another roundup in 14 Fantastic Freeware Finds for us. Do you ever wonder why programmers write programs for free? Sometimes they need to scratch an itch, and realize others may have that same itch. Sometimes they use...
Thin and Solid State
First CES, the giant Consumer Electronics Show, then MacWorld, starts each new year off with a trade show bang. It's hard to tell which one generates more excitement, although MacFans eagerly flock to San Francisco for MacWorld, and...
Personal Disaster Recovery
My in-laws returned from church Sunday to find visitors waiting: four fire trucks. Their home and contents are a complete loss, including computers. Financial records of all kinds are gone or damaged. We haven't been able to pull out...
Collaboration Can Be Chaotic
Computers are logical and do what they're told, but people don't. Collaboration projects at work fail not because of the technical tools, but because of management heavy-handedness or poor planning. This article encourages large...
Ultra Mobile PC Report
PCWorld has a nice story from CES called The UMPC: Still Evolving! Still Pointless! Why? Because Windows running on a pocketable device means a small screen and tiny keyboard. How can you treat that like a PC?The answer, of course,...
Year of Linux Desktops?
Once again, it's the year of the Linux Desktop. Actually, it might be the eighth Year of Linux Desktops, because I stopped counting. However, I have shifted my main work machine from one running Windows XP to two running (right now)...
100 Million Vista Users?
Bill Gates, during his annual opening speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, claimed there are now 100 million Vista users. According to this story in ComputerWorld, he didn't offer any details about the origin...
Hello Houston
Next Tuesday, January 8th, I'll be speaking to the NSTA (National Space and Technology Association) at their lunch meeting (details here). The meeting is at the Canyon Cafe, 5000 Westheimer Road (across from Galleria at Post Oak)....
Laptop Safety
If you read my earlier post about All Purpose Laptops and ran out and bought one, or maybe bought one just before the end of the year, let me ask a few questions. I'm working on some laptop safety guidelines now, and I'd like to hear...
Welcome Back
Now that the holidays are over, except for some executives who have yet to return to work, we can start planning to make 2008 better than 2007. We should have been planning this long ago, of course, but last month at this time we...
Downloadable Winners
Preston Gralla over at PC World put together a great list of useful files to download here. I use several of the programs regularly, including IrfanView and CCleaner. If you want to run Launchy, note that the domain name has a typo:...
