Article Archive for October 2008
Plugging printers or plotters into an existing network usually requires giving a printer an IP address, just as you would any computer. This requires a certain amount of skill once the printer is unwrapped. Yawn.
But …
Email is a terrible way to exchange large files; the technology was never meant to be a file exchange service. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is. But FTP is not always as convenient or accessible as …
Steve Jobs, et. al. announced on Tues. Oct. 14th, Apple’s newly designed notebooks. Conspicuously absent from the announcement was integrated support for Blu-ray, the recent winner of the next generation of optical storage and HD …
Every new release of Windows and Macintosh OS X sees a plethora of new and improved functionality. But there is always something missing, some little functionality that is needed to get a small task you’re …
With the release of Apple’s latest laptop lineup, Apple has quietly removed FireWire 400 ports from their lineup. Released in 1995, FireWire has long been the preferred standard for attaching external hard drives, high-speed card …
Washington DC has recently decided to hang up the keys to the Microsoft Upgrade Closet and adopt Google Apps for its city employees. The choice Washington DC has made will help to cut their budget …
The Presidential election season gives us a great time to reflect on the past look at our present, and envision our future in technology. For a few years Blackberry was the heir apparent in the …
The Big O
…isn’t just our superhero next President or the good ole you know what, but a sexy new web browser that is “simply the best internet experience.”
Like other web browsers, Opera is cheap (free) …
As if the financial and credit crisis isn’t enough to deal with for many people already, scammers have already lined up to take advantage of fearful bank customers. The US-CERT reports:
“US-CERT is aware of an …
I’m still asked this question frequently. And I used to have a pretty long-winded answer about the pros and cons of each choice; it involved power, hardware wear-and-tear and time vs. productivity and, well, so …