Coming from a world with 300 baud modems, I appreciate every technological speed improvement that comes along. Each time I have replaced a computer, PDA or phone, the expectation has always been that it will be faster than it’s predecessor. While my financial situation has changed somewhat, I still try to purchase the best I … Read more
Like many digital natives, your children are probably on their way to becoming lifelong multitaskers (or so you think). As the research indicates, children these days spend about seven-and-a-half hours a day interacting with technology unrelated to school and when multitasking is counted, that number jumps to an astonishing ten-and-three-quarter hours. Your children may be … Read more
I reside in the lovely city of New York, and in the great NYC one of its many marvels comes in the form of public transportation. Entertainment is plentiful and crowd sourcing couldn’t be better. Crowd sourcing you say? Indeed! We all know I am unlike normal people, I go places and pay little to … Read more
The last machine in the house (a Gateway Pentium Dual Core x64 running Vista) not running Windows 8 was starting to act up last week (again), so I decided it was time to upgrade. As I already had some experience with the Win 8 Consumer Preview on 5 machines, and installed Win 8 Pro in … Read more
There is not much I dislike about my new Surface RT from Microsoft. But one thing that has bugged me almost since the unboxing has been weak audio output, at least IMHO. I didn’t expect some kind of high quality surround sound, but I would have expected the Surface to be as loud as my … Read more
What’s using a Surface really like and can it replace your laptop? It’s the quintessential question being bandied and argued about on the tech blogs and in forums since the launch of the Surface. Simply put, the question is “Can the Surface replace your laptop” The answer to this isn’t so straight forward. Various … Read more
Ah yes, it is that time once again. While too soon, I never turn down the opportunity to camp an AT&T store to be the first of my kind! And so, the Lumia 920 and all of its awesomeness now belongs to me! Small blessing folks, small blessings! So what of it? Is it as … Read more
….and while your at it, how about one for the Windows Phone Store as well. Windows 8 has only been out two weeks and I already have 23 apps listed in my, “Apps not installed on this PC list”. While the Store is growing I am going to try and check out New Releases every … Read more
You could spend a lot of time trying to weed through all of the cases that are available for the iPhone 5 but if you are like me, you tend to stick towards brands that have great reputation and have been in business for a long time. Such is the case (no pun intended) with … Read more
The more Windows 8 reviews I read, the more frustrated I become. Having migrated directly from XP to Win8. maybe I am missing something that was available in Win7 that has suddenly been stolen from the user experience. Not sure. Without any concrete evidence, my guess is that these reviewers are allowing their subjective opinions … Read more