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Microsoft Office is Finally on the Internet

June 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

Microsoft has just made Word, Excel, Pow­er­Point, and OneNote avail­able on the Inter­net for FREE. It appears to func­tion just like the pro­grams in the 2010 suite. At this point I am not sure if it will remain free and be spon­sored by ads, or if they are going to tie you into a monthly […]

Google Maps Has Become Very Inaccurate

June 7th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

At first I blamed my iPhone. the Maps appli­ca­tion was miss­ing a lot of streets, both new and old. On some trips it had me mak­ing lefts when I should be mak­ing rights, on other trips the des­ti­na­tion was not accu­rate once you turned onto the street. It may have pleased investors to put an […]

Use Credit Cards Online the Safe Way

June 4th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

I have been using credit cards online for years, and have only encoun­tered one credit card issue, when some­one tried to use our debit card to pay for a doc­tor visit in India. We caught the trans­ac­tion imme­di­ately and got the charge thrown out in min­utes. Part of my for­tune is choos­ing the right bank. I […]

Is GoToMeeting the Best Web Conferencing Solution?

June 4th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

No! Gotomeet­ing and WebEx starts at $50/month, which allows them to cover their huge mar­ket­ing bud­gets. How­ev­ery you can find the same fea­ture set in Yugma, for $10/mo. Vyew and Yakkle offers simalr an less refined fea­tures for free, which might not be a bad trade if you need to host a meet­ing right now, […]

Virut Outbreak?

June 3rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

I have went out on five virus calls over the past three days, and each per­son was ulti­mately infected with the Virut virus. In every instance the cus­tomer had worked with other com­pa­nies, and their com­puter remained unchanged. I spent almost six hours on one com­puter, and because of that I changed my pro­ce­dure for […]

High Speed Internet Modems

May 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

Most peo­ple don’t think about what modem to use with their cable or DSL Inter­net, but hope to change that with this arti­cle. If you have DSL get a 2Wire Gate­way. It is the best of the best. AT&T will sell you one for $100 if you request the wire­less pack­age, and I believe you […]

Amazon Kindle: Is There Any Life Left?

May 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

The con­sumer hard­ware indus­try is prob­a­bly more cut throat than the online mar­ket­place indus­try. Some­times you need to know when to retire. The Ama­zon Kin­dle served a pur­pose and had a good run. The iPad is on the scene, so now the Kin­dle should begin mak­ing exit­ing plans. Cre­ate a good expe­ri­ence for cur­rent own­ers, perhaps […]

Google Android Will Kill the Apple iPhone

May 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

Apple is at the top of the NASDAQ, and that is great. Microsoft, who was on top of NASDAQ up to Wednes­day, May 26, 2010, has been going the path of IBM since before Vista was release (Win­dows XP was too good). Any­ways, every week a new Android based phone hit the mar­ket, and it is […]

Your Online Reputation Cannot Be Erased

May 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

There is a com­pany called Rapleaf col­lect­ing your tweets, Face­book posts, and other online com­mu­ni­ca­tion and cre­at­ing a nice and sim­ple pro­file on who they think you are accord­ing to your onlien activ­ity. They are sell­ing these pro­files to com­pa­nies who are in turn mak­ing judg­ments on every­thing from credit wor­thi­ness to char­ac­ter. In theory […]

Where to find a Cheap TV Mount

May 21st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

Mounts­MadeS­im­ple majors in brand name TV mounts and their prices are much lower than the retail store. It’s pretty easy to shop the store and find what you need, and you can save money with free ship­ping. If you need help you can call their 800 num­ber, and speak to their staff who knows TV […]