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Calendar Sharing - The Beginning

Chances are, you're always on the move, either going from the office to home or from one office to another.  Having all those places to ga at certain times makes a calendar a necessity.  The calendar can remind you of upcoming events and help you plan your day/week/month.

Battery Information - How to get more life out of your batteries

Chemistry

Batteries are in just about everything we use these days, our cell phones, laptops, cordless phones, etc.  Because there are different uses for batteries, they come in different chemistries.  A battery's chemistry is the mixture of chemicals or elements contained with in its cell.  Different chemistries make batteries good for one use and not good or another.  So, what kind of chemistry does your laptop battery use?

Netbook?

What is the difference between a netbook and a laptop?

(From Dictionary.com) Laptop –noun

a portable, usu. battery-powered microcomputer small enough to rest on the user's lap.

The most usefull pen I've owned.

Now I love my Zebra F-301 pens, but to be honest I'm a gadget guy.  It would be nice if my Zebra pen could record everything I write and even record audio when I ask it to.  Enter the Livescribe by Pulse.  Although much weightier then my Zebra pen, it does much, much more. 

Can a network cable or jack be split?

The other day my wife asked me if it's possible to split the network jack in her office.  She needs to do it because wireless isn't feasible and often other co-workers visit her and need an internet hook up.  She was wondering if the network jack works like a phone jack with a splitter.

Watching the Bears costs man $27,000

Taken from CNET.

We all know the Chicago Bears went no where this year.  None-the-less, Bears fans are a devoted, rowdy bunch.  So much so that a man on a cruise used his laptop to watch the Bears-Lions game on an AT&T mobile broadband card.  The broadband card allows your laptop to access the internet where you have a cellular signal.  That includes roaming areas.

Doldrums for Wind Energy...

Study delivers blow to urban microwind turbines - A multi-site study in the U.K. finds that a marginal wind resource, particularly in cities, means that rooftop small wind turbines are unlikely to meet manufacturers' claims. [Technology News (CNET)]

Free Screen Savers?

I was helping a customer setup a new computer recently.  I got their network up, printer installed, walked them through Windows Media Center, showed them how to use the wireless and so on and so forth.  When all the technical things were done I asked if they need help with anything else:

"I would like to have my old Aquarium Screensaver."  They responded.

Don't Like DRM with your iTunes music?

Don't know what DRM is?  Well it stands for Digital Right Managment.  Depending on what side of the isle you stand on it can be a good thing and it can be a bad thing.  If you're a record label or artist it's a good thing because DRM makes it harder to steal your product.  If you are an end user, some one who just buys music, it can be a royal pain in the butt.

What is a good laptop for my child?


What is a good laptop for my child?

A common question, laptops come in different shapes, sizes, brands, etc.  It’s hard to find the “right one”.    Some schools use Mac, while others use Windows.  With so much choice out there, a good problem to have, how do you make the right choice?

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