Microsoft’s newly released search engine Bing is up and running, and it appears to be a hit.
I have several items I keep in a search list that I look for every now and then. I immediately put Bing to the test with the list, and was quite pleased at the results. I was shown relevant [...]
04.24Warranty Woes
Call me unlucky. My late father used to say that if there were one hundred items on a shelf, and one was defective, then he was surely going to pick that one. I seem to have inherited that wonderful trait. Although some of the warranties were honored with either a repair, an exchange, or a [...]
Three days ago I wrote about cable television, and how at my home we stream content from the internet for our viewing pleasure. In the article, I mentioned our simple setup, including my trusty Toshiba Satellite laptop. Not two days after the article was posted, my trusty Toshiba Satellite was no more.
After traveling to a [...]
04.20Cable is dead to me!
This is a guest post by Keith Lemery, a professional chef, network administrator, husband and father. It was written to compliment and follow up the complete list of of websites to stream full tv shows and movies from.
Several months ago my wife and I decided to cancel our Time Warner cable television service. We [...]
Our data is everywhere! There is the data on your PC, laptop, netbook, phone, PDA, Media Center, online… you get the idea. Just thinking about putting a backup system in place can cause a serious headache, but even worse is the prospect of losing that data. This short guide is designed to help walk you [...]
A year and a half ago I bought my way into the cool club buy purchasing a Macbook. It’s been serving me very well and I’ve been so happy with it I actually sold my Windows desktop this past fall, the Macbook is now my only computer. The one thing I always felt slighted about [...]
Last year the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) campaign offered a buy one to be donated, get one laptop deal. They are doing it again this year and offering the same deal. For $399 you get yourself a sprite little lappy and one goes to a third world country. Some more on the laptops and [...]
More than has passed since I bought my way into the cool club by purchasing a Macbook laptop and I couldn’t be happier. At the time of purchase, I also ordered a Crumpler The Considerable Embarrassment Laptop Bag for it, based almost soley on the name and reputation of the company. Since I own one [...]
Last year I bought my way into the cool club with a Macbook and haven’t looked back. At the time of purchase there was a pretty hefty difference between the 120gb hard drive I got and the 160gb drive on the upgraded models, nothing else was readily available for the Macbooks and I figured the [...]
One laptop per child.
One laptop per child?
One laptop per child!
Huh…
How about one bottle of water per child.
How about one bottle of water per child per day.
How about eight bottles of water per child per day!
I look in all the corner delis across NYC overflowing with Evian, Desani, Poland Spring, Aquafina. You mean to tell me [...]