I recently purchased a new iPod; the Apple Nano 8GB, in silver. I don’t use my iPod very often. But when I do…I do!! It is billed as the most popular music player in the world. I can understand why…
I recently purchased a new iPod; the Apple Nano 8GB, in silver. I don’t use my iPod very often. But when I do…I do!! It is billed as the most popular music player in the world. I can understand why…
Wondering what to do with that Time Machine application that comes with the new Mac OS X Leopard? Have you thought about plunking $300 on Apple’s Time Capsule?
Don’t do it: wait until you read this review…
The LaCie Corporation have made hard disks for Macs since the beginning of time. They have a new external disk offering called the Big Disk Extreme 1TB. Let me first say yes, that’s 1000 gigabytes of storage! Doubling the offering of Apple’s Time Capsule device. At the time of writing this the disk was being sold for $224. That’s more than $80 in savings over the Time Capsule and twice the storage too. But is it worth it?
So, what is the first thing you do when you get a dead simple video camera? You take a video of your recent dental implant to send to your cousins in the UK! Imagine how happy my Doctor cousin was upon receiving such a wonderful surprise in their email.
What device am I talking about? The Flip Ultra video camera.
I’m a big fan of Bluetooth, but not Bluetooth headsets. I know, it’s probably a bit goofy, but I can’t help think that it’s a bad idea to have a wireless electronic device hooked over your ear and beaming random electrical waves into your skull.
Some modern phones have no options – either you use Bluetooth for a headset or you hold the phone itself up to your head – but fortunately the Apple iPhone has a very sophisticated headphone jack that actually lets you plug in a wired headset.
If you travel as frequently as I do, you’ve probably learned a few things about life on the road, tips that help you avoid problems and ensure that fluffy pillows are the biggest complaint you have, not lost data or crashed laptops.
One of my favorite tips, one that I have seen people ignore with really terrible results more than once, is to never apply a security update, patch or other system change when you’re away from your office. If it goes wrong, you’re in big trouble and you don’t have your local geeks around to help recover things.
The second rule of thumb is: back up your critical files before you leave on your trip and again at least once while on the road. Just in case.
That’s why I was glad to have an extended trip to Hawaii as an excuse to try out a few different approaches to data backup. The candidates: A Corsair 32GB flash drive, a Western Digital 160GB Passport drive and Memeo’s LifeAgent Internet backup system, all connected to my trusty MacBook Pro.
My brother recently got a call telling him that he could get his tax refund that’s part of the economic stimulus package early – and not have to wait until May or later. He almost gave his savings account number, but then he got suspicious. Now he wonders. Is this a scam?
Yes, it’s a scam. Even before Congress passed the $170 billion stimulus package to boost the economy, scammers started calling people to get their bank account and credit card information, so they could steal money, identities, or both.
Some scammers even claimed that you would lose your refund if you didn’t give them your personal and financial information immediately.
This is just one of over 1,000 IRS scams that is currently circulating. With the tax season upon us, scammers are now pulling out all the stops to fool their victims.
Here are some of the most popular IRS scams that are currently making the rounds…
Searched for a few things on your site and I hit pay dirt! Thank you. I’m am nonetheless uncertain on how to pick a MP3 player. I don’t know what factors to take into consideration in order to guide my choice. What do you suggest? I’ll use it mostly to listen to music on the train as I commute to work. I’m no tech wiz and one of the first things I’ll need to master is how to download, so a complicated gizmo won’t work out for me. So what should I consider : memory (how much is good?), size, weight, crash proof, compatibility with other technology that might be coming up, keys? As you can read, I have no clue!
I’m somewhat of an audiophile and have owned several pairs of high-end headphones. Trouble is, the thing that always breaks first on these headphones is the cord. I always get the cord caught in something or it gets broken somehow. Do you know of any solution to this?