my personal network
While I use my Google Reader account and iPad magazine aggregators as a primary source of how I gather information these days, the fact is, I read most of it (at least as a first time) using one of the utilities I have which strip most of the extraneous formatting and advertisements out of the [...]
There are plenty of RSS readers out there…offline readers, desktop readers, iOS readers, android readers, and so on… I have been using Google Reader as the foundation of my personal information network since 2005. If you subscribe to any Google products (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc.) using GReader is literally a no-brainer. It takes [...]
Over the last decade I have been incrementally becoming more and more mobile…at least with regard to computers and the internet. The changes in personal technology have allowed me to progress from being tied to a desktop computer system-through a variety of laptops-to my current set-up (a little NetBook, an iPhone, and an iPad). Every [...]
Along with my previous posts for this week, I am presenting some information related to some topics I always reevaluate for myself at the end of the year (I like nice round numbers as much as anyone…). Today I have some links related to personal online and computer security. There are so many anti-virus and [...]
There are so many new ways in which you can interact with the cloud these days that it might not be so important to try to enumerate them. I have used EverNote and DropBox for several years, and have been taking my time to evaluate Microsoft’s SkyDrive (you get 25 gigabytes of free online storage!), [...]
About this time, every year, I set take stock of the computer based tools I use. Foremost of these is the web browser. I have been a Firefox adherent for years, but have taken the time to try out Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome…on a yearly basis. Amazingly enough or me this time, Google Chrome [...]
I am a firm believer in using EverNote whenever I can; it is one of my mainstays in keeping a paperless life. Having said that, EverNote has been a worthwhile tool in itself, but now there are some new wrinkles to check out: EverNote Food is a tool which can allow you to document all [...]
In the past 5-10 years, I have been expecting to see more movement on the home network arena, especially regarding Network attached Storage (NAS). This acronym alludes to having storage devices (i.e. hard drives) sitting on your home network, accessible to all of the computers on your network. They exist, but considering the intrinsic value [...]
To those of us who spend lots of time online, the nature of what we are connected to is as important as how the power we use came from… The fact is that the big server farms which the big players use (i.e. Amazon, Google Facebook, etc.) need enormous amounts of energy to power all [...]
Back in the dim recesses of computer pre-history (i.e. 1992) Microsoft Word (and the rest of the Office suite) were in battle with WordPerfect, Word Star and a number of other word processors and some related spreadsheets… Since then it would seem that Microsoft has won the professional office suite wars….to the degree that this [...]
