Today Asus announced their plans for their line of 8`laptops. In my previous post, I told you why I chose the iPod Touch. My friend Barbara chose an Acer Aspire. Barbara is a 25 year veteran of Management Consulting, specializing in financial, manufacturing and payroll software and processes for SME businesses. She is currently expanding [...]

I was an early adopter the iPod Shuffle … I used to have a mind-numbing job and I had to share office space with two socially impaired geeks who rambled on and on about gaming and chicks (their words not mine .. and to this day, I don’t think either of them has been within [...]

As regular readers are aware, I have issues with cellphone plans. I’m Canadian, so our plans are outrageously expensive. Last month I made the decision to ditch my Blackberry 8703e and go back to a dumb cellphone. I love the Sanyo S1. It’s a good cellphone, and doesn’t need to be charged every other day. [...]

Last week I wrote a post about my issue with my Blackberry 8703e. I gave it one more try, but the software to synch this thing requires too much effort. It’s not even a good cellphone and it spends a lot of time on the charger .. FAIL .. Dell announced the mini Inspiron laptop [...]

Google Chrome has been available for about two and a half hours. I’ve downloaded it and I’m using it to access WordPress to write this blog. It is screaming fast!!!! We had a shaky start. It hung trying to import my history, passwords and bookmarks. Okay, so I’ve been saving bookmarks since the earth was [...]

In a land far away and a time long ago, I was a UNIX System Administrator. It doesn’t get any geekier than that. Fast forward to 2008 and I’m obsessed with blogging. Who knew those geek skills would be useful in real life? Business blogs are becoming more and more popular and a hosted WordPress [...]

The four free web applications I can’t live without are Jing, PicniK, Firefox3 Addons and Google Reader Jing I wrote a post when I first discovered Jing and I’ve come to rely on it for tasks I’m sure the developer never thought of. I save account and password information using Jing. It’s so easy that [...]

Have you noticed a lot of odd-looking URLs embedded in Facebook News Posts, Twitter Tweets, e-mail messages and even newsletters? They usually look something like this: http://tinyurl.com/5qxhly . This one was created using the TinyURL service. It’s the most commonly used of these services and their main function is to shorten long and sometimes confusing [...]