Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

I need to draw some new readership, I think. I really have no idea how, outside of submitting to a free web directory and that doesn’t really work all that well. It’s hard. Everyone wants to succeed, but not everyone can. I’m not sure what to do.
I know long posts don’t [...]

So here’s a little known piece of trivia about me. I went to college for business administration, but I was also working towards a second degree. I wanted to earn a degree in computer science. I wanted to work in software development. The problem, however, is that I didn’t take to [...]

Usually, having a wide selection from which to choose is an advantage. That allows us to identify the products which make the most sense given our personal tastes and circumstances, and many people love picking Cavalier Telephone. Having said that, when it comes to long-distance (LD) phone service, the variety of plans offered by carriers [...]

DSL Versus Satellite Broadband: Which Is Better?
Millions of people are confused about the differences between DSL and cable internet connections. Fewer still understand the advantages and disadvantages of satellite internet access. Potential subscribers who want to enjoy the fastest service for the lowest price are understandably bewildered by their choices. Fortunately, the decision is usually [...]

There is so much nonsense and drama online these days that I’d just like to smack the crap out of people when they start in. Especially on one of those days like I had today where I was trying to recover everything after reformatting my computer. I was also having MORE connection issues, [...]

Sometimes, I wonder if it’s possible to declare net-ruptcy like you can declare bankruptcy. Is there anything like debt consolidation for those of us who spread ourselves too thin? I mean, there’s blogging on whatever site like Livejournal or Blogger, Twitter, Plurk, Facebook and Myspace. There’s also Friend Feed, Flickr, G-Mail and [...]

They say that people online have this attitude like they can say or do anything they want and it won’t matter to anyone. This is not the case. There are are real people with feelings on the other side of the screen. I don’t know why people seem to think that the [...]

One thing that never ceases to amaze me about the IRS is the length of time that it takes for them to process things.  We did our taxes first thing this year, they were mailed before the end of January.  Yes, I said mailed.  We mailed them in because we had extra forms to send.  [...]

I forgot that today is Pi day! In honor of Pi day, however, I did partake in some pie. I made peanut butter pie today. Screw the peanut butter recall, I’m going to eat peanut butter if I want it. We checked to make sure ours wasn’t part of the recall. [...]

One of these days, I’m going to break down and get myself one of those nifty flash memory drives so that I can back up my documents and not have to worry about having space on my server. It’s kind of frustrating at times, especially when I’m wishing that I had my stuff when [...]

Okay, I’m not a big tech head, really.  I’m an end user more than anything.  So what on God’s green earth am I doing with Windows 7 Beta? I’m doing just what I wanted to do – I’m trying Windows 7 for myself before the complainers can ruin it for me like was done with [...]

In today’s world, more and more businesses have a web presence, a place where people can find information about your business before heading out of their house on a wild goose chase. Business Website Design is one of the most important things that you need to think about when you think that you want [...]

Okay, we all know that the digital transition is going to happen on February 17th. Well the other night, they turned off analog signal for 5 minutes so people could see if they are ready for it. I figured, no big deal, I just bought a new HDTV this summer for the main [...]

We’re living in a world that is almost completely cell phone driven. There are even studies that say that computers are going to become obsolete because of cell phones. This really doesn’t surprise me, but I don’t think that it will happen any time soon. They have to change things about the [...]

I wonder sometimes how companies decide who to target for their ads. For instance, for someone who is not a horse enthusiast, ads for horse supplies won’t get their attention. Yet, I’ve seen them on a lot of non-horse related sites. I thought the way ads were targeted better, but apparently, sometimes, [...]

Anyone who owns a domain of any sort needs to have some sort of hosting, right? Sometimes, domains come with webhosting, but not very often, so that means that you have to figure out which service is going to be the best for your needs. For instance, if you are going to host a [...]

With the Christmas shopping season on the upswing, everyone is trying to figure out what kind of gifts to get for the teenager on their shopping list. I know that, as the aunt of an 18 year old, it’s getting to be more and more of a struggle to figure out christmas gift ideas [...]

Some days, I feel like one of the most technologically challenged people on earth. I have a laptop and have considered getting a mobile router and air card for it, so that I can actually get more use out of it. I probably won’t because I don’t take my laptop anywhere, really.I don’t [...]

I still need to invest in a flash drive. There are no doubts about it. I have different computers, despite them being networked, it’d be nice to not have to rely on flaky network connections. Plus it would nice to be able to toss stuff on a flash drive to take to [...]

Every day there is at least 3 commercials for high definition television, especially with the Digital Conversion coming in February. I have to say that the transition bothers me greatly, but we have to take it and accept it whether we want to or not. I already upgraded one television, the other will [...]

I need to invest in some laptop memory soon. It’s frustrating to try to use it lately cuz Vista is a memory hog. What can I do tho? I didn’t get it to be able to run a ton and I should be able to use it for my tax class without a [...]

Does anyone know what a Cat5e Keystone jack is? I have no idea what it is. I try to keep up with technology and gadgets, but this one is something that I’ve never heard of. From looking at pictures, it’s a jack for networking cables along the same line as a telephone jack.Is [...]

Anyone who wants to have a blog or a website of any sort should consider hosting it themselves with their own domain. But in order to do that, you have to have a web host unless you have your own server. The question is, however, which one is the best? It’s pretty hard [...]

So much going on, so little time to get it done. It sucks, especially when I’m trying to work on stuff that requires the Internet and my Internet goes down for multiple hours. I was doing fine, then all of the sudden my connection started to drop. After a few minutes, it died [...]

Social Networking is not a new concept by any means, so it shouldn’t be surprising that more and more social networks are showing up on a daily basis. There are social networks for most everything, including those tho own and love pets. ZooToo is a new site that allows pet owners and lovers [...]