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Is Your Life Fragmented? Mine Is! But My Hard Drive ISN’T with the new Diskeeper 2011

March 22, 2011

Just yesterday I was thinking how nice it would be to be able to split myself into multiple fragments, each part commissioned to do something else. One would go to work, one would help get my kids to school, one would catch up on all of the “honey do” items around the house, one would [...]

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From the Tablet Clutter and Chaos Comes “The 10 Tablet Commandments”

January 25, 2011

Apple has tablet competition…and lots of it. The iPad has been reigning supreme for over a year and only now are some possible contenders starting to pop up. The next iPad model is due in April, or so the rumors are saying. By all intents and purposes, Apple is well ahead in the tablet race [...]

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How To Automatically Set Up your Mac’s Work Environment Based on WiFi Location Detection – AirPort Location

January 21, 2011

There is a lot of great free software out there that provides tremendous value. Smart programmers always want to showcase their talents and I love the fact that there is a never ending stream of interesting applications coming from the developer community. I won’t even start to mention some of the free Mac apps that [...]

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Ford Truly Deserves to be at CES: Ford Sync AppLink & 2012 Ford Focus EV Pave the Way!

January 11, 2011

For many, many years, I never thought much of Ford . I had been unimpressed with their cars (with a few exceptions like the Mustang) and especially with their styling and technology. In the 80′s and 90′s, to me, Ford was “just another American car” which said a lot. All of the technology, style and [...]

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Not Just Next Gen Gaming, but Future Computer Interaction? Xbox 360 with the Kinect

December 17, 2010

My family and I have had the Xbox 360 and Xbox Kinect for about a month now, and I must say that I’m personally impressed by the level of technology that has gone into the Xbox Kinect. I’m not a huge gamer and neither are my kids. Of course, we pretty much have everything: Nintendo [...]

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“For the Love of Thighs and Breasts” – Cast of Dads Podcast #35

November 22, 2010

Well, the last episode had some gremlins doing a number with CC’s voice. And there is actually now a “missing episode” of Cast of Dads that never even made it to production…the same gremlins were at play. But we recorded Episode #35 “For the Love of Thighs and Breasts“ just in time for Thanksgiving. So [...]

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A Convergence of Offices – Office for Mac 2011 & Office 2010 for Windows

November 8, 2010

I must admit, I’ve been pretty lucky when it comes to getting early access to the latest versions of Microsoft Office. Earlier this year, I participated in a program set up by Microsoft called “Office 2010 Real Life Stories”. Leveraging the success of that program, I was able to get involved in the tail-end of [...]

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Get Beyond those Home Video Style Webcams & Move to HD with the Microsoft LifeCam HD Cinema

October 25, 2010

Let’s face it, when you buy a laptop, you don’t usually think about the built-in webcam. But if you look at many of the laptops out there, you will see that the built-in webcams are dramatically underpowered and are pretty much like using a really old camcorder to do video calls or webcam-related actions. Many [...]

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