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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Put Your Laptop on a Leash with an Android Phone

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There’s a lot of free wireless (wifi) out there. It seems like it’s almost everywhere. The problem with that wifi is that it’s not always available or completely reliable. Worse, it’s not always available or reliable when you need it the most.

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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Tethering - Having Your Cell Phone Cake….and Eating It Too!

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For as long as cell phones have been around there has been the ability to tether them in some form to devices such as computers and PDAs. However, not until the advent of SmartPhones with their built-in Internet access and unlimited data plans, coupled with the ease of implementing tether software, has using the cell phone as a tether been so widely popular.

In this Tech Tip we are going to take a look at tethering in general, some tethering (and other) software available as well as some implications of using tethering.

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Sunday, June 27, 2010

The “skinny” on the iPhone 4

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It’s been a busy two weeks in tech news for us geeks. With Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) and E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), there’s been a flurry of announcements, demos, and releases with more to look forward to. The thing I’m most excited about is Apple’s iPhone 4™ and in this Tech Tip I’ll tell you some things that should help you decide if the iPhone 4 is right for you.

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Sunday, May 02, 2010

“Late to the Party” Must-Have iPhone Games

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With tilt controls and the Multitouch interface, the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and now the iPad present unique platforms for gaming experiences not offered on other portable gaming devices. There are more than 185,000 applications on the App Store and almost a third of them are games.

The App Store, as convenient as it might be, is deluged with new content every day, so it’s hard to tell what’s good from what’s not and the rating/review system is usually of no help. Sadly, if a game is not extremely popular, it’s often buried deep in the store and not every game comes with a free demo to try. This makes word of mouth recommendations very powerful.

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