Your First Home Office Network
“Telecommuting” – it’s the only way to fly! Being able to work from home will change how you think about work. And setting up a home network is easier now than ever. Gone are the days when you had to study wheel vs. ring vs. serial diagrams – network capable devices [...]
The Top Time Management Tools
Time management seems at first to be a modern concept, but really it isn’t. The first step in time management is keeping track of it, and so every time-keeping device going back to the dawn of recorded history is a time management system. Even Stonehedge! Stonehedge was originally built to track [...]
Testing Your IQ Online
In recent years, the view of the IQ model has changed. It used to be believed that your IQ was the brains you were born with, nothing more. You were only so smart your whole life, your score was innate. Now we have a better understanding of cognitive functioning, and so neurologists [...]
Getting your next software project done on time can be a matter of factoring a whole lot of variables. Time, resources, features and not forgetting the client’s feature creep.
Now before I get flamed for trying to document “the impossible” or get any more “keep livin’ the dream, buddie” tweets, let’s look at the basics – [...]
Time Management Tips
In our increasingly busy society, we find ourselves barely able to fit everything we want to do into a day. If you feel like your days are slipping by without getting enough done, here are some time management hints from the experts:
1. Build your vocabulary. That surprised you, didn’t it? The fact is, [...]
What is a Torrent?
You might be hearing it batted around on the web here and there, and even in other media like newspaper or TV: “Download the Torrent,” “Seed a Torrent,” “Visit our Torrent-tracker,” and so on. So, just what is this latest tech gizmo and why is everybody talking about it?
Torrents are just a [...]
What Are the Most Innovative Careers For a Tech Graduate?
Some people get out of college, clutching their new diploma, and survey the job field with a finicky air. Sure, sometimes you want to go where the money is, or where there’s the most stability, but for the starry-eyed dreamers amongst us, the principle attraction of [...]
How To Give a Charity Gift
What, your recipient wants nothing for themselves, but instead wishes that a donation be made in their name to someone less fortunate? Aw, how sweet! No matter what their proclivities are, this is a commendable move, and it takes an unusually socially conscious person to turn their nose up at [...]
Over and over, we keep hearing about drives to bring a personal mobile computer to every student. There was the famed – but ultimately ill-fated – XO Laptop, which was to be cheaply produced and sold directly to governments around the world for their citizen’s use. There’s now about 12 versions of their story out [...]
Sure, here you are, reading a gadget blog. You’re confident with computers and mobile devices of every shape and size, you know all the jargon, you’re plugged into the blogosphere and digital gizmos hold no more mystery for you. And you probably have a few friends who share your tech savvy.
But not everybody has that. [...]
