Taking Your Laptop on the Plane
ThWhen you go to the airport with your laptop, you are forced to go through the annoyance of removing your laptop from its bag and placing it in a bin. However, the TSA last month announced the results...
View ArticleKindle No Longer So Cost Effective
Image by MARQUINAM via Flickr Not long ago, we were on a plane and someone across the aisle had Amazon‘s Kindle. The Kindle, if you’ve missed it, is an E-Book reader. And if anyone had the power to...
View ArticleAsus Eee 1000HE
Image via Wikipedia For those of you following the netbook craze, there is new Asus Eee out there. Engadget has a roundup of various reviews. The HE is built around a new six-cell battery and offers...
View ArticleSirius Radio Impresses Us With its Customer Service
Image by tbertor1 via Flickr One of the mixed joys of being tech people is being called upon to help other people with their technical problems. So, when a family member returned from a long vacation...
View ArticlePacking your Bag
Image via Wikipedia Recently, we did a post on behalf of Infrequent Flier on the subject of packing a bag with your mobile electronics. We wanted to explore the idea further, as such a bag wouldn’t...
View ArticleSkype Updates its Linux Offering
Image via CrunchBase Skype, long lagging in its Linux support, after nearly two years of nothing, released version 2.1 in Beta, bringing with it a multitude of new offerings. It shows that Skype is...
View ArticleThe Problem with Verizon Wireless Apps
Image via Wikipedia On Friday morning, we were sitting around with our Verizon phone and discovered a new Twitter app had appeared as available. Called Tweet-Tweet, it costs $1.49 a month or $3.99 for...
View ArticleShould You Still Wait to Buy a Kindle?
Image via CrunchBase Amazon is cutting the price of its Kindle 2 to $259, the second drop in the last few months. It is also offering an ‘international’ Kindle for $279, with shipping to begin on...
View ArticleYou and Your Android
Image by Arvid via Flickr Recently, several members of the Wisdom family got themselves Android(TM) based phones. We all dived wholeheartedly into the application phone lifestyle. The term smartphone...
View ArticleAmazon Reveals Cloud Music – Google Next?
Amazon announced Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player, a digital storage and music locker service. The first 5GB are free, 20GB is $20 a year(first year is free with the purchase of an album),...
View ArticleAdventures in Global Smartphone Travel – Call for Feedback
Recently, we started making plans to travel out of the country for the first time since most of us here at the Weneca Media Group got a smartphone. Since that time, the advice given about...
View ArticlePreparing Your Phone for Global Use
Back in October, we discussed some of the thoughts we were having regarding smartphone use abroad. Now we’re back to talk about how it played out. We’re Verizon customers, and Verizon Wireless is a...
View ArticleMaking and Receiving Calls Overseas
For many of us, our phone usage has migrated from voice to text and data. Few phone calls are made. So, this means, either the higher costs of making a call are not an issue, since you will not make...
View ArticleGoogle Music vs. Amazon Cloud Drive – Some Limitations
Out of the various online music lockers that are springing up, Google Music seems to have the best interface for metadata. This is especially important if you intend to be able to sort through your...
View ArticleCan a Tablet be your Primary Computer?
Harry McCracken, who write the Technologizer blog, wrote a story in December entitled: “How the iPad 2 Became My Favorite Computer.” In it, he asked whether or not an iPad can replace a PC? Being as...
View ArticleAmazon MP3 Drops Linux Support, Adds DRM-Lite
As we’ve previously mentioned, we’ve been redoing our music collection. Now, after weeks of part-time ripping, and some cleanup, it is time to upload the music to various sites, as a test. Amazon has...
View ArticleFeed Changes
To All RSS Subscribers: Due to the recent uncertainty regarding the future of Feedburner, we are removing all redirects to Feedburner. All links on the site will now use local feeds. If possible,...
View ArticleBack to Thinking About Podcasting Studios
Audio equipment has a special passion for us for some reason. None amongst our numbers are musicians per se, but the interest remains. As you may know, the Android Buffet podcast is also a project of...
View ArticleChrome OS without Google
I have spent a good deal of time with Chrome OS and the Chromebook. The one troubling thing about it is not that it is an operating system in a web browser. You know that going in. It is Google. Recent...
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