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With spring approaching fast, a lot of people are getting ready for outdoor activities, like bicycle riding.
Many, in fact, are turning to bicycles as a way to be more green, to commute to their jobs on two wheels instead of four.
Whether for work or fun the folks who make Google maps have added a new service worth checking out: Bicycle maps, the safest and best bike route between two locations.
Enter in two addresses and, just like that, Google’s new bicycle mapping service displays a suggested route on a detailed map, utilizing bicycle paths and trails, sidewalks, bike lanes and back roads...
It started with the iPhone and now, touch screen technology is showing up everywhere, including computers. But then, our home computers are being used for lots more these days, too. That’s what we have for you this week, a look at a very handy all-in-one home computer that shows off the many different ways we’re using computers.
Remember what a big deal it was when you could use your fingers to navigate on an iPhone? Now you can do this on a home computer, too. Case in point: The MSI AE2220 Wind Top.
It borrowed something else besides touvh screen navigatopn from Apple. It comes with...
When it comes to new ways of connecting, communicating and organizing our life, technology and the Internet has sure been on the move. But one company these days has been particularly busy.
Google, the Web search giant, has been adding a slew of new features that are basically free and take the online experience to a whole new level.
Here’s three of my favorite new Google offerings.
This is Google’s new voice telephone service… which not only gves out free telephone numbers but then actually transcribes your phone messages and emails you a written record. You can still play the calls...
Technology marches on. Remember when VHS tapes were the rage? Now, of course, it’s DVDs. But what do do with all those memories stored on those old VHS tapes?
Transferring them to DVD has never been easier… or more affordable.
Take a look around your house and I bet you’ll find VHS tapes stacked in closets an on shelves and in boxes out in the garage.
If you’ve had them for awhile, and the sound and images on those tapes are important to you, listen up. These tapes deteriorate rapidly. In fact, after 10 years, they breakdown. Significantly. It’s a chemical problem at its...
It’s a big world out there and an even bigger universe that – strange as it may sound - technology has actually made smaller and much more understandable. Thanks to incredible advances in astronomy and computer processing, the universe can be explored from your home PC… even your mobile phone.
Here’s a guide to some of the coolest software you’ve ever seen:
With just a few mouseclicks, you now have the universe at your control. Powerful software once available only for planetariums now is either free or so affordable anyone can tap into the secrets of the universe.
Of the dozens...
Here comes Valentine’s Day and big sales in chocolate and greeting cards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But to help make this Valentine’s Day a bit different, I’ve come up with some online suggestions on how to appreciate and celebrate the holiday in some creative, new ways.
A site called Gifts.com is not a bad place to start, with their Love-O-Meter guide that offers Valentine suggestions for every stage of a relationship, from just met to long married.
Want some gift ideas? For Valentines’s Day gifts for men, the RomanceStuck site suggests cufflinks with a secret personalized message from you,...
If it seems to you that everybody these days is on Facebook, that’s because, well, everyone is. More than 350 million people in fact, enough to make the popular social networking site bigger than most nations.
But with Facebook’s massive popularity has come new problems. It happened because of recent privacy changes Facebook made that users may not realize leaves their personal details exposed for the world to see,
You may think only your Facebook friends can see your postings, pictures and status updates. But changes Facebook made to its privacy policy in December have left the lives of...
Despite years of warnings, we still get those scam emails from Nigeria and other far flung places offering us huge sums of money if we’ll help someone claiming to be a banking or political figure smuggle out a fortune. It’s called the 419 scam after a law in Nigeria that prohibits such practices. While the scam continues, it’s produced a counterforce, a group of Internet vigilantes that turns the tables of the fraudsters by… scamming the scammers.
The 419 Eater website is a place dedicated to what’s called Scambaiting, or intentionally responding to those 419 scam emails, leading...
The new year 2010, they say, will be THE year for social networking, led by the hugely popular Twitter service that send out those short, 140-character updates.
How to manage those Tweets and get more followers is a major online activity these days. I’ve found three tools that will help you manage those social networking tasks.
Twitter seems to be where all the online buzz is these days. Check out a Twitter popularity measuring site like Twitterholic and you’ll see that it’s all about how many followers you have…many politicians, athletes and celebrities have millions and millions...
It’s a brand new year and if you are like most Americans, you’ve set some New Year Resolutions for 2010.
Experts tell us that year after year, the top three are losing weight, getting in shape and getting organized.
Technology and the Internet can help you reach your goals.
If you’ve determined to lose weight this year, click on over to Spark People. It’s a free and powerful social networking site dedicated to providing support, advice and, perhaps most importantly online tools to track your nutrition and exercise. A key part is the community. You can plug into Spark Teams with others...
It’s the week after Christmas and all through the land, one phrase can be heard from those with phone clutched firmly in hand: “Help! It doesn’t work!”
These are the days when you don’t want to be working the help desk of an electronics or computer company. Nor do you want to have to call them.
You are not going to get through without having to wait a very long time.
For these first couple of weeks after Christmas are when all those gleaming, nicely wrapped high tech presents that were so eagerly unopened yesterday are in various stages of assembly or sitting idly by, non working and...
As excitement builds for Santa’s big day, parents are once again turning to the Internet to help their children anticipate his arrival. Technology will help track those Christmas Eve deliveries from North Pole takeoff to your rooftop.
The Santa Tracker goes live Christmas Eve, once again combining the search power of Google and the NORAD missile-tracking people.
It all goes live on Christmas Eve, Using data from Norad and mapping displays from Google Earth, the Santa Tracker site shows videos and projects updates in ways aimed at delighting kids and their parents.
In the days leading up to Christmas...
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