Tech

  • Windows Home Server

    As usual when it comes to new Microsoft technology, Paul Thurott has the definitive review of Windows Home Server. Yeah, it just makes me want it more. I especially dig the idea of having my photos be accessible remotely, easy backups, and having a center to my network without having to pay for a full…

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    Help Desk Radio

    Speaking of the drive down to Cincinnati, while scanning the dial this morning, I caught a few minutes of a show called “HelpDesk”, on WMUB, a college radio/NPR station in Oxford, OH. Turns out that the call-in show is broadcast on-line on Tuesday mornings, and is also available as a podcast. Could be an interesting…

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    SmartSetr

    Kevin Devin has a nice screencast over at Friends in Tech showing off a little tool he found from Eric Appel called SmartSetr that lets you create dynamic sets on Flickr by tag or date, etc. I’ll definitely be taking a look at that one soon. Another tool that I might take a look at…

  • I want, I want

    So far they are only rumors, or planned products with no pricing, but can I just say the idea of a Windows Home Server and a 1-Terabyte hard drive gets me excited? Or maybe it’s just been a long day and I’m easily excited? It was a very long day, the first day of maternity…

  • Who do you trust?

    Marc Orchant trusted Google, at least until he heard about a small number of folks who seem to have lost their Gmail accounts, now he’s madly using Google’s POP3 access to grab a copy of all the email he has stored in Gmail. I use Gmail, I also use Outlook to access Gmail and make…

  • The new smokers?

    I had to laugh when reading this column comparing blackberry users to smokers, in terms of the annoyance caused. As a blackberry user myself, it got my attention, but as I read it I realized that this was basically the same column I’ve read about cell phone users, and the bottom line was the same….