Category: tips

  • Today’s topic items include: CPU cooling; widescreen monitors; and storage. The source is one of my favorite magazines called MaximumPC.  The prodcuts mentioned are all "Kick Ass" aware winners with 9 or 10 out of 10 scores: CPU cooling: CoolerMaster’s Hyper 6+ widescreen monitors: Dell Ultrasharp 2405FPW storage: Hitachi Desktar…

    + , ,
  • PC Magazine for 23Aug05 examines PCs for Back To School.  They looked at both laptops and desktops. On the notebook side the Gateway M250XL gets a PC Magazine Editors’ Choice award up against the Avertedc AV4265-EH1, Dell Inspiron 700m, the HP Compaq Presario V2000, and the Toshiba M45-S165.  On the…

    + , , , , ,
  • While I am pretty happy with using X1 Desktop Search for Windows v5.0 on my primary work system, I have been considering installing one of the free search tools on my home podcasting system. One of the ones that I think is now at the top of my list is…

    + , , ,
  • Today we look real quickly at a pointer from Jeremy Hague about a new tool from Netralia called Skylook that integrates Microsoft Outlook and Skype.  There is also a 14-day trial version available for evaluation. TechPodcasts.com’s GotoMeeting special event is this Saturday the 13th of August 2005. Take $5 off…

    + , , ,
  • Today’s tech news is from Visio Cafe which we have talked about in the past. This "collective" is working to bring Microsoft Visio technology diagrams from industry vendors to the Internet without charging for the stencils. Recently they announced a bunch of updates to their Hewlett-Packard collection.  So go and…

    + , , , ,
  • Review USA Today article about the growing trend of professional tech support solutions in the United States: Geek Squad by Best Buy, CompUSA, and Geeks On Call Also I had a great vacation at Lake Tippecanoe in Indiana.  If you want more information I created a dairy on my personal…

    + , , ,
  • Kreg Steppe examines "screencasts."  You can learn more via listening, and then checking out these links: www.blogcastrepository.com   www.myscreencasts.com   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast My Odeo Channel (odeo/95a2aab6178ef366) Please check out TechPodcasts.com’s GotoMeeting special event!

    + , , ,
  • Kreg Steppe examines the PocketPC software Sidewindow tool that enables your PDA to act as an extension to your PC system desktop for displaying pictures, media player, or other applications.

    + , , ,
  • Today we look at two items: one on personal productivity and the other on audio engineering. If you are interested in David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) then you definitely want to check out 43folders.com and their related Google mailing list. There have been two very interesting web-based tools that…

    + , , , , ,
  • If you have HP products and a support agreement then you’ll want to check out HP’s new Software Update Manager (SUM) that is for the U.S. only right now.  This service lets you personalize software updates via automated tools and email notifications.  This podcast also includes some input from my…

    + , ,