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RIP Cormac McCarthy
"I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback...
Moving Company Files To The Cloud: Box.com Rides To The Rescue
Previously: The Problem With OneDrive For Business Box.com has matured into a service that meets the needs of small businesses and law firms for online file storage of shared...
Moving Company Files To The Cloud: The Problem With OneDrive For Business
Small businesses and law firms are ready to move their documents to the cloud. Until recently, I haven’t had an answer about how to accomplish that because none of the familiar...
Windows 8 Tip: Three Cool Wallpaper Tricks For Dual Monitors
Here are three cool wallpaper tricks for Windows 8 users with dual monitors. Set different pictures as wallpaper for each monitor You can use two different pictures as wallpaper...
Bluetooth Takes Center Stage
Bluetooth has been around for more than ten years powering our phone headsets but not much else. Now that we’re using phones and tablets as our primary technology devices,...
The Blind Men, The Elephant, And Windows 10
You remember the story – a group of blind men touch different parts of an elephant and compare notes. They discover that each of their perspectives is true but not the totality...
Skype Basics: What It Does And How To Install It
Skype has become a story of duplicates – two programs, two ways to log in. Skype’s core function is video and voice calls over an Internet connection to anyone else using Skype,...
Apple’s No Good, Very Bad Day
The picture above shows an iPhone 6 Plus being bent by someone with his bare hands, giving credence to complaints that the new iPhones are bending in some users’ tight jeans...
15Gb Bonus OneDrive Storage Space! Free! Limited Time Only!
Free! Additional 15Gb of OneDrive storage! Limited time only! Expires soon! Operators are standing by! Microsoft has been steadily improving OneDrive this year, dropping the...
Luxury Reading With The Kindle Voyage, And Other Amazon Mistakes
Amazon has been making some odd product decisions lately, and the latest was just announced today: the Kindle Voyage, a black & white e-reader with some modest improvements...
Windows 8 Tip: Explore the Bing Apps (Soon To Be “MSN Apps”)
Windows 8.1 includes six best-of-class apps designed to show off the Windows 8 full-screen Metro environment. Last week Microsoft announced that they will be rebranded as “MSN...
Surface Pro 3 Firmware Update Fixes Wi-Fi Issues
It’s Patch Tuesday and your computers are dutifully installing the usual crop of Microsoft updates and restarting overnight, or asking you to restart when you log in Wednesday...
Office 365 Tip: How To Set Up And Wipe Mobile Devices
One of the advantages of using Office 365 to host company email is its broad support for mobile devices. Office 365 mail can be set up across more platforms than almost any other...
Microsoft, Google And The Race To The Bottom
Microsoft and Google are stepping up their efforts to gain market share by encouraging manufacturers to sell large quantities of ultra-cheap phones, tablets and computers. And in...
Dropbox Lowers Prices, Still Comes Out Behind OneDrive
The cost of online storage continues to drop as Microsoft, Google and Amazon race to build out enormous online data storehouses. Last week Dropbox finally dropped its price for...
Bigger iPhones, New Android & Windows Phones, And Selfie Sticks
After a quiet summer, we’re heading into the season for new product announcements. Here’s a roundup of some of the phones that will be arriving soon. Apple - iPhones The big...