Information on where to buy things
Buying a new smart phone these days has suddenly gotten very complicated. Not only do you have to decide on a carrier before getting started, you also have to to decide if you want an iPhone, a Blackberry, a Windows phone or an an Android. The iPhone part is easier than the others, you only…
Happy Thanksgiving! I had time to kill before my brother and sister in law arrive from Southern California and the holiday begins, so I have spent the last hour or so looking for some on line “bargains”. I have found a load of of somewhat dubious websites that look like they were just set…
As much as I love my iPad 2, I haven’t really adapted to the on screen “keyboard” that Apple thinks we should use to enter data! Even though I am a two fingered typist, and shouldn’t be bothered by the lack of tactile feedback, I am. I really like the idea of using a keyboard…
When the iPad 1 came out I picked one up to evaluate. I returned it to the Apple store 14 days later because it wasn’t capable of doing some of the things that I needed it to do. You can imagine the surprise on the faces of the Apple Store employees when they got my…
I am often asked “what laptop should I buy?” The answer of course depends on the intended use and the budget the person asking the question has set aside. But, after those two issues are decided, they want to know which specific brand and model is best. Essentially, I am being asked to do their…
Over the past few months I have been working one on one with real estate agents teaching them how to use Facebook to promote their businesses and themselves. I’ve also been teaching agents how to use various software products that are designed to improve their productivity. Among other things, I have found that the biggest…
Last Friday (March 11th) I was in front of my computer a few minutes past midnight. Even though I am usually up fairly late, that was a new level in “lateness” for me. I was up that late so that I could go online to apple.com and order an iPad 2. Having stood in line…
Yesterday I went shopping with my two grandsons. They had received some Best Buy gift cards as Christmas presents and those gift cards had been “burning a hole” in their pockets ever since. The oldest grandson had no trouble picking out what he wanted which was a WiFi adaptor for his xbox 360. We looked…
It’s that time of the year! Thanksgiving is only 10 days away and that means that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are 11 and 14 days away as well. I shouldn’t have to tell you what they are, but if you need a refresher, here are links to Wikipedia articles that will fill you in…
As I write thus, I am at about 30,000 feet above the Pacific and about 90 minutes from landing at SFO. I just spent 15 wonderful days in Maui. Nothing too remarkable about that except for the fact that this was the first such trip that didn’t see me hauling along my complete portable office. …
