Personal Technology Information
5 New Year’s Resolutions and Apps to Help You Accomplish Them
The new year marks a fresh start and another opportunity to set goals for what is ahead. Developing a plan is simple, but holding yourself accountable and tracking progress can make it difficult to stick with your objectives for the entire year. Make 2024 different by utilizing apps to stay on track.
Hot Tech Tips to Prepare for Cold Weather
As winter vibes roll in and freezing temperatures take over many parts of the country, it’s important to ensure your tech stays resilient and frost-free.
Cut Costs, Not Your Connection: How to Get Home Internet for Less
If you’re struggling with access to reliable and affordable wireless home internet, you’re not alone. In fact, more than 20% of Americans living in rural areas and nearly 30% of Americans living in Tribal lands lack internet access, compared to only 1.5% of those living in urban areas. To make matters worse, the average American shells out about $75 each month for internet service, with over a third saying that cost is one of the biggest hurdles in getting their hands on home internet.
Best New Tech Gifts for the Person Who Has Everything
Most of us have at least one loved one who’s hard to shop for. Maybe it’s because they insist that they have everything they need already or perhaps they simply have discerning taste. To get a jumpstart on your holiday shopping, consider these five, functional and fun gift ideas that promise to impress even the most challenging gift recipients:
Would Your Pricey New Smartphone Survive a 6-Foot Drop?
Despite space age materials and hefty price tags, today’s top-of-the-line smartphones are still prone to damage, and consumers without protection plans are facing sticker shock at repair shops.
Little iPod Wonders
It is no wonder that ipods are getting fun poked at them by movies this year. It seems as if the ipod is taking over the world. Everywhere you go you see them, they are attached to adults and children alike and they are all over the television and in the movies, it is getting a little insane.
IP Addresses: Finding, Understanding and Using
IP addresses are like real-world addresses, they are identifiers for computers or devices connected to TCP/IP networks. The entire TCP/IP networking protocol is based on the concept of a unique IP address for every object connected to the network. Messages sent via TCP/IP networks are routed to their destination based on the IP address.
A Hurricane of Personal Technologies in the Near Future
Personal technologies are very interesting and if you read the personal Tech Newsletters and magazines they are quite popular with the techie crowd and more and more the mainstream reader. There always seems to be something new and something to write about in personal Tech.
Animated Wallpaper
Animated wallpapers are applications that place special animations, screen savers and media files directly on the desktop. This makes them different from a typical desktop wallpaper, which is just an image in the background. These applications allow full-fledged 3 dimensional animations, screen savers and media files to be displayed directly in the background.
Digital Cameras
But perhaps no product has been more affected by digital technology than the camera.
Portable DVD Players Versus Laptops
For some the big discussion is...should we get a 'portable dvd player" or just spend more money a get a laptop that will play our dvd movies?
Computer Training - Building a PC, Piece By Piece
Building a computer from piece by piece is the best way to get the computer you really want, in addition to being an entertaining process. There are many different parts that make up a computer but it doesn't take long to learn.
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