I was recently recommended a promotion from Amazon and Unilever for a $2 MP3 credit. I don't buy a whole lot of music and these small promotions are great because they tend cover a song or two on the rare occasion that I have a song in mind to buy. This promotion is easy enough. You just answer a question about what you would include in a care package. However, after you answer … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
Logitech introduces mice and touchpads for Windows 8
This past Summer, Microsoft unveiled their hardware designed to accompany Windows 8 with touch features. Today, Logitech introduced their line offering touch control on Windows 7 and Windows 8 with two mice and a touchpad. All three are wireless much to the chagrin of my personal preference but boast great battery life. … [Read more...]
Celebrating 50 years of the LED
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics was just awarded to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems". While quantum computers might be the future, today is also celebrating the 50th year since Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the first visible LED. Dr. Holonyak was 33 years old and a GE … [Read more...]
Use Group Policy to allow ping and remote management on Windows 7
One of the benefits of having computers joined to a domain and within a local network is the ability to manage things over the network pretty easily. Unfortunately, some basics are turned off by default. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to turn them on for your environment. Being able to see if a computer is powered on or on the network with a simple ping is a basic function. That … [Read more...]
Chirp.io teaches your phone to sing as a way to share
The Chirp app for iPhones and iPads gives your phone a bird song approach to sharing data with other phones. Your device will sing a song through its speaker and the receive song will hear it and get what you're trying to share. … [Read more...]