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Barnes & Noble Nook for Fathers Day
If you have been reading this blog for awhile, you know that my stand on e-book readers has softened from “firmly…staunchly…against”, to “I understand that the stories (and authors) are not going away”, to…. Well gee…..I now have the Nook !! Was I enthusiastically looking forward to firing it up and using it (like a…
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Living in the Cloud
OK, this was eye-opening. At last night’s GeekMeet meeting at AltamontCowork, member Phil showed us how he could boot up his new Netbook with several different Operating Systems (Chrome OS, Android OS, Windows 7, and three flavors of Linux) each loaded on their own SD memory card (4 Gig). Very impressive. Since I use Google…
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Telecommuting = Coworking = Telework
OK, this is ridiculous. Folks….it is 2010. The Internet is at nearly everyone’s feet, computers have evolved into lean mean mobile machines, phones have done the same. Social networks abound, email, IM, Twitter, Facebook, videoconferencing, voice, video, and data….all at your fingertips. Airports, train stations, McDonalds, Starbucks, Barnes & Noble, just about every where there…
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Vidyo’s 1440p Videoconferencing Capability
Update July 2023: A History lesson in videoconferencing. Enjoy! 🙂 Say good-bye to 1080p videoconferencing (gee, we hardly knew you). Welcome the new resolution champ: 1440p. Yup, 1440p which gives you up to 2560 x 1440 pixels instead of the measly 1080p which is only (how funny….I said only) 1920 x 1080 pixels. And you…
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3D TV Will You Buy?
Is a 3D TV on your list of must buys?online survey
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Lifesize LIVE Streaming from InfoComm
Once again I am sitting at my AltamontCowork desk dreaming of the old days…. This video is being streamed at 1 Mbps (I am viewing it on my trusty old Toshiba Laptop vintage 2006 with Windows XP), wireless, using Chrome browser. I have Comcast Business Internet with download of about 25 Mbps and up stream…
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Apple iPhone 4 and Videoconferencing
I wrote a blog entry on this blog a few years ago when the first iPhone came out. I thought it would change the direction of cell phone technology…it pretty much has. 🙂 Everyone was anxious today to see the latest announcement. With regards to the videoconferencing capability. Maybe I have been around videoconferencing too long,…
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Can I Live Without a Newspaper?
Update August 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson. 🙂 Enjoy! This week, our beloved Tracy Press announced it would deliver the paper once a week. Friday. That news drove home the fact that, sadly, print newspapers are quickly going the way of the 8 track tape, tubes, the Edsel, and ISDN videoconferencing… Sunny (our 10…
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Anybots Robotic Videoconferencing
I wrote a blog entry a couple of years ago on a robot that could do videoconferencing. See this link. I never heard anything more… Here is newer product (Anybots) that is, I believe, getting close to release. Just thought you might like it…..I still think the idea is cool. Imagine a child sick at…
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Cleaning our Dell Computer
UPDATE January 2023: Consider the below a HISTORY LESSON. 🙂 OK, our desktop DELL (that is it’s name: DELL) is about hmmm, 6 years old now. When we bought it, I bought the fastest, biggest, machine possible hoping it would last. It has. It has been almost perfect (had to replace a CD disk and…
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