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Category: Computer

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Google TV

    Related to yesterday’s blog posting (funny how I timed that blog entry…completely random, believe me), this article on Computerworld tells us that Google, Sony, and Logitech are planning to introduce an Internet capable (smart) TV. This Android-based TV (sure hope it will be High Def…interesting, Friend Paul posted this link on Facebook that mentions 1080p…

  • Home Networking Paradigm Shift

    Home Networking Paradigm Shift

    Figured I’d change the tone a bit for this blog.  Instead of heavy emphasis on product testing (which is time consuming and sometimes expensive), I’ll start commenting on things technical that strike my fancy or when I see interesting developments that I just can’t keep quiet about. The Old Days – Way in the Past…

  • Logitech V450 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse

    Rating:  4 WaterTowers (cool laser wireless mouse) Last night we went to Best Buy in Tracy, CA and, as usual, I browsed the aisles to find technology that, to me, might be new and exciting.  In the computer section, I saw the Logitech V450 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse and picked it up.  $50 or so.…

  • Posting from ipod touch

    Playing with my wife’s new 64g iPod touch,I downloaded a wordpress app (free) that allows me to post. Did this work? If so….very cool!

  • Moving a WordPress Blog

    Now that you are here, please BOOKMARK this location as all NEW blog entries will be here.  🙂 Quick update: My TracyReaderDad.com blog on Yahoo Hosting has been having problems the past two days.  Can’t get to it.  Yahoo support is working on it, but, so far no long term success.   If they can’t…

  • URL Shortening: A Quick Peek

    Since I have started using Twitter (see my twitter posts to the right) I have had to learn to live with 140 character messages. Quite a feat for me since I am struggling to keep my blog posts to 500 words or less. 😉 Rating:  4 WaterTowers (perfect for the Twitter generation) Looking at my…

  • Windows 7

    This article on CNN states that Windows 7 has been “finalized” and will be arriving Oct 22 (Hmmmm…they did not say 2009, I wonder?).      😉 I just bought an emachines (great computer!) at Costco with Vista on it.  Wow, that is / was a really bad OS.  I had the hardest time getting…

  • Google Tags Sites as Harmful

    This is interesting. (Refer to this article). I was doing some searches Saturday morning and saw that this Blog was tagged as being harmful by Google.  How weird. I also saw that EVERY listing had the same harmful tag on it. I then did a search on CBSNEWS and sure enough…harmful. I switched from Chrome,…