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Category: Cool Tech

  • 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…

  • SmartShopper Review

        Rating:  3 WaterTowers I was browsing through the Amazon web site looking for something cool for my wife for Christmas when I stumbled upon the SmartShopper. It struck me that this could be the perfect product, and that if it worked as well as the reviews said it does, the SmartShopper could change…

  • Election Day Technology – Hologram Reporter

    If you were not watching CNN last night…here is a very cool application they used to talk to a reporter in Grant Park in Chicago. Hologram reporter….very cool. Embedded video from CNN Video If anyone knows a techie person at CNN who can give me the details, I’d love to post a simplified version of…

  • Garmin Nuvi 350 Review

    Garmin Nuvi 350 Review

    Update July 2023: I completely forgot about this blog! Consider this a HISTORY of technology lesson. 🙂 Enjoy! Rating: 4 WaterTowers To help my wife navigate with out reading a map (like she can do that) and without me….we purchased a Garmin Nuvi 350 GPS (Global Positioning System….hmmmm, in the old days is was Satellite…oh…

  • Google SketchUp

    The other day I found a link to Google SketchUp. I downloaded it and started to draw. The picture above is a crude representation of what you can do with SketchUp. I am not an artist, and it shows. However, if you are, and spend the time, there are some very powerful tools in SketchUP…