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Using Social Media for Education

Social media may have started out as a fun way to connect with friends, but it has evolved to become a powerful tool for education and business. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter and tools such as Skype are connecting students to learning opportunities in new and exciting ways. [...]

Work Shifting: common sense leads to new productivity

Work Shifting involves more than geographic location. It involves location, time, equipment, intellectual activation (mental readiness) and even social presence. Essentially, our present technology allows the worker to work when it is optimal. We are entering an age where not only time or location but especially computing device is flexible. [...]

“On-Line Sales Tax Legislation” HR 5660

There is no “New Internet Tax” — at least not in HR 5660. This article by John Dvorak appeared in a blog from PC Mag (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367551,00.asp). It is worth confronting at this time because it represents one serious problem with the blogosphere — laziness. [...]

Ten Habits of Bad Web Design

Every self-proclaimed “web designer” and “expert” does not necessarily know what she or he is doing. More often than not they are simply sales types who have decided “there is money to be made” in selling web sites, and they’ll fast talk inexperienced people into buying from them. Baseline Magazine reports ten of the worst mistakes you can [...]

Tax Software

US and Indiana Government links to file 2009 taxes for free. Selection and installation of H&R Block (Tax Cut) At Home under Windows 7 Ultimate. [...]

Notebook Failure Rates

A warranty service company reports on which notebook PCs need the most service. [...]

Notebook for Christmas

What to look for when buying a notebook or netbook computer. [...]

Windows 7 Upgrade Reboot Problem

(reference Network World, Computer World Articles)

Apparently a significant number of people who have tried to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 instead of doing a disk wipe and clean re-install are finding their computer locks up in a continuous reboot cycle: the install fails and then the computer reboots, the install fails and so forth. We only do clean installs, so we did not test this mode.

In a similar trouble report last July more …

Windows 7 Available

Microsoft has released Windows 7. It is much faster than Windows Vista and operates almost on a par with Windows XP. Microsoft has also priced Windows 7 much more favorably than Vista. [...]

Trend to watch: Android vs. Microsoft

Acer has announced availability of the new Google Android (Linux) OS on their AOD250 netbook. This represents a trend toward a ‘data pad’ device mid way between the smart phone and the netbook. Google OS is due in the second half of 2010 to compete head to head with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft may loose significant market share to Google (Linux). [...]