From the archive

April 2011

76 posts

Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock & Bed Shaker Review

When the folks at Sonic Alert reached out about a month ago and asked me if I would like to review the Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock and Bed Shaker I did so under one condition. That condition was that if it could get my  14 yr old out of bed in the morning, then I would declare it the best

GoDaddy Deluxe Hosting for Economy Pricing!

As you know I have been using a Deluxe Hosting account for some secondary sites, and have been very happy with the performance and ease of use. With this site being on a dedicated server for about 7 years now, I was totally blown away by how easy it is now to setup a  hosting account at GodDaddy.  The folks

Hands On: Netgear WN2000RPT WiFi Extender

Recently I received a review unit of the Netgear WN2000RPT WiFi Extender.  It's a tool that I am surprisingly well qualified to test.  You see, we live in an old, restored Victorian and my office, and router, are on the third floor.  However, most life takes place on the first two floors, where a laptop, tablet, and smartphones are in

AT&T Dead Zones in Hawaii!

I spend a lot of time in my car here in Hawaii and attempt to do some hands free business calls while I am mobile. It is a great utilization of my time given how bad the traffic is. Today was the final straw, I was disconnected a total of 23 times over a 150 minute period. For brevity sake,

GNC #666 My Wife wants What!

The month is winding down, but I could not be happier the team of writers at GNC have been kicking out some pretty awesome content. The refresh of the show formula so far is working and the feedback so far has been positive. I am on the search for existing talent across the new media space. Do you know of

NFL ’11-Keep Up With the Draft Live

This is a quick review of the NFL ‘11 on the [iPad], which can be used to follow the NFL draft.  On the application there are five tabs, draft live, draft tracker, teams, photos and video. The draft live tab, gives a live update of who been drafted and by what team.. It also tells you who is drafting next

Groupon Adds Some Personalization

Groupon has been the hottest tech company of the past year, even reportedly turning down an offer of $6 billion from Google.  They have approximately 35 million users, and I count myself among them.  If you are also among them and receive a daily deals email then you may have received a message about the new personalization options.  And, if

First Look – Google Docs Comes to Android

Today Google finally released a Docs app for Android.  It surprising that it took this long but the fact it's finally here has been met with a lot of fanfare.  The app allows users to create, edit, upload and share their documents.  Edits appear the almost instantly for other collaborators.  In addition to documents, users can view PDF's and images. 

O2 Prepares for the Royal Wedding

As the world is gripped by Royal Wedding fever (yawn), mobile phone operator O2 have blogged about their preparations from the big day. As you might expect, there will be a few more mobile phones, texts and picture messages sent from heart of London than you'd get on an average Friday in April but what might surprise you is how

Build a Custom Gaming PC at Walmart.com!

Honestly, this comes as quite a surprise. I would have never thought Wal-Mart and iBuyPower would team up to bring a custom gaming PC builder to Walmart.com but, that's exactly what they have done and Walmart says there are over 10,000 combinations available. Custom rigs start out at $599 and we can choose between 5 different cases. We'll also be

Locking Home Wireless Down

I'm one of a dozen people on my block who have wireless routers running in my house.  I've lived there eight years, and have had wireless almost the entire time.  I run a house full of computers from my router, including ones for the kids, my husband, a print server, a media server, and a handful of laptops.  From the

IntoNow

This past week Yahoo purchase IntoNow. What is IntoNow. IntoNow is a way to share what you are watching on TV with other people. It was launched in January 2011 into a ever growing field including Glue and Miso. The way intoNow works is you hold up your iphone, iPod Touch or iPad and hit a button on the IntoNow

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