How to Get Your iPhone 4 Free Case or Refund- Now Available
July 23, 2010 – 5:13 pm | No Comment

Apple and AT&T have released the details of how to get your free (or refund for already purchased) ”bumper”  that will eliminate the calls dropped by holding the phone along the antenna edge. See my blog …

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What is a Home Network? What is a Router? The Connected Home 101
February 23, 2010 – 4:18 pm | No Comment
What is a Home Network?  What is a Router?  The Connected Home 101

Don’t worry! It may not seem like it yet, but with my help, you’ll see Home networking is much easier than it used to be when you had to hire a professional to connect it …

Online Video is Keeping Cable Subscriptions Alive; Will Free Online TV disappear?
February 18, 2010 – 11:22 pm | No Comment
Online Video is Keeping Cable Subscriptions Alive; Will Free Online TV disappear?

We’ve been thinking that we can just get rid of cable and get all of our TV shows from online, but cable companies are finding ways to keep us subscribing.  This became evident when I …

Choosing Your Internet Speed– Google to Provide 1 Gb/s–what it means…
February 11, 2010 – 5:14 pm | One Comment
Choosing Your Internet Speed– Google to Provide 1 Gb/s–what it means…

I’m all for fast internet.  My local provider, BendBroadband, offers us 60 Mb/s download.  Let’s compare that to what most people can get now.  DSL offers 1 to 6 Mb/s. (Megabits per second) The speed …

CES-Consumer Electronics Show- Gadget & Tech News Made Simple
January 6, 2010 – 7:23 pm | No Comment
CES-Consumer Electronics Show- Gadget & Tech News Made Simple

This afternoon the starting gun will go off and the next 5 days will be a barrage of new innovations, cool gadgets, and technologies that will be available to buy in 2010.  There will also …

New Ways to get Photos, Movies, and Music around your WHOLE HOME
January 5, 2010 – 4:42 pm | No Comment
New Ways to get Photos, Movies, and Music around  your WHOLE HOME

I’m using this New Year’s day as a starting point to talk about the future of your home entertainment…And about letting go of old views of how we  have watched and listened to our TV …

iTunes 9 How to set up Home Sharing
September 29, 2009 – 9:12 pm | 5 Comments
iTunes 9 How to set up Home Sharing

Finally, I can share my tunes and movies with my family and they can share their tunes with me. I mean I can actually take the movies and music that are on my family’s computers …

What you Must Know about Streaming Movies from Online-”Fair Use”
September 10, 2009 – 4:17 am | One Comment
What you Must Know about Streaming Movies from Online-”Fair Use”

I am the proud owner of a number of devices that allow me to stream the movies I want to watch anytime I want to watch them.  August is a month of reruns so movies …

Connected Home is Evolving- CONNECTIONS ‘09- DECE
June 5, 2009 – 4:29 pm | 2 Comments
Connected Home is Evolving- CONNECTIONS ‘09- DECE

The connected home seems like some future world but it’s here today. What is the “connected home?” It’s when you can watch TV programs, your own videos, online videos, share your photos and …

Cool Technology from CES 09 and Digital Tips
January 12, 2009 – 2:25 pm | No Comment

Just returned from CES 09. Rather than blogging to my blog here, I’ve been covering interesting tidbits for Home Theater Magazine online. To see my exciting home theater finds along with the finds …

Black and Blu–Black Friday is the time to Buy Blu-ray Disc players
November 27, 2008 – 2:43 pm | No Comment
Black and Blu–Black Friday is the time to Buy Blu-ray Disc players

How to choose a Blu-ray Disc player

The time has come for the rest of us to get Blu-ray Disc players. To see gorgeous movies on our HDTVs, to take advantage of all that high …