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

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 …

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DTV Transition

Coming June 12, 2009. What do you need to know? “How to” info that the techies haven’t told you.

Gadgets on the go

MP3s, iPods, iPhones, GPS, anything you want to take with you. What they are. What you want. How to use it.

Home Networks - TVs, Online, & Computers

View your photos or listen to your music from your computer to your TV and home theater. Watch online videos from HULU or YouTube, etc. The Digital Home. All explained with simple “how to” DIY

HomeTheater

From TVs to Audio to Blu-ray Disc Players to Networked TVs, to DVDs–”how to” DIY

Troubleshooting Technology

Tips on where to look first when your electronics aren’t working. Troubleshooting tips to try. Tips on “how to” approach solving your problem.

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Choosing Your Internet Speed– Google to Provide 1 Gb/s–what it means…
February 11, 2010 – 5:14 pm | No 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.  (Note: these are not scientific, they are based on my experience …

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 …

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 …

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 …