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How to keep your travel communications costs down, easily.

March 9, 2010

Whether you’re on vacation or travelling for work, telecommunications costs are a pain, and can really impact your the cost of your travel. Recently I’ve started using two tools that let me call home or the office, talk as long as I want, and not break the bank. …more

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Tagged as: Communications, free, phone, skype, telecommunications, Travel, voice chat

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Upgrading from Windows 7 RC to Retail — easily!

February 28, 2010

Well, being the cutting edge kinda guy that I am, I had the Windows 7 release candidate (RC) on my system from the first day it was released. Of course, that means that I was enjoying all the Windows 7 goodness on my system, with the knowledge that I’d eventually have to upgrade to the […]

Tagged as: 7100, Microsoft, RC, Retial, Upgrading, Win7, Windows, Windows 7

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How to easily edit home video with free software from Microsoft

February 26, 2010

Back in the day I used to be a news videotape editor. This was before cameras were digital — think back to the days of VCRs, Beta and VHS. Yep, that was the media of the day to record music and video. That was called Analog.
The reason I bring that up is because editing on […]

Tagged as: Dogs, Edit, Heloise, Lifestyle Technology, Microsoft, Movie Maker, Selena, software, YouTube

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How to find good music online with social media

January 20, 2010

In a recent post over at the Future Shop Techblog I started talking about various Internet Radio ‘stations’. Today I realized I didn’t talk about one of my ‘go-to’ online music sources blip.fm
It’s not your average music service.
Blip.fm is a hybrid social media site and music discovery service, focused around the concept of Blips. To […]

Tagged as: Blip.fm, Entertainment, MP3, Music, sharing, Social Media, Tweet, twitter

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How to easily convert almost any eBook to open ePub format

January 18, 2010

My iPod Touch is also my eBook reader. I use the Stanza app (recently upgraded), and the Stanza desktop application to get pdf and other formats into my iPod Touch. But Stanza can’t read all formats, and occasionally an imported file will not display correctly — the layout gets messed up.
This is where 2epub.com comes […]

Tagged as: application, ebook, ePub, eReader, online, Online Convereter, pdf, Reading

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How to view PDF files on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch with DropBox

January 17, 2010

Dropbox really is an amazing computing and file sharing application. I was initially introduced to it when I needed to easily share files with various computers across the internet — and email was not an option.
Recently my wife asked me for another solution to viewing PDF files on her iPod Touch. She’d been using this […]

Tagged as: app, Apple, applications, computer, copy, Dropbox, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, sync, update, utility