Posts tagged as:

How to

Things to do with your new iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone

November 28, 2009
Thumbnail image for Things to do with your new iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone

Black Fri­day has come and gone, and you’ve likely got a new gad­get, gizmo or toy — I’m going to assume it’s an iPod Touch or iPhone — which is a per­fect oppor­tun­ity for me to dig into my archives and pull out a few posts that may help you and your new baby.

5 favour­ite iPhone […]

Tagged as: Apple, applications, apps, Entertainment, How to, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, software

Read the full article →

Portable computing with Portable Apps

November 10, 2009

Not every­one wants to lug a laptop around with them between classes or across town to a study ses­sion at the lib­rary. Or per­haps you’re mov­ing between a work com­puter, your home com­puter and a remote work­s­ite com­puter, yet want to make sure you’ve got your suite of regular-use tools at hand (’cause you certainly […]

Tagged as: hardware, How to, Lifestyle Technology, Portable Apps, Utilities

Read the full article →

A simple and easy way to back up your Google Docs

May 22, 2009

If you do a lot of your work on vari­ous com­puters in dif­fer­ent loc­a­tions (as I do), con­veni­ently access­ing your doc­u­ments is import­ant.
Though I carry a 2GB USB drive every­where, I actu­ally find it easier to use Google Docs and store my work ‘in the Cloud’, so to speak.
But, that amorph­ous blob of computing-storage could crash, […]

Tagged as: Backup, Cloud-computing, download, Firefox, Google, Google Docs, Greasemonkey, How to, paranoid

Read the full article →

A few Twitter tips for TV media

February 23, 2009

Recently I had the oppor­tun­ity to help intro­duce a local TV news anchor to the rather con­vo­luted world of Twit­ter, via Twit­ter.
That ses­sion gave me pause to think about what the TV news media really knows about this new media and its den­iz­ens.
So, to save repeat­ing myself, and per­haps help a few other TV types […]

Tagged as: broadcast, How to, Media, News, newsroom, Social Media, television, tv, Tweet, twitter

Read the full article →

Logitech G15 Keyboard upgrade (v1 — v2)

January 5, 2008

After a lengthy email exchange with Logit­ech cus­tomer sup­port (star­ted Octo­ber 22, 2007), I’ve just received my replace­ment Logit­ech G15 key­board (affil­i­ate link).
The key prob­lem (par­don the pun) was that the black paint on a few of the keys was wear­ing off, allow­ing the back­light­ing to shine through obscur­ing any key let­ter­ing. This key­board was […]

Tagged as: How to, Keyboard, Lifestyle Technology, Logitech

Read the full article →

Modding my Xbox…

March 23, 2006

[ This item ori­gin­ated at my pre­vi­ous (now defunct) blog bradblog.info — copy retrieved from the Inter­net Archive]
A while ago I man­aged to lay my hands on a refur­bished Xbox for a fairly reas­on­able price. Great, methinks. A game con­sole and a DVD player, all rolled into one. And hey, it’ll even play music from […]

Tagged as: Entertainment, How to, Lifestyle Technology, Media, media centre, Mod, XBMC, xbox

Read the full article →
Thesis Theme for WordPress: Options Galore and a Helpful Support Community
Creative Commons License
blog.bradgrier.com by Brad Grier is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.
Based on a work at blog.bradgrier.com.
Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes
ss_blog_claim=44aa26329ed37448560e7d4275ad1ef0