Handy Clean-up Helper

I work on a Laptop with a 40 GB hard drive. It’s going on 3 years old now . . . and it’s getting pretty full. I used to go through my hard drive and search for the biggest files, then scan through them and delete as needed. Man, that took a while. Well, I found a [...]

Now that’s how to make a buck

I was feasting over some good ol’ turkey and dressing this past weekend with my brother-in-law. We were discussing the usual pre-Christmas stuff, mainly new gaming systems coming out this Christmas - Nintendo’s Wii was on the way, XBox 360 already had a year’s head start, and then we came to the giant, Sony Playstation. I had [...]

iPhone?

Just when I almost bought a new cell phone . . . I’ve been listening to a few podcasts today and it seems that Apple has (and this is just rumor at this point) put in a huge order for phones to a manufacturer in Asia. Now, Apple is usually late to the party for [...]

Movie Time

Hey, if you’re like me, you don’t have much time for movies. However, if you travel a good bit, there’s a site I absolutely love. It’s called movielink.com –

– and it allows you to download movies to your laptop. They usually have many new releases available, but I really like (and I’m showing how [...]

Urban Legends?

We’ve all received them . . . those emails that just seem a liiiiitle bit far fetched. Well, in case you didn’t know where to go to see what’s legit, head on over to www.snopes.com to do some digging. Always a fun way to stick it to your friends who know it “just has to [...]

Musician’s Friend

Hey, I just heard from Geek Brief that there’s a new LightSnake from Soundtech (www.soundtech.com). They had a great guitar input (quarter inch to USB) and now there’s an XLR version. All the processing is done in the cord itself! Too cool . . . I’m thinking of getting one for radio promos and such [...]

Audacity

In performing web design for clients who are music artists, I run into alot of audio file conversion and editing. Alot of people ask me what they can use for editing audio files. Most of the time, the word FREE comes up! Well, not to worry – I found a great program called Audacity. It’s [...]

Podcasts I Like

I realized that when I posted the Podcasts entry, I didn’t detail the shows I watch and listen to. Well, here they are:

Buzz Out Loud (CNET)
The Buzz Report (CNET)
MP3 Insider (CNET)
TWIT (This Week in Tech with Leo LaPorte)
The Official LOST Podcast (ABC)
Geek Brief TV (with Cali Lewis)

I realize 3 of those are CNET, but they [...]

Podcasts

I think I’ll jump right in with something that I’ve really gotten into in the past year. I finally bit the bullet and bought an Apple iPod last year. I’ll have to wait to tell you about it for another day, but let me just tell you that it’s totally revolutionized my music and news [...]

Great Backup Utility

Now that I’ve been working on a laptop for the last few years, I have all of my clients data in one place. While that’s nice to have and take along with me, it’s unnerving to think that if my laptop is stolen, dropped, or otherwise put out of commission, that’d be the end of [...]