Earlier this week comScore, a data measuring and marketing company located in Reston, VA, released a report which further documents the continuing explosion of data access via mobile devices. From January 2008 – January 2009, mobile data usage more than [...]
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Tip for March 6, 2008: Foxmarks (soon to be Xmarks)!
Good Friday afternoon! In the Friday TechTip for January 16, 2009 we reviewed the benefits of Firefox and a few of the essential add-ons. One of my favorites which I automatically install on each computer I use is Foxmarks. Up [...]
Tip for Feb. 6, 2009: SimplifyMedia!
Today’s tip comes to you via special request. Are you drowning in a sea of MP3s? Do you have audio files scattered between computers, not knowing which has your stash of KC & The Sunshine Band and Donna Summer tracks? [...]
Friday TechTip for December 5, 2008: Microsoft SkyDrive, Part II
Good Friday Afternoon! Today’s tip is an update to the Friday, March 28, 2008 TechTip which focused on Microsoft’s Skydrive Service. In review, Skydrive offers you space “in the cloud” to upload and store/archive/share your electronic files. For instance, you [...]
Friday Techtip for November 21, 2008: PortableApps
Today’s tip will help you take advantage of the myriad USB flash (or thumb, or jump, or your term here) drives that seem to surround us. PortableApps (http://portableapps.com) provides a suite of applications which you download and install on your [...]
Friday TechTip for Nov. 14, 2008: PC Advisor
Today’s tip comes from Microsoft, the tech company we love to talk smack about! That said, Microsoft has released a number of new projects lately that I think show it’s on the right path. These include: Microsoft Mesh The Azure [...]
Friday TechTip for November 7, 2008: Evernote
Good Friday afternoon everyone! Today’s tip is Evernote from the fine team at http://evernote.com. Evernote is a VERY useful “web clipping” tool that is highly flexible and can be used in just about anyway you can creatively imagine. Using Evernote, [...]
Friday TechTip for September 26, 2008: Yammer
After a pause I again have a collection of tools and services to bring to you each Friday afternoon. Today we’re going to look at a new service which just so happened to win best new app at the TechCrunch [...]
Friday TechTip for July 18, 2008: Multi-IM Clients and Services
Hi all, happy Friday and 5 weeks before the start of the fall semester! Today’s tip is inspired by a question from by one of our colleagues. He was curious about which multi-service instant messaging clients are considered to be [...]
Friday TechTip for July 11, 2008: PocketMod
Happy Friday (and iPhone Day) everyone! Today’s tip is a digital/analog hybrid. Do you find yourself caught in the grey area of managing your calendar in Outlook, but prefer pen and paper for your to-do lists and notes? Do you [...]