Monthly Archives: December 2009

What time is it

By Sherman | Published: December 22nd
If you’re like me you have friends and family all over the country.  I want to wish them a happy holiday on Friday morning but I don’t want to interrupt dinner (or wake them up too early). A quck check to WhatTimeisitThere.info is all I need – it tells me what time it is in New [...]
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Free WiFi for Travellers

By Sherman | Published: December 21st
If your Christmas plans include airplane travel you may be able to get some free internet to pass the time. Gizmodo.com is reporting that these codes should get you one free sign-in per email address • Delta: DELTATRYGOGO • AirTran: AIRTRANTRYGOGO • American Airlines: AATRYGOGO If you’re flying Virgin Airlines, Google is picking up the Wifi tab without needing a [...]
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It’s not too late

By Sherman | Published: December 20th
If you’re holiday week is filling up fast but you still need to get some shopping down, hope online… but hurry.
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Update your computer

By Sherman | Published: December 14th
I know a lot of people who use their computers all the time but don't know a lot about them. I assume that describes a lot of computer users out there, and it's O.K: Computer user doesn't (and shouldn't) mean computer knower-of-everything. That's why I'm here.
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Traffic Information

By Sherman | Published: December 14th
With the weather turning wintry commutes are going to be longer.  Get a little information before you head out by visiting Google Maps. They have traffic data available for most of the major cities in the US. Drive Safe!
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Get the information

By Sherman | Published: December 11th
If you need to information goog-411 should be your first call
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Growl

By Sherman | Published: December 10th
If you’re like me there are a lot of things happening on your computer that you may or may not want to know about… You get an email and just want to glance at the sender and subject. You started downloading something and want to know when it’s done. Your random song mix changed and you want to [...]
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You can do everything right

By Sherman | Published: December 1st
A colleague had his laptop stolen from work this weekend; he stepped away during an event and came back to find it missing. He had a backup drive so things should have been fine, but that got taken as well...
Posted in Daily, Hardware, Wednesday: Meltdown | Tagged | 1 Comment