Some old tech that I wish would come back is people that actually know how to ask a question and then read the answer and act upon it correctly....

On a practical note, I have bought a couple of Denon 5-disc CD changers and these are great. They are also well made. And, given the price that Denon...

I prefer using vintage and antique sewing machines over modern ones. The youngest machine I have is from 2007 (Bernina 850 "sewing computer" as it's called in the manual),...

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"We still have mainframes and lots of older applications, but one piece of software I expected to see around was Lotus Notes. I know some people might still use it,...

This is so true.

How many of us look forward to finding a secondhand bookshop with old Kindle titles in it? With any luck, some brave person will have amassed...

Just a few days ago I was thinking about an old piece if 'hi-tech' that I had in high school days if I recall correctly.  I can't recall the brand,...

"fuel save pro   compatibility to ethernet in addition to Wi-Fi, and for that reason enable completely wireless operations and data ment. The consumer can switch the retrieved information by using...

Happy New Year to you, too, Grant.

I only ever made one New Year's resolution (many years ago), and that was not to make any New Year's resolutions in the...

Now for my annual exhortation to you all.  I'm sure you are tired of this...

Besides your career evaluation it is time for your after-career evaluation too.  Someday you won't have...

My year end evaluation:  "Wow, was I ever lucky!"  My IT career began in 1969 when my friend Robert Maple invited me to visit him at Bendix Corporation in South...

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Brian, I agree that for a vdj system you don't need a whole lot of power.  Mine runs on a little 11" Samsung netbook, but with a really good output...

As I have recommended before, again I really like and recommend the Asus ROG (Republic of Gamers) laptops.  I'm on my fourth one in the series, that I think is...

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Backing up your photos and personal documents to removable storage and then losing it is a nightmare scenario. For that reason, I think thumb drives and SD cards are...

Something else that amazes me... when I was 5 years old in Detroit (circa 1957), we had the latest and greatest dialess phone... where you needed an operator to...

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I use portable hard drives for my personal systems because the internet is not truly global and I go to many places where it is not possible to get...