We often need more USB ports, especially for laptops. There are plenty of small hubs that add more ports. They’re cheap enough and we have a couple.
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Amazon.com now has 125,000 book titles available for wireless download to its popular Kindle e-book reader. This is up from 90,000 titles just a few months ago.
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Ehealth.com offers choices for small businesses to set up employee health plans.
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“Easy Computer Basics, Windows Vista Edition,” by Michael Miller; $22 from informit.com/que.
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Joy has been trying out a number of set-top boxes that promise to bring the computer to your TV, and even bring TV to the TV.
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We got a waterproof phone from Casio. They call it “water resistant,” to stay on the safe side. But we tried it under water and it worked.
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According to a survey by the IGA-Nielsen rating service, 82 percent of consumers react positively to seeing ads in their video games.
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Riding the train recently we sat opposite a young woman who looked like she had just been released from a police holding cell after a particularly bad night, but then she pulled out her Blackberry and browsed the Web for a bit. She told us Ebates.com was a great place to get cash back on stuff you buy online.
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We started up a two terabyte external hard drive from Western Digital last week. Yes, we know that hard disk drives are going to become extinct and be replaced by flash memory chips, but until then – what a deal this is.
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It’s not the kind of raid where the police come in to break up some illegal activity. In computer use, it’s written in capital letters, and RAID refers to “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” (originally “Inexpensive Disks”). You see the acronym often in ads for new drives and computers. It’s a way of linking hard disk drives together that is important for businesses and anyone else concerned about saving their data.
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