LOST COMPANY FOUND
Posted on August 8th, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
POWERLINE PLAYTIME
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Belkin has a new kit for using your home or business’ electrical wiring to view the Internet in any room. It’s called the “Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit” and it sells for $150 from Belkin.com.
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TWITTER-SQUATTING
Posted on December 21st, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Remember cyber-squatters? These were people who years ago registered domain names like CocaCola.com, or Sony.com, and sat on them, hoping that those companies would have to buy the names back from them.
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SOLAR NETWORKS
Posted on December 21st, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
These days it’s common to find restaurants, libraries and schools with wireless connections to the Internet. But if you want to cover a wide area, like a business district, park or resort, you need signal repeaters.
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ALL A-TWITTER
Posted on December 14th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
“Twitter” is a free program and service that lets you send updates to anyone and everyone about what you’re doing and what’s happening.
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HOLDING ONTO A GREAT IDEA
Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Inspiration is fleeting. Brahms once raced wildly across a field to get home and write the notes of a new theme before it fled his mind completely.
Should a similar problem arise for you, you can use your phone as a note-taking device by dialing phone numbers for either of two free services. Maybe hum a few bars. The two services, ReQall.com and Jott.com let your record your thoughts, even a simple to-do list, which can then be emailed, text messaged or read back when you call again.
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GOT THAT OLD MOLI WORKING
Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Moli.com is a free business networking site created by the founders of Etrade, the online discount stockbroker. It went live this past January and already has 237,000 members.
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INTERNUTS
Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Ideatango.com for inventors and MutualArt.com for art lovers.
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RIGHT FOR WRITERS
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Facebook.com started out as a kind of college yearbook on the Web but has gone way beyond that. It has morphed into a Web site with games, art, music and news.
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IS THIS FOR REAL?
Posted on February 9th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
A few days ago, one of our contacts at LinkedIn.com sent us an invitation to join NotchUp.com, a job hunt Web site where you get paid to go on interviews. Joy thinks it sounds good; Bob is a cynical reporter and remains skeptical.
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