MiFi – Internet hotspot in the car

It seems like much of the new technology I use these days it to make traveling better.  Verizon’s MiFi does that pretty well.
I was getting ready to head out with a car full on a two day drive to a Thanksgiving family reunion.  I though it would be nice to have Internet connectivity in the car.  One [...]

Problem: Track Travel Itinerary Solution: Tripit

I have started traveling a bit more, and keeping up with my itinerary information is always a problem.  I have the itinerary in an email on my laptop, but it is never very accessible when I am standing at the counter and they are asking for my confirmation number.  I also usually have the itinerary printed out in [...]

Cooliris – a cool online image viewer

Wow! You have to check out Cooliris. It is a cool way to look at a large number of pictures online.
I have over 2000 pictures on Flickr.  It is not that easy to browse through them all.  With Cooliris that problem is solved. It displays the pictures fast, makes it easy to scroll through them [...]

Problem: Lots of Pictures – Solution: Flickr

Digital photography is great.  It make it practical to take hundreds or thousands of pictures without the cost of developing and printing.  I have had the chance to travel quite a bit.  In the old days for a two or three week trip I would take about 30 roles of 36 exposure film, about 1000 [...]

Seven ways to keep up

I have been out of the country the past two weeks,  and it is amazing how much can happen in such a short time. So far I have found:

Apple announced new iPhones  and 3.0 (no I don’t have one yet, but I did upgrade to 3.0)
WordPress released version 2.8 (Yes, I have upgraded this site, [...]

Seven things the Internet has replaced

I spoke recently to a group where I tried to impress on them the importance and impact of the Internet. Among other things, I pointed out all the things in our lives that the Internet has replaced.  It made me realize  how I rely on the Internet daily.  Here are seven things that I use the [...]

Using Webinars to Communicate Value

Last week I did my first Webinar. It was fun and I think it went pretty well.  It was a great way to use technology to communicate valuable content to a targeted audience.
At MBO Partners, we are rolling out some changes to the on-line expense entry system that our Associates use. We wanted to present the system changes [...]

All the Good Technology is Free

Amazing how there is so much free technology today.  No wonder the economy is down, everyone is giving their products and services away for free. Well I guess that is not entirely true, but it is incredible what you can get for free (or almost free). I love it. Here is a list of free [...]

Problem: Keeping track of all this information Solution: Delicious

Now that I use Twitter daily, I get a ton of good information, like links to web pages that look like they would be good to read.  I also get emails with links to pages that others think I would like to see. The problem is what to do with all of them.  It feels like [...]

Problem: Need a place to host web sites Solution: BlueHost

When I started using WordPress, I needed a place to host the websites I was doing for myself, my friends, and some non-profits, but I didn’t know which hosting service to use. There were a lot of them.
Here are some things that I knew I wanted:

Host that was available (always up).
Host that had good performance (loaded [...]