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Bridge the gaps in Outlook

October 19, 2007 Posted by Tara in : New Products, Reviews , add a comment

Timebridge screen captureTimebridge has released a web-based, public scheduling manager into beta that may cut down on the amount of “back and forth” it takes to schedule a meeting through Outlook. If you have ever scheduled a meeting through Outlook, you know that it may take several emails and cancellations to get a time that works for all attending parties. With Timbridge, you are allowed to pick up to 5 possible meeting times that attendees can pick from. And you’re not restricted to Outlook, as Timebridge also interfaces with Google calendars. (more…)

Convert Those Old Cassette Tapes

August 1, 2007 Posted by Tara in : Reviews , 3 comments

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The BTO Plusdeck 2c is a nifty little invention that allows you to convert cassette tapes into CD’s.  Had I known that a technology like this was going to emerge, I might not have gotten rid of all of my tapes from the past. 

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See it all at once with the Pertelian X2040

July 23, 2007 Posted by Tara in : New Products , add a comment

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The Pertelian X2040 PC Assistant is a device that condenses the various tasks running on your computer and puts them into a central location right in front of your eyes.  The device itself is a small LED screen that connects to your PC via USB port.  The screen scrolls at a speed you choose, and updates the information that you program into it.

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I am a Pleo stalker

July 16, 2007 Posted by Tara in : New Products , add a comment

pleo.jpgIn talking with a friend of mine the other day I discovered a great toy that apparently has a growing sub- culture all its own.  In her own words she is “stalking the toy”, so I had to dive in and see what its all about.  The toy is called PLEO and it is “autonomous robotic life form” based on a one week old Camarasaurus dinosaur (a lizzard from the late Jurassic period) 

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Back up that hard drive, Part 1

June 21, 2007 Posted by Tara in : Tips , add a comment

I was sitting at my desk yesterday, typing away, when I heard a shriek from the cube next to me. My co-worker had been experiencing a problems with her computer all morning long; it was performing much slower than normal. She said she had thought about backing up her hard drive and then BAM! Her computer crashed and everything was lost. She said it was the closest she had come to crying at work, EVER, and I understand where she is coming from. Many of the resources that I use to do my job on a daily basis are on my hard drive. Templates, reports, important contact information (this is why I am a strong supporter of web-basted contact managers). (more…)

5 gifts for Dad under $60

June 13, 2007 Posted by Tara in : New Products, Other Stuff, Reviews, Tips , add a comment

With Father’s Day rapidly approaching, I decided to to put together a mini gift guide for those of us who want to show our appreciation for dad without breaking the bank. Each one of these gifts is under $60 and is user friendly, as we know sometimes parents just don’t understand. The first gift is one I know for sure my own dad would like:

fishfinder.jpg1. The Humminbird SmartCast RF30 Wireless Remote Fish Finder

Retails for $59.99, designed as a wrist mount, this little gadget has a 75-foot remote operating range and 100-foot depth capability. It has a 1.25-inch high-visibility display with 48 x 32 pixels of resolution. It is obviously waterproof and has one touch menu navigation for ease of use. (more…)

Why Pandora.com Sucks

June 8, 2007 Posted by Tara in : Reviews , 3 comments

For those of you who don’t know about Pandora, I am about to tell you what it is, and why it sucks. Pandora.com is a free internet radio service created by the Music Genome Project. The supposed draw of the service is that it customizes the music on a station that you create by choosing artists, songs and albums that you like. For example, if you enter Depeche Mode as an artist you like, Pandora will funnel songs and artists that are similar to Depeche Mode and their songs through the station. This sounds amazing, right? Well it’s not for several reasons:

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QuickSeek by Kensington, the User-Friendliest of All

May 31, 2007 Posted by Tara in : New Products, Reviews , 7 comments

Once in a while, a device comes along that is so amazing, I would feel criminally negligent not to write about it. The Kensington Quickseek FM Transmitter for your iPod is one such device. 

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Solar Charge That iPod!

May 22, 2007 Posted by Tara in : Reviews , 2 comments

I don’t even know why I own an iPod. Don’t get me wrong, I love it, but its spends way too much time in the bottom of my bag dead, lifeless, uncharged. I can only plug it in to the computer where all of my iTunes are stored; pluging it in to an alternate computer will erase all of my data. I need another option: enter the MySoldius universal solar charger.

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Microsoft Windows Automatic Updates Broke My Computer

May 16, 2007 Posted by Tara in : Microsoft, Tips , 4 comments

Windows Automatic Updates broke my computer.

Well, not really. What it did do was cause my machine to hang and prompt a system error that garbled all of the text on my screen. I called my friendly tech support team and they came to the rescue, but I decided to delve a bit deeper into the problem to see what others people’s experiences were.

It turns out that 5 other people at my company had that exact problem, and that was just at my company alone. Think of all of the hundreds of thousands of users out there having the exact same problem. If you are like me, when the Microsoft pop-up prompts me to “run automatic updates,” I just comply, fearing that if I don’t my computer will be vulnerable to all of the nastiness that can affect one’s machine. (more…)