For a long time I had resisted converting my DVD and Blu-Ray disks into any other format because I didn’t want to lose any quality. I had lived by this rule for a long time, and thankfully companies like QNAP and Thecus came to my storage rescue. However, the day has come where the cost of storing all the extra garbage that comes along with these movies has opened my eyes to benefits conversions. With that, I have began converting my movie collection to a format that allows me to lose all the excess fat, but keep my movie loss-less. Read More…
Recently, Google introduced their own DNS service for internet customers. With the latest iteration of their service, along with OpenDNS and a few other DNS Service providers, they have started to use CDN's (Content Delivery Network) to increase performance. This helps latency issues that your ISP is typically unable to address by gathering and using data stored on DNS servers based on the requestor's location.
If some of you are new to the website thing; you have a lot to learn, but don't be overwhelmed by it all. One of the applications that is going to be a help for you to understand where some of of your traffic is coming from or doing on your site is Google Analytics. If you are new to analytics, there will be some confusion as to what is what. We will try to demystify some of the confusion new users have with the application.
After switching from iOS to Android and being entrenched in the Google experience, my curiosity leads me in the direction of trying all kinds of new things. After my initial introduction to Google Voice, I was impressed with the service and with some of things that Google gives us for FREE so I was naturally curious about Google Latitude. Latitude is an experiment that allows you to see where your friends are right now, and vice verse using Google Maps. Read More...
Everyone is paying attention to the Android buzz, especially Apple and RIM. With the recent news about some of the offerings coming to the table featuring Google's Android OS how can anyone ignore it? Android's biggest and best feature is that it is open and free to run on various platforms, including various phone manufacturers, tablets, and more. Recently, a study has revealed that Android suffers from its own best feature. Read More...
If anyone knows me, they know I play with things for no reason, that is my nature. With that said, whenever I find something that I haven't used, haven't heard of, or could find any reason whatsoever to try, I will. That is the case with Google voice. Google voice is not new to many, but it is to me. This pseudo telephony service has been available to many people for some time... since they took over GrandCentral in 2007, but they announced the service will be available to EVERYONE for free not too long ago. Read More...



