Do You Use Free Programs and Services?

There have been several incidents in recent memory in which a service provider has stopped providing a free service or stopped providing service altogether. Most recently, the developers of TrueCrypt, a disk encryption product, announced that they were stopping all development and support of their product. They went so far as to alert users that the product should not be […]

Is Glass Your Next Big Thing?

The short answer is probably not yet. Glass is Google’s latest R&D effort. Okay, it’s a cool concept. Would I like to play with it? Yes, I probably would. Would I spend $1,500 to play with it? Nah. Absolutely not.  But let’s remember this: At $1,500, I’m not the target market for this product. Glass is still highly experimental. It’s […]

How to Save a Document to PDF

PDF, or Portable Document Format, is extremely popular, because if you save a document as a pdf, it can be read by any operating system. The most popular and well-known pdf reader is Adobe Reader, but there are others as well, and you can find them by searching on “pdf reader.” PDF documents are identified by this familiar icon. But […]

2013 Tech Quick Review

Since I got started on this site rather late in the year, I haven’t done any posts yet on hot tech news. So I’ll do a quick rundown on some of the coolest stuff to hit the interwebs this year. Google Glass–wearable internet. Looks like a pair of glasses without the lenses, but I see lenses are available. I’m cloudy […]