Posts under ‘Technology’

First the Holiday Spectacular Extravaganza in September, now its recent Wine, Dine & Demo, what a way for the leaders in today’s technology to show off their latest and greatest products and services! Thursday evening, November 16, 2011, found me at Pepcom’s SOLD OUT ultimate trade show for customer electronics and business solutions. My trip [...]

I’ve gone through a lot of cameras over the years from an early Kodak model with bellows to a Brownie Hawkeye to a Minolta SLR back to a Kodak digital, from rolls to cassettes to cartridges to discs to nothing but electronics. When Casio invited me in October, 2009, to review some of its ultra-compact [...]

BYO is what restaurants without liquor licenses often suggest. Perhaps airlines should consider it as well for earphones. On a recent trip south, I found Spirit no longer played movies or music. I was alone, without any light reading material, and thoroughly bored. I had brought my computer along and some DVD’s; however, I was [...]

What was the world like before laptops, the age before everyone had his or her own portable personal computer? Back in the 40′s, it was cards, board games, puzzles, reading, and radio (both comedy and drama). WWII ended. By the 50′s, movies were big, television was in, cars filled the roads, the sound was rock [...]

Did you ever think about air conditioners as being security risks? I hadn’t either until I was reading about explosion proof air conditioners. Back in the 70′s drilling for oil off shore in the Gulf was a big industry. Men signed contracts and spent long days and hours on rigs. Their galley was in a [...]

I anxiously awaited the delivery of the new Casio Exilim EX-S12 Digital Camera to my door. It was the must pack item for my recent trip to Orlando. I barely got a chance to charge its batteries when we were southbound. Already familiar with the EX-Z29 (see my August 3, 2009 review), I knew I [...]

GIFT IDEA – BENTO 3 SOFTWARE Bento 3 is a premiere personal database software application for Mac. My husband fell in love with Filemaker software years ago – this is that title all grown up and ready to work managing your personal information and files. It is a master at managing data and now can [...]