Category Archive: Technology

Jan
06

Blu-Ray Wins, HD-DVD will concede in 2009

Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD

For the last two years, I have been looking for signs on what would be the technological successor to the standard DVD. I love buying and owning movies on DVD. I am also a power user on the personal computing side. And so, I have a vested interest in knowing what direction the high definition …

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Dec
14

ScanCafe: A Photo Collector’s Best Friend

Matthew Chan - 25 yrs old

In the entire history of this blog, I do not think I have been moved to make a stellar recommendation about any vendor I have no personal relationship with. Today, I will be doing exactly that. For years, I have had stacks of 35mm negatives sitting in various envelopes stored in a box in my …

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Dec
11

Those Charming Mac vs. PC Commercials

Mac vs. PC

I am not sure when the commercials took hold in my brain but after nearly 2 years of seeing Apple put on different “Mac vs. PC” commercials, I decided to go to YouTube.com to find more of those “Mac vs. PC” commercials to view. Can you imagine that? I actually went out of my way …

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May
16

Review of “PropertyBoss 2006″ Property Management Software

I recently wrote a user review of PropertyBoss 2006, a property managment software, and submitted it to the good folks at PropertyBoss Solutions.  I like their product so much, I am posting a copy of my review here. I will soon be upgrading our office to PropertyBoss 2007.  ===================== PropertyBoss is a property management software …

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Apr
26

New Technology Recommendations Manual Being Written

Although I left the I.T. business over 7 years ago, one of the skills that have served me well is selectively picking and implementing technology that has helped all aspects of my business life. It has helped me meet new people, establish valuable contacts, expanded my credibility, extended my reach to the world audience, buy …

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Feb
27

Hard lessons with Microsoft Windows Vista

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Another reason I have not posted in a month is that I lost a couple of weekends jumping through technical hurdles trying to accommodate Windows Vista. It turns out that my PC notebook (even with upgraded memory) was just too slow to run Windows Vista.  It was simply a dog.  It made me appreciate Windows …

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Jan
26

Countdown to Microsoft Windows Vista

First off, a disclaimer.  I have no financial incentive whatsoever in making the following statements.  I have no Microsoft stock and I am no longer involved with them in any way except for being a customer. Having said that, I am excited about the upcoming release of Microsoft Windows Vista.  Although, I don’t have a …

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Dec
01

My Thoughts on the Microsoft Windows Vista release

The brand-new operating system, Windows Vista, by Microsoft has been released to bulk business customers.  ON January 30, 2007, the rest of us regular consumers will be able to buy and install it. I have to admit, I love new toys.  In this case, new software.  I know the naysayers will say it isn’t that significant …

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