Spring Cleaning: Computer monitors and keyboards

Spring is upon us and, if you’re like me, the bug to begin cleaning has you itching to rejuvenate your office. After cleaning off your desk, organizing files and general office pick up, you may be left with a dusty, smudged computer monitor and keyboard from the long winter months. It’s recommended that the average [...]

Can you hear me now?

Alcatel-Lucent has developed a new technology to hopefully get rid of those unsightly cell towers scattered across the country-side and in the middle of cities.  They’re using a technology which significantly reduces the size of current cell towers. They are set to introduce their “lightRadio cube” at the Mobile World Congress, which started Monday, February [...]

Personal Blocklist: the answer to your search engine filtering dreams.

Ever get tired of the same poor-quality sites coming up for your search engine queries? As effective as Google usually is, it hasn’t always been successful in stopping search spam from content farms. Enter the Personal Blocklist. This extension for Google Chrome allows you to block specific websites from displaying in search results. While you [...]

Would you survive a national internet outage?

When the Egyptian Government shut off the internet in an effort to prevent further protests, the US and the rest of the world took part in a unified thought – “What if our government shut down our internet?”  Some experts say that it’s not possible. Still others say that it could very easily happen in [...]

Well beyond the human eye.

While today’s blog article isn’t exactly tech-related, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share something mind-blowing that I read lately. A recent discovery by the famed Hubble Space Telescope has led researchers to believe that they have found the most distant gallery to date! How far you ask? Try somewhere in the neighborhood of [...]