TSA encounters

Much like everyone else on the planet, I have been hearing a lot about people’s recent encounters with the new Transportation Security Association’s (TSA) protocols. With the holiday season among us and the threat of being faced with a similar situation, I thought it important to touch base on this topic. Some experts have chosen [...]

Of hitch-hikers, hacks and internet security?

I come from a “mixed” family. My mother prefers to err on the side of caution – “If you don’t know someone, you can’t trust them.” My father, on the other hand, was on the opposite side of the spectrum. I remember riding in the car with him as a teenager while he picked up [...]

Upgrading? Windows Family Pack on Amazon

In case you missed your chance to get your hands on the windows family pack that released last year, here’s a link to get your copy. The first time Microsoft ran this package it sold out in record time. In lieu of the one year anniversary of Windows 7, Microsoft is re-releasing this option which [...]

Social networking. A life-saver?

I always wondered where social networking would lead us. The first site I ever used for social media was MySpace, I thought it was fun to reconnect with friends I had during High School and actually reconnected with an old friend who is now my fiancée. Never in my mind would I have thought this [...]

Fun ways technology helps you stay active

I grew up on Nickelodeon watching shows like “Are you Afraid of the Dark?”, “What Would you do?”, and my absolute favorite “Double Dare.” After growing out of these shows, my sister and I decided it would be fun to have our own “physical challenges” just like on Double Dare, seen here. They were always [...]

"Jailbreaking" your iPhone now legal

The first iPhone4 jailbreak has been released. So what does “jailbreaking” mean? Simply put, after performing a jailbreak, you can download apps for your phone that aren’t approved for sale in Apple’s online app store. “That doesn’t sound legal,” you might say. Well, The Library of Congress added the following passage to the DMCA (Digital [...]

Advertising tactics now taking cues from futuristic film Minority Report

Apparently I wasn’t the only person to be intrigued by the futuristic toys presented in the 2002 movie Minority Report, featuring Tom Cruise as John Anderton, the future-seeing special unit officer. Check out this clip from CNN that shows a new invention that will use facial recognition software to determine gender and age group in [...]