Flotsam & Jetsam

I’ve always been a big fan of early American Music – Blues, gospel, country, jazz & folk.  Oftentimes, finding recordings or collections of music other than stuff that’s already made it to the mainstream can be difficult.  Back in 2002 I came across an amazing collection called “Goodbye, Babylon” which was a collection of Gospel songs [...]

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Like a lot of connected tech people, I have multiple email accounts, multiple computers and multiple locations from which I connect to and read my email.  The problem is that there is no good way to keep all the activity you do on those various places synced up.  For instance, I read and delete a [...]

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Ah, Verizon.  The company we love to hate.  I’ve had Verizon DSL for near on 9 years now.  I got it when I lived in Morningside Heights and they first started offering it in NYC, then moved the service to Brooklyn when I graduated from school, then moved it to Astoria when I bought my [...]

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Now, I hate alarm clocks as much, if not more, than the next guy, but this one just might convince me to not throw it across the room.  http://www.mathlete.com/portfolio/wakeNbacon.php I think my biggest issue would be getting at the bacon before Feena and Mush did.  Evern try to wrest a piece of bacon from the [...]

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If you’ve ever posted to CraigsList, or responded to a post, you know that CL protects posters by assigning an anonymous email forwarding address to you which expires after X days.  Wouldn’t it be cool if you could have the same type of thing for your phone?  Well, the folks at http://www.numbr.com/ have done just that.  The [...]

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Ever need to make some quick edits to a photo, but don’t have easy access to photo software?  Check out http://www.picnik.com/  they have a free online photo editing system that works pretty well.  Granted, it’s not as fast, or powerful as some of the dedicated apps out there, but it does the quick and easy stuff [...]

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If you’ve ever tried to access a wi-fi hotspot using your laptop while traveling, and can never quite get a strong enough signal, check out this cool piece of kit: http://hfield.com/wifire.htm It’s a compact range-extending device that triples the range of your internal adaptor.  I’ve tried using a variety of antenna’s in the past, but [...]

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Lots of people use external USB drives for backup and extended storage rather than installing an additional drive in the machine.  It’s easier, faster and you can easily move the drive from machine to machine with few hassles.  The problem is that occasionally problems do occur and, unless you know how to fix them, you [...]

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