With rumors of Amazon’s tablet launch in September running amuck on the web, I figured I give my two cents on this supposed iPad competitor. We all know that Motorola has had a tough time selling Xooms, Samsung has had poor performance with the Tab and now HP decided to pull out of the tablet…Continue Reading
Whether you trust them or not, mobile payments are around the corner. The expected launch of Google Wallet and other competing services by Visa, American Express and others this year will bring mobile payments to NFC-enabled (Near Field Communications) phones. This means you can literally leave your wallet at home and only carry your ID, an…Continue Reading
What? You didn’t know that AT&T will begin throttling that precious unlimited data plan you were grandfathered into last year? Starting October 1, smartphone customers with unlimited data plans may experience reduced speeds once their usage in a billing cycle reaches the level that puts them among the top 5 percent of heaviest data users….Continue Reading
One of the great advantages of running a business online is the ability to work anywhere, so long as there is a Wi-Fi connection of course. And the most important thing while working away from home is having a gear bag with all the essentials. Because the last thing you want is not to have…Continue Reading
GilsMethod.com covers topics that range from Apple’s iPad to the latest version of Windows. Because of this we may write about a specific topic one week and then another topic on the following. This can be frustrating to readers who subscribe to our daily updates newsletter for a specific topic and receive daily updates for…Continue Reading
This is the question that I keep getting from friends and family that primarily use Macs and have heard about the upcoming upgrade to Lion. It is a great question whose answer depends entirely on your situation and your Mac’s specifications. Before you delve into reasons why you should upgrade or not you first need…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
