In order for your Android phone to connect to wireless networks you will need to turn on the Wi-Fi radio and connect to the wireless network of your choice. Unless the wireless network is open, that is, it has no password. You will need to specify which wireless network to connect to and enter your…Continue Reading
When Google released Map Maker worldwide nearly a month ago they had a plan on what they wanted to do. Map Maker allows you to edit Google Maps around the world, whether it’s a new road or business or to move something to its correct location. One of Google’s major ideas about Map Maker was…Continue Reading
Whether you are selling it or giving it away, there may come a time when you will part with your Android powered phone. If and when this happens there are two things you need to make sure of. The first is that your data is backed up somewhere. The second and most important is that…Continue Reading
If you weren’t one of the nearly 1million people that attended or watched live online the Google I/O events, then you don’t have to worry. You can now watch both days’ Keynotes online on YouTube or read the blog post if you don’t have the 2+ hours to watch both Keynotes. Day 1 of the…Continue Reading
As more and more users move from older phones to Android-powered phones the need for a comprehensive list of must-have applications becomes more important. On this post we’ve compiled a list of some of the most useful Android apps from the Marketplace. We hope you find this list of Android essentials, as indispensible as the…Continue Reading
Graduating from college doesn’t mean that you have to graduate from Google Apps. If you’ve used Google Apps in college, I’m sure you know how beneficial it can be to get work done, but what happens when you get a new job that’s still using old, antiqued work methodologies? You Go Google! Google is giving…Continue Reading
In today’s society, everything is on the web, from word processors to photo albums. Google understands this and is looking into the future with a new type of notebook called the Chromebook. Chromebook doesn’t require an operating system, nor does it ever need manually updated. Chromebook is just a computer built for a browser. Chromebooks…Continue Reading
In the past few months we’ve seen a ton of cloud music services popup like Amazon Cloud Storage and AVG LiveKive, but now even Google is joining the competition. Google’s new music service, dubbed “Music Beta” is still obviously in beta, but is still a step above other services. Right now you have to request…Continue Reading
Today’s Google I/O keynote brought a few surprises along with a couple expected announcements. Here’s a summary of the announcements made in today’s keynote. Google Music Beta Rumors were correct. Google today announced the launch of their own cloud music service similar to Amazon’s launched a couple of weeks ago. The new service launches today…Continue Reading
Google Apps, now five years old and over 3 million customers strong, has been an affordable way for businesses to manage their day to day tools to help keep a business running. Google Apps for Business is now going to be more business friendly by offering a few new features. The first feature includes a…Continue Reading
When importing images to Picasa there are times that images from various events get grouped into the same folder. You can also run into this scenario if you have an ever growing list of images in the “To sort” folder. One of the simplest methods to remedy this and organize your photos effectively is to…Continue Reading
A few weeks ago, Google announced to Google Video users that they would no longer be hosting nor having playback for videos on their platform. Instead, they gave users the option to download their videos before they wouldn’t be accessible anymore. Many people were angry about this and voiced their concerns with Google. Google has…Continue Reading
URL shorteners have been making their expansion on the web over the past few years with the growing Facebook and Twitter communities, where you may want to share a link with friends and family. Shared links can be very long and take up a lot of text if you’re limited to only 140 characters, like…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
