Ok – you’re walking through Best Buy (minding your own business) when suddenly, something out of the corner of your eye catches your attention. You stop walking (directly in front of another person and cause them to have to stop and walk around as they glare at you), pick up the eye-catching device, and start reading the package. (For the purposes of this story – it’s a high speed wireless USB network adapter with Wi-Fi finder.)

All of a sudden, you’re thinking about all of the possibilities this adapter can provide for you. You’ll finally be able to use your wireless router on your ancient desktop computer! This is going to be $30.00 well spent! Read the rest of this entry »

We all have a technology toolkit—our “go-to” items, software, or websites that feed our inner geek. For those that don’t believe they have an inner geek: Do you find yourself feeling claustrophobic if you don’t check Twitter 5 times a day? Do you feel naked if you accidentally leave your mobile phone at home (and does it cause you to go back and get it)? These are things that you rely on every day, and yes they feed your inner geek. Here’s a little peak into my technology toolkit and what about the tools make them my “go-to” items. Read the rest of this entry »

More and more companies are building iPhone apps for their businesses to make themselves more marketable, competitive, and more accessible to their customers. Since iPhones are all the rage right now, it’s become quite the competition to create engaging apps that will spread like wildfire to iPhone users and (hopefully) create a following around that particular business, game, etc.

When I hear a particular company is developing an app, I’m interested to learn more. As an avid iPhone user, it’s feels like a Christmas present every time I download a new one. (Of course the “present” is even better when it’s an app that I like.) Today I learned about a company that is developing an “iPhone-esque” web application that will have the same look and feel of a native iPhone app, but will only be accessible via the phone’s browser. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I was eating lunch with a friend of mine and she was staring at a lady who was waiting for her food. The lady was sitting there texting on her phone while she waited. My friend looked at me and said, “I don’t understand how people are like that. I guess I’m just not that connected.” I laughed because it got me thinking—we’re all connected in some way, shape, or form.

Think about it for a minute. How many pieces of technology (no matter how archaic they may seem) do you use every single day? Just thinking about my day today I’ve used a hair dryer, drove my car, worked on my computer, checked emails, played with my iPhone, made updates to some websites, watched my favorite shows online, called my husband on the phone, surfed the internet, and the list goes on and on.

My friend may think she’s “not that connected” but I have news for her and everyone else—technology is here and we’re ALL connected.  We may all be at different levels, but we’re connected just the same.

I say we give in, embrace the new and exciting, and don’t look back! Jump on the technology bandwagon or you’re sure to be left behind.

If you have a Google Wave account (and you’re like me), you’re obsessed with the app. I’ve been looking for something that I can use to alert me when new waves come in, without having to be glued to the browser. Firefox has solved this issue for me.

They have a Google Wave Add-on that stores your account information and allows you to set how often you want Firefox to check your inbox. When you have a Firefox window open a little Wave icon will show up in the lower right corner of the screen. If a new wave arrives in your inbox, a number will show up next to the Wave icon indicating the number of new waves in your inbox. Genius! Now I don’t have to have Google Wave minimized all day while I’m working on other things.

I recommend downloading the add-on. You’ll be happy you did.

Tuesday morning Waveboard (a Google Wave client) became available for iPhone. Around mid-October the Waveboard crew announced they would be submitting an iPhone app to iTunes that would run Google Wave. Since then I’ve been tracking Waveboard’s movements, hoping the app would soon become available. Read the rest of this entry »