Tech

It seems like everyone has at least one Gmail account now. Back when they were brand new, over eight years ago now, you couldn't simply walk in and make an account. Back then they were invite only. You had to know someone with invites to get in.

Now anyone, and even some pets, have Gmail accounts. And with Gmail offering more free space than most cloud-based storage services, why not? But what happens when you run out of space?

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If I was a smart man, and I emphasize the word "if," I would open a laptop repair center next to every major school in Idaho. Why? Because there's about to be a lot of broken laptops in Idaho's future.

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That audible gasp you just heard from the Internet? That was the reaction to Mark Zuckerburg's announcement that Facebook had purchased Instagram for $1 billion dollars.

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It started Saturday while cleaning out the shed: I found my two old Apple iBooks, dead, but still resting comfortably in their cases. My 12" iBook suffered a motherboard failure five years earlier, and the iBook G4 14" lost its mind when the hard drive crashed. At the time it was too expensive to get either repaired as both had gone out of warranty, so they were banished to the shed.

Then it hit me: why couldn't I use both iBooks to create one, working laptop?

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It's Easter! That means it's time for brightly colored Easter Eggs hid all over the house, which you may or may not ever find (until they start to smell). Instead of using real eggs this year, why not tech up your Easter a bit by creating your own LED Glowing Easter Eggs! The project is really simple, and once completed the glowing eggs look pretty decent. My son Jack, who is three, helped me build six of the little glowy eggs, and had a good time.

Here's the step by step tutorial to make your own LED Easter Eggs!

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Last week I took my son Jack to his cousin's birthday party. I was amazed to find a TV/VCR combo that was actually still in use there. I don't have anything against VHS personally, other than it's a horribly antiquated format, but it made me think.

At our house, we don't even have a DVD player, let alone a VCR. We have two digital streaming Roku using Netflix, Hulu, and a media server running Plex. Who needs DVDs anymore?

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Looking for some fun, adventure, and possibly battle an evil sorcerer this weekend? Experience Google Quest, the new 8-bit feature that will aid you in all of your quests.

For this adventure, you sure certainly see a villain or two, require your best steed, and perhaps load up on your detect magic and magic missile spells.

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I live for technology. No matter where I am or what I'm doing I always have my iPhone, a laptop, and an always-on internet connection. From the moment I wake up to the last minute before I go to sleep at night, I'm connected in some way to the internet.

I think, more often than not, you are too, and it's all starting to become too much.

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A few weeks ago I taught you how to stop worrying and cut the cable and only pay $7.99 a month for television. I found a way to make that even better. It's called Plex, and if you have a Roku (like I do) you'll love it.

Plex is basically a media server for all of your movies, music, television shows, and photos, but it does much, much, much more than that as well. And the best part? Plex is totally FREE.

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I love music. All kinds in fact. It was one of the main reasons I got into radio in the first place.

It was also radio that lead me to discover how much I enjoy listening to music through headphones. There's something about experiencing a song's full sonic palette mixed with the privacy headphones offer that can't be replaced. But listening through headphones creates its own problem. Namely, cutting the listener off from the rest of the world.

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Recent studies have shown that Facebook is responsible for lower grades in college, and now similar studies are showing that too much Facebook use is causing us to have lower marks in the workplace as well.

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Developer Rovio has spared no expense promoting the latest iteration of their billion dollar franchise since announcing Angry Birds Space last month. An aggressive marketing campaign, involving big names you don’t usually associate with video games (such as NASA and National Geographic), promises an epic new space adventure for the Birds to embark on. But, does it live up to the hype?

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