You can get local and major network programming absolutely free. That’s right you don’t need cable or satellite! Just like in the old-days all you need is an antenna. You don’t necessarily need a special antenna. What you might already have may work as well as anything. If your already have the old rabbit-ears or even…
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Streaming Players
There are really only three kinds of streaming media players: Apple TV is a streaming play from Apple and works with your iTunes media. It supports the usual apps Netflix, Hulu and many others. No “Amazon Prive Video” and no “Google Play Video”. Roku has all of the apps with the one exception of iTunes….
Super Speed Up Your Computer With A SSD
Purchasing and installing a solid-state drive (SSD) to replace your hard-drive is the best way to boost you PCs performance. Seek speeds, access speeds and write speed can increase 4 to 10 times. Boot-up times 10 to 13 seconds on average. Applications open in a snap and saving project lightning fast. SSDs are still about…
Amazon Echo and Google Home Head to Head
The Amazon Echo is a smart speaker developed by Amazon.com. The device consists of a 9.25-inch (23.5 cm) tall cylinder speaker with a seven-piece microphone array. The device responds to the name “Alexa”. This “wake word” can be changed by the user to either “Amazon” or “Echo”. The Google Home is a smart speaker developed…
A great Chromebook from Acer
Everyone knows that I am a big Chromebook fan but my Chromebook but it’s several years old and it is getting a little long in the tooth. I also would like a little bigger display and a little more power. Until recently you had to buy a cheap Chromebook with a 11.6 inch display or buy a…
Smart Phones
Smart-phones are just small computers with telephone functionality built-in. Just like any computer they require software that makes the computer work called an operating system, examples: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Android & iOS The two main operating systems (OS for short) are Android and iOS on iPhones. Both of these very popular OSs are based on Unix…
Chromebook vs Cloudbook
We know a Chromebook is a computer running Chrome OS and its main function is accessing Internet based services. A Cloudbook is a Windows based computer that pretty much does the same thing but you can additionally run Windows applications on it. Let’s watch Father Robert and Brian of TWiT‘s “KnowHow” tell you the pros and cons…
More on Chrome OS Devices
Like we talked about last month Chrome OS is an operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed by Google to work with web applications and installed applications. Chrome OS is built upon the open source project called Chromium OS which, unlike Chrome OS, can be compiled from the downloaded source code. Chrome OS is…
Chromebox
A Chromebox is a personal computer running Google’s Chrome OS operating system. The device is a desktopvariant of the Chromebook laptop. Like its cousin the Chromebox only runs web applications and Chrome extended applications. Chromeboxs usually have faster processors more RAM more USB ports and ethernet in addition to WiFi. The Chromeboxs like Chromebooks are also manufactured by…
Chomebooks
A Chromebook is a laptop running Chrome OS as its operating system. The devices are designed to be used primarily while connected to the Internet, with most applications and data residing in “the cloud“. A Chromebook is an example of a thin client. Chromebook are manufactured by many companies including Samsung, Dell, HP and Acer.
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