Free Wi-Fi Access

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Here’s a free utility that you can use to detect all open (unencrypted) WiFi siganls. It’s called Easy WiFi Radar and is a small download from this site. Check out the video below, it gives a good demonstration of how it works. [tags]Easy WiFi Radar, free WiFi access[/tags]

Textexpander Email Tool

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Textexpander is a Mac application that speeds up your productivity and saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images. Get it here. Also, for Windows, check out Texter from Lifehacker. Its pretty similar. [tags]email productivity, Ryan Carson, textexpander, auto complete[/tags]

Cyberslacking: How to Beat the Company Firewall

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Update 03/08/2008 A colleague pushed me in the direction of Get My SIte, a service that runs on the Zelune engine. This web site is ultra fast and seems to be getting better results than all of the others tested. Original Post Have you ever fancied sending personal e-mails, updating social your networking page or [...]

Warning: Back-up Your Data Now or Pay Later

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What happens when your word processor freezes and you haven’t clicked the save button for a while? In many cases you lose some or all of what you were working on at the time. So what happens then when your hard drive crashes and you haven’t backed up for a while? Well for some, it [...]

Rise of the Metro Geek

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We all know about geeks. We have heard that there some handsome geeks. I have a new term: Metro Geek. The phrase itself is a Neologism, a Portmanteau and is partially Oxymoronic. The etymology and definition of the phrase are: [METRO (as in metropolitan) + GEEK (a computer expert or enthusiast)] . Source: dictionary.com Def: [...]