These days, with all the new gadgets coming out every 3 months, it's refreshing to see innovative ideas such as this one; no gadgets required. Previously, when you wanted to record a phone call, you'd need expensive hardware and special connection ...[Read: Recording A Phone Call]

Once in a while, I do fall off the Techno Geek wagon and talk about something else. Today is one of those days.   Since the cold weather has finally hit us in Toronto Canada, (minus 20 degrees Celsius), yes, I know prairie dwellers, that's like ...[Read: Protecting Your Doggie Pawz]

  By Martin Courcells I'm always attracted to simple applications. Much of the CD burning software out there is full of bells and whistles. Sometimes, I'd rather just have a straightforward, no nonsense application and have an easy way of simpl ...[Read: Burning CDs; The Simple Way]

  By Debbie Gillespie Now that the holiday season is upon us, you might be pondering about buying a gadget or to for someone you know who may be blind or have low vision.  Trouble is, you have no idea what's out there, or where to start looking ...[Read: Shopping for Accessible Gadgets]

By Martin Courcelles   Since I'm already in a holiday mood, I thought I'd lighten discussion here a bit and talk about creativity. Furthermore, I'd like to give a gift to all of my loyal readers.   A few years ago, I was in a production of C ...[Read: Some Creative Giving]

Being a nerd can be taxing, especially when it comes down to time-management. Back home, I have a plethora of various PCs, netbooks and notebooks. From time to time, I need to flex my software muscles and attempt a reinstall of the operating syste ...[Read: Configuring A New PC IS A Drag]

By Debbie Gillespie   Yes, I know I promised the next post would be on talking thermostats but the weather got warmer.  (At least temporarily.)   As there have been a flurry of elections recently with the municipal elections in Canada, and t ...[Read: Accessible Voting]

 Okay, I'm actually screwing up an adage. Well, 2 actually. It's necessity that's the mother of invention. And curiosity that kills the cat. Where was I going with that again? Oh yeah, so my main point is curiosity. Some would say that I a ...[Read: Curiosity Is The Mother Of Invention]

  With the craze of downloadable digital music, we all give our MP3 players a pretty good work out; not to mention our credit cards or PayPal accounts.  The one thing people tend to overlook when purchasing all of this music is the fact that ther ...[Read: Royalty Free Music]

Some of you may think I wrote all there was to say about online radio, but alas, you were wrong.  While catching up on a bunch of my utterly geeky newsletters this weekend, I happened upon a very snazzy and easy to use Online radio aggregator, ( ...[Read: Online Radio revisited:]