Computers and Technology

It is no secret that most of the help lines that you call for computer assistance originate from other lands. Most of the time that exotic far off place is the country of India. I bet you noticed the accent didnt' you? Why is that? You bet companies can save a fortune by hosting these call centers in emerging economies rather than paying a living wage to an American worker. What is the real story

The world is all a-TWITTER with the very first tweet from Pope Benedict XVI! The Pope has entered the social networking age with these words..."Praise be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings...Benedictus" So far he has 12,000 followers, but that is bound to change by the time you finish reading this...

My Dad always used to say " a lock will only keep an honest man out". I think that is true on the Internet too. Passwords are there only to slow down the bad guys. The trouble with passwords, most of us use the same one over and over again on multiple sites making it easy for hackers to gain access to all of our accounts.

In my line of work I have a great big mouthpiece and when we speak here at 97.3 The Dawg a lot of people can hear our opinions. I have to be careful how I use this forum. I say that because I don't want to be unfair to anyone, a listener, an advertiser or a company no matter how big it happens to be. The truth is a lot of us just aren't satisfied with our wireless phone service from AT&T. As y

Have you noticed how items that are supposed to make our lives easier almost always wind up being bad for us too? For example the microwave oven, it makes preparing food faster, but most of us it for making popcorn and junk food.

I am not much of a video game player. I enjoy a game of Wii Bowling every two or three months but for the most part I leave the games alone. Some people love their computer games, they spend hours and hours with games that take them away from their real lives. There in fact is the problem, real life including marriage is getting lost between reality and the fantasy of video games.

Wouldn't it be great if at a party or social gathering you could know the interest and personalities of those you are about to meet? Well technology to the rescue. A new application for your iPhone will let you sneak a peak into another person's social media profile. This gives you a heads up on who is going to be more to your liking and who you should avoid? What is the app you need to look for? 

Do you know what a "tech turd" is? Well I must admit, being a bit on the old school side of the fence I had horrible mental images of people ingesting smart phones and letting nature make the next call if you know what I mean. Technology is a double edge sword, remember when you used to have to answer the phone to find out who was calling? Or to get money from your bank you had to stand

Hot diggity dawg, the Commodore 64 is making a triumphant return! You know me and Bruce are always mocking our computers here at the station by calling them Commodore 64s. How dare we! We actually have fond memories of the best computer ever...

I guess it's official, there is no place on God's green Earth that you can get away from technology. It happened over the weekend, the first tweet from the top of Mount Everest. I think if I had just climbed the world's tallest mountain I would be doing other things than tweeting.

When it comes to technology I am more of a hammer kind of guy. That would be my tool of choice for the next time my phone quits working or my computer locks up. Obviously there are better ways to handle tough and not so tough tech issues, here are some easy fixes for charging phones, getting better wi fi coverage or finding photos you thought were deleted.

I like to play the "What If"..game. You know the game where you take regular circumstances and throw in a usually twisted variable. For example, " What if they ran NASCAR races through a mine field?" Okay, I would watch that, that is the game. We do that to pass the hours on long car trips, you know like the driving from the mall to downtown on Johnston at 5pm. Obviously we are

We're learning more and more about the latest smart phone from the Apple Corporation, it's the I-phone 5. So what are the big differences between the finally made affordable I-phone 3, the not quite affordable I-phone 4 and the new better start saving for it now I-phone 5...

When I was a kid it was impossible to get away with doing anything wrong or stupid, my Mom would always know exactly what happened before I even got home. Such were the ways of small town America, a network of neighbors and friends all making sure everybody behaved. This is not small town America and The Apple Computer people are not your mother. However if you have an I-phone then chances are the