Technology for the Masses

Glad to have you back! Hope you enjoy the following article…   A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish,   unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.   ‘House’ for instance, is feminine: ‘la casa.’   ‘Pencil,’ however, is masculine: ‘el lapiz.’   A student asked, ‘What gender [...]

As you can see from the photo, I have a pretty pimped out system!  (Not Really)  But it definitely does just about everything I need when it comes to free streaming music and radio.  For those of you not on the streaming radio train, you need to hop on – cause it’s a whole lot [...]

Hey there TftM fans!  I know it’s been awhile but I thought I’d give you all a quick post here.  Have you ever tried looking online for desktop backgrounds only to get knee deep in advertisements?  Well, I have a tip here and it’s a nice one stop shop for you.     Surf on [...]

If you’ve read my previous article about PDF documents, you’d see they are a great format of file to work with.  They are small, compatible, secure, and just plain clean looking document files.  However… have you ever downloaded a PDF that is a form with editable fields?  If you have plain old Adobe Acrobat Reader, [...]

So you’re on the road and you do not have Mobile WIFI for your laptop – or you just straight-up want to get Internet off a device bigger than 3 inches!  I understand.  You’re already paying  your cell provider for Internet access – wouldn’t it be nice to use that internet on your laptop, to [...]

In this Innovative Finance Series article I’ll explain how to swim with the sharks and not get bitten (in your wallet) with the credit card companies.  I suggest hitting up my first article in this series called: Automate your Finances after you’re done reading this one because you’ll learn some key points to automated/hassle free [...]

This past weekend (February 21st, 2010) I had the opportunity as a Pace Alumni to check out the FIRST Robotics Challenge held on the Pleasantville campus.  Several high school teams from the North east competed in a “Hotshot” competition.  The Hotshot competition basically consisted robots designed to release balls, harvest them, then “shoot” them through [...]

DHCP – There can be only ONE!

Well not really, there can be others but that out of the “scope” of this article. Once in awhile a problem comes into the network, either through a hacker or uneducated user, that they add a device (router, personal server, Linksys wireless router, etc) to the network. What happens then is a conflict between your original DHCP server and the newly added device.

  Ever had someone call you and explain their computer problems or the series of events that led to some kind of error?  Of course if you’re in IT support most problems are explained like this: “Nothing is working!”.  Kind of broad.  It’s time to put on our thinking caps TftM fans!  I recently came [...]

Today on Tech for the Masses we start the “Innovative Finance Series”, and we’ll jump into how to automate your personal finances.  If you’re like most people you probably live paycheck to paycheck with little concern on where it all goes.  When the money is gone, you have to stay in.  Using this method means [...]