All | Technology for the Masses

Humor: What gender is a computer?

28 June 2010

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 [...]

The Best Streaming Radio via the Net

19 June 2010

1 Comment

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 [...]

Tip Time: Amazing Wallpapers!

10 June 2010

0 Comments

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 [...]

Fill out PDF forms for Free (without Adobe)

14 March 2010

1 Comment

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, [...]

Tethering: Use Your Cell Phone Internet for your Laptop

9 March 2010

4 Comments

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 [...]

Innovative Finance Series: Beat the credit card companies at their own game

4 March 2010

0 Comments

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 [...]

Pace University FIRST Robotics Tech Challenge

22 February 2010

0 Comments

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 [...]

How to detect rogue DHCP servers on your network

8 February 2010

0 Comments

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.

Diagnose PC Problems Remotely for your Friends

31 January 2010

0 Comments

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 [...]

Innovative Finance Series: Automate your Finances

30 January 2010

2 Comments

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 [...]