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Tethering: Use Your Cell Phone Internet for your Laptop

9 March 2010

Glad to have you back! Hope you enjoy the following article... 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 – [...]

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

4 March 2010

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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 [...]

Pace University FIRST Robotics Tech Challenge

22 February 2010

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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 [...]

How to detect rogue DHCP servers on your network

8 February 2010

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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

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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 across [...]

Innovative Finance Series: Automate your Finances

30 January 2010

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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 [...]

Search for Apartments Innovatively with Rent Jungle

27 January 2010

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There always comes a time when you’re ready to switch to “new digs” in a new area, neighborhood, or city. Personally, I find it as quite a task to go through a sea of rental websites then, another sea of neighborhood statistics sites as well. Recently, I’ve been recommended to check out Rent Jungle [...]

Open Pandora’s Box of Music

18 January 2010

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Say what? Pandoras Box? That’s right. While in Puerto Rico a friend of mine turned me onto this free Internet radio service called Pandora. Pandora Internet Radio isn’t like most online radio stations. It’s different in that you can customize the radio stations to your preference. Lets just call it Smart Radio – it [...]

Cloud Computing Nirvana

12 December 2009

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“What is cloud computing?” will most likely be your first question and a justifiable one. Cloud Computing refers to computing on the Web and not your PC. The Internet is also known as the Cloud to many IT Professionals. Still not clear? Thought so. See, most people use their computers resources/hardware to run things like [...]

How to Change Facebook Privacy Settings

10 December 2009

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If you’ve logged into Facebook recently you’ll see that they changed the Privacy settings – again. Obviously, this has caused a great deal of confusion and complaints from many Facebook users. It’s really Facebooks attempt to reconfigure your settings to be more optimal for their marketing needs. If you are like most people, you probably [...]