The Weekly Geek

Over the years Microsoft and others have offered cloud based services, software, data and security that is located on a server somewhere “out there”. In theory you don’t have to worry about updates, security patches and backing up. Such offers include Google Doc’s and Gmail as well as what we are going over here, Microsoft [...]

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I ran accross this today and just had to share it, a Star Trek Enterprise pizza cutter, great for the geek or kid who loves Sci-Fi. http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/kitchen/dea2/ Though it is not “cheap” it is officially licenses and comes in a neat box, and at $24.99 it is truely  not expensive. For the wine and beer [...]

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One of the more anticipated features of Windows 7 is the proclaimed “better” support for and implementation of 64 bit architecture. The 64 bit architecture consists of a 64 bit operating systems (most are 32 bit) and a 64 bit motherboard and of course a 64 bit processor. These systems will allow users to address [...]

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Never have I promoted Government “incentives”, after all we all know they are really tax dollars taken from Peter to “help” Paul. With that aside, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 dumps $787 BILLION to “lift” the economy via tax incentives and government spending. Part of the law give the Small Business Administration [...]

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I have been working on an article to “deal with” the whining of people about Vista. During that process I found various other writers who were in the same boat as I am. Yes, Vista is not perfect, yes Vista is stable, yes I use Vista. During my research I came across the PC Magazine [...]

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