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Lost Gadgets, Old Spice and A Blog

Posted on 02. Aug, 2010 by Squealing.Rat.

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Ever lost a gadget? Watched a brilliant commercial? Or thought about traveling the world? I love finding new websites, software and tricks to survive online, and offline. If you want to learn more tips, and applications you can use to make your life easier, read on.

Lost

Lost cell phones generally mean rebuilding your contacts, canceling your service and forking over the money for a new phone. Fortunately, MakeUseOf compiled a list of 5 tools you can use to locate a lost cell phone.

iPad 3G Connectivity

The Unofficial Apple Weblog came out with a solution for using your iPhone data plan on your iPad without paying extra. This is quite helpful for anyone who doesn’t want to spend a ton of money to get AT&T service.

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Some More Little Tricks That Help Me Get By

Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Squealing.Rat.

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Remember, a while back when I posted an article with some tricks I used often? Well, I realized I had a bunch more tips that might be of interest, so, with out further ado, some more little tricks that help me get by.

Go, GO, GGGGOOOOO!

Let’s say you are like me, and you collect ideas. You make a small document which you keep secured with ideas that will one day make you millions. That’s nice. Perhaps, one of those could make you millions. But, they aren’t. And they could. Don’t wait around coming up with excuses for why you can’t start that million dollar idea. Start it. Put out the bare bones and work on it. Learn to code, find a partner on the web, and put in the time. Don’t hesitate, just do it.

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How to Fix Newspapers, App Phones and More

Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by Squealing.Rat.

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My favorites this week include a fix for newspapers, an improved term for those special “app phones”, and the coming of a new, sweet gadget. All this, and a bit more in the following.

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Some Little Tricks I’ve Learned That Help Me Get By Online

Posted on 13. Jul, 2010 by Squealing.Rat.

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Most tech geeks accumulate a wide variety of tricks they use on their computer, just by going through the internet and watching others work. Most of us don’t realize how much, or how helpful the tips we know can be to others, so I though I would share with you some of the tricks I’ve learned in the years.

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Wiping Computers, Creating Documents and More

Posted on 28. Jun, 2010 by Squealing.Rat.

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Again, I thought that I would compose an article of my weekly favorites. This week includes an amazingly simple online document editor, a neat concept for Twitter and some of my favorite new applications.

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My Favorites This Week

Posted on 10. Jun, 2010 by Squealing.Rat.

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I thought I’d try something a wee bit different this week: a compilation post, a post that has no succinct subject or central tech product. Instead, I’ll talk about several things I’m excited about and am enjoying right now.

I’m Listening (Yes, that’s reference to Fraiser)

This week I subscribed to a new podcast. Tech News Today, hosted by Tom Merritt and part of the Twit.tv network, is a great show with a rundown of the day’s tech news. I’m also listening to The Moth, a podcast with stories told live without notes, The Pipeline, interviews with important tech people, several other Twit shows, The Dinner Party Download, and, infrequently, This Week in Startups, with an outstanding host, Jason Calacanis. (I am also listening to my own “podcast”, which posts old radio detective episodes as frequently as I require them.)

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How I Created My Latest Blog

Posted on 09. Jun, 2010 by Squealing.Rat.

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For my latest blog idea, inspired by a cool name, I decided to see what I could do with WordPress. In the past, I have complained how hard it is to get a customized look in WordPress, and my desire to mash up iWeb and WordPress. Fortunately for me, I remembered I had read an article detailing a solution. So I began.

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A Guide to the Internet For Your Business

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Squealing.Rat.

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Businesses around the world seem to know what the internet is. They seem to understand what they should be doing with it too. But they’re not doing all that they could to utilize the tools available. In this article, I hope to show you what your business can do to best utilize the vast internet.

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