You may ask, “What is a drive caddy and why would you need it?” Good questions, which I asked for you so I could get this article started. A drive caddy definition can be found on wikipedia, but it is simply a way to “mount” an internal drive externally. Let me explain. If you have an internal hard drive (HDD or SSD) that is either suspect or needs to be mounted as if it was an external drive, I can put it in the external drive bay or caddy and mount it from there. The caddy can turn the drive […]
Webcams A while ago, the webcam I was able to find was this little USB webcam. This one was a cute little webcam, although the quality was not what we are used to today, it was excellent for the time. The First It has a built-in microphone as well. I did have to attach it, via a USB cable to my computer. Eventually, that computer became another computer and then a laptop and then another laptop and finally a QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. The NAS doesn’t like it plugged in, rather it looks for a WiFi enabled camera. […]
What I’m talking about, or for the uninitiated – Star Trek I “promised” in a previous post that I would eventually get to this. The actual concept of a communication device that would fit in the palm of your hand was seen in Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS). The series ran from 1966-1969. What took place in this series and the impact of it was well, monumental and has been the subject of many, many different scholarly and fan treatises. The object – an “Original” Communicator Why Many years ago, my wife and I purchased the thing that, at […]
Back then No I am not going to go all Star Wars in you, at least not now. It was a considerable time ago when I was still in college. I was at a rather small college in the middle of Boston, Massachusetts, called Northeastern University – Boston-Bouvé College. There, I was pursuing a BS in elementary education. There was one professor, who saw I had an aptitude for mathematics and liked things to be logical (he became my advisor). He encouraged me to take a minor in Computer Science. There was one difficulty, at the time there existed no […]
The Problem I ALWAYS try to get a phone which will have a long lasting battery. I am not always successful. This lack of success is for 2 main reasons. The first reason, and my biggest problem, is that I use my phone for virtually everything. Since my job is in the information technology field, there are all kinds of IT apps on my phone, including such obscure things like databases for computers and, since I work in a Cancer Center, of NCI designated cancer centers. There are more databases and there were nearly 1100 other apps until I paired […]
I started off with a simple desire, an easy way to answer my phone and getting one of the BlueTooth devices which I really liked. Just the idea of wireless communication between my device and anything else makes me think of Star Trek. I started out, because it really wasn’t “necessary,” finding a lost bluetooth earpiece on the street, This wasn’t the kind that went into your ear canal, but rather over one’s ear. None the less I got it home and cleaned it thoroughly. I had to buy a new behind the ear earpiece, because that was there, but […]
There are gadgets and then there are, what I consider really cool gadgets. This one falls into the latter category. I saw it on a deals site (I don’t even remember which one) and it met my primary requirement – it was inexpensive. But the lure didn’t stop there. Not only is it inexpensive, it works like it is supposed to, and is useful (especially when I am trying to fix a computer and I either can’t tell what is inside or I drop a screw, more on that in another blog on magnetic screwdrivers). So here I am with […]
I wrote an article a while back about why I carry two different devices, a personal Android phone and a business iPhone). This is how it evolved. I was presented with the opportunity to get a business phone, mainly because my institution had a policy against paying a portion of users’ personal cell phone bills. When this happened I had to make the choice between getting another android based phone or an iphone. Since I am in a job where I try my best to help others with their problems, and many of them have iOS devices, I decided to […]
So I left off last time discussing how I had gotten this wireless charging station and it basically stopped charging. This was not good. So I did what I invariable always do – I went on amazon and looked for something or someway to fix this. I couldn’t find a way to fix it. I ended up buying something, mostly because it was on sale, that would help. Another wireless charger that could sit in the current one’s stand. It looked like it could work! (I have the red one, BTW). So I put it on the previous wireless charging […]
I wanted to start with a fairly old, but kind of neat, item. I bought this some time ago (think several years) and at the time thought it was THE best. Not so much anymore, but I’ll get into that a little later in this article. What I wanted when I purchased it was rather simple. I wanted An easy way to charge my phone When it is charging I wanted to be able to see the phone I didn’t want it slipping I wanted to be able to charge it either in landscape or portrait mode I, as […]