A Connected Life

Things have changed since I first switched  to unlimited data, texting, and talking with no contract.  No-contract plan prices and the amoun...

I set out to save money on my monthly cell phone bill and I did just that.  Since I dumped my 2 year contract with Sprint, I have been switc...

Can you really have the latest and greatest smartphones and only pay $50 per month for unlimited data, texting, and talking and not hav...

I recently converted my crummy, old, detached garage into a man cave and found that my  Linksys 802.11N router in my house had a low signal...

I've decided that I'm bored with the dual-booting Windows 7 & Ubuntu 11.04 setup on my laptop.  I've wiped my laptop and ins...

For my Android phone, the default browser is the slowest of any of the browsers that I have used.  Maybe it's because I have an old Sams...

A few months ago, I replaced the 500 GB 5400 rpm drive on my laptop  with a 64 GB  Solid State Drive  . In order to make this hard drive ch...

When I was playing around in Chrome's settings one day, I noticed the Omnibox setting and was excited about it. Pages now load before I...

Research I needed a way to backup both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux computers.  After spending some time researching backup programs, I decid...

I use Audiogalaxy to stream my entire music collection.  It is fantastic and I love that I don't have to store my music on my laptop or...

Amahi Problems For some time now, I have been running an Amahi Home Server  on one of the desktops that I built. I was initially very excit...

My main disappointment with Ubuntu 11.04 has been resolved.  The latest round of updates has fixed the issues with my video card not being s...

I recently upgraded my primary laptop from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04 beta ( http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/beta ).  I love GNOME ( h...