Posts Tagged ‘wireless’

6 Essential Items to Get Any Device Connected to Your Home Network

Once upon a time, "getting connected" meant setting your computer desk up by a telephone port, whipping out a massive lugger of a dial-up modem and blocking your ears as the modem screeched and beeped its way towards connectivity. That cliched sound, still sometimes heard in commercials about the Internet that were evidently designed by someone who hasn't used it since 1995, was the bane of teenagers of the era… Continue reading

December 10 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: ethernet, home theater, network, networking, printer, wireless | 7 comments»

10 Great Free Apps for Blackberry

Blackberries may have been overshadowed lately by the success of the iPhone, but they still offer and incredibly powerful platform.Plus, since the Blackberry operating system is build on Java and has always been open, there are a slew of useful and mature applications, many of which are free. Since I’m a cheapskate when it comes to software, I’ve loaded up my Blackberry Curve with a boatload of free programs. Here… Continue reading

November 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: application, blackbery, mobile, software, wireless | 34 comments»

The Art of Finding Internet Access on the Road

As I write this post, my internet access is intermittent at best. The wireless router that I’m supposed to have access to seems to work in spurts, and not very big ones. And as someone who depends on the internet to do my work, this is not a good thing. And because I’m on the road, my internet options are a bit more limited than they would otherwise be… Continue reading

May 13 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: hotspot, internet, wireless | 8 comments»

Free Wireless Internet On Your Laptop – Through Your Cell Phone!

This is a neat little hack that I discovered last week when looking for a new cell phone plan. I had just gotten a BlackBerry Pearl, and the plan from T-Mobile came with unlimited data transfer for wireless internet on their EDGE network. (By the way this also works with other blackberry's on other networks, and possibly other smartphones.) I immediately installed mobile versions of GMail (never even… Continue reading

June 4 2007 | By Brian | Tagged: blackberry, internet, wireless | 53 comments»

Personal Reminder Hack

My friend, Adam Weiss from Boston Behind the Scenes, told me about a cool little hack he uses to leave himself reminders via his cell phone: For years, I've been using the voice recorder function of my cell phone to leave myself little notes. It's a great way to remind yourself of things when you don't have time to write a note -- that is, if you ever listen… Continue reading

July 25 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: memo, reminder, voicemail, wireless | 4 comments»