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Information Overload – Trying to Reorganize A Workflow

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March 31, 2013
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In January of 2011, I wrote a story on the subject of Organizing Your Workflow with Instapaper and Pinboard. This was in response to the announcement of the impending closure of Xmarks(which later did not close), and the announcement that Delicious was shutting down. This had brought me to Pinboard. Pinboard is currently available...
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Running Personal Services on a Low End VPS

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March 28, 2013
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For those of us who like to tinker with client/server software for personal or household, there are many good options. You can use a Raspberry Pi as a server, for example. You can use an old computer. Both of these would have services running out of your home or business. But, as we are...
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Reader Refugees – The Death of Google Reader

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March 28, 2013
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It has been a long two weeks since Google announced the death of Google Reader. This left many people scrambling for new solutions as the clock countdowns to its shutdown on July 1st, 2013.   There are many alternatives out there of various types. Feedly, for example, has been working on a Reader alternative...
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Reflecting on Life with a Chromebook

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January 28, 2013
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A week ago, we announced a product review challenge. Spending time with a Chromebook to see if it could be our daily driver. Let’s review the conditions of our challenge. We’d use the device in lieu of our primary productivity machine. So, we’d still have our Android phone for what we used it for....
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Taking the Chromebook Challenge

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January 18, 2013
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The Gadget Wisdom labs has recently acquired an Acer C7 Chromebook for testing purposes. The C7 has a list price of $199 and offers an 11.6″ screen, a Celeron processor. The hard drive and memory are upgradeable. It’s competition in the Chromebook space is the $249 ARM-based Samsung Chromebook.  But, while the Samsung is...
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Back to Thinking About Podcasting Studios

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December 26, 2012
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Audio equipment has a special passion for us for some reason. None amongst our numbers are musicians per se, but the interest remains. As you may know, the Android Buffet podcast is also a project of the Weneca Media Group, the unofficial parent of Gadget Wisdom and a few other sites. Much of our...
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Equipping your UPS – Planning

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November 25, 2012
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Hot on the heels of discussing emergency power for mobile, it is time to discuss thoughts about Uninterruptable Power Supplies(UPS). These battery backup devices use heavy-duty batteries to power your electronics in the event of failure. When power is lost, it automatically powers using the batteries. The first rule of UPSes is to always get...
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Give the Gift of Emergency Power This Holiday Season

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November 23, 2012
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Last month, Hurricane Sandy hit hard in the New York area, in many places that hadn’t seen devastation of that level in half a century. Many people lost power and internet for days. Many people lost more than that…and our sympathies go out to them. But, while we fortunately came out of it without...
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Shrinking Your Electronics by Thinking Embedded Systems

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October 12, 2012
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Electronics are getting smaller.  People don’t have desktops in as large a number as they once did. Many have laptops, netbooks, tablets, etc. This is an area we’ve been thinking about a lot lately, mostly due to the flood of inexpensive systems on a board, led by the Raspberry Pi. The Pi is a...
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Feed Changes

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October 7, 2012
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To All RSS Subscribers: Due to the recent uncertainty regarding the future of Feedburner, we are removing all redirects to Feedburner. All links on the site will now use local feeds. If possible, please update your subscriptions. If not, the Feedburner feeds will continue to be maintained for as long as Google continues to...
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