Archive for the ‘Electronics’ Category

Switching to ooma

I been a Vonage customer for a long time. Just to give you an idea, when we first ordered it, someone from Qwest tried to call my wife to get us to use their long distance plan at 7 cents per minute. My wife told them we had had unlimited long distance to the US [...]

April 23, 2009   Posted in: Electronics, Products, Technology  19 Comments

Get Quickbooks Pro 2008 for $149.99

UPDATE: Since writing this post, Amazon has increased their price to $169.99, but the coupon below still works so you can get it shipped for $149.99.
So I have a small business. After meeting with my accountant last night I determined I really could make my life easier by using Quickbooks. I’ve tried the free version [...]

January 31, 2008   Posted in: Electronics, Finance, Products  2 Comments

How To Get a Free 1GB MicroSD Card

At Buy.com they are offering a Kingston 1GB microSD Secure Digital Card for only $10 and free shipping. That’s a sweet enough offer in and of itself, but there is a way to get it free.
If you have never bought anything from Buy.com using Google Checkout, they offer $10 your order for doing so. So [...]

December 7, 2007   Posted in: Electronics, Products  2 Comments

The Cost To Fix a Computer

I recently built my own computer and I know from experience it can be a pain in the butt finding and fixing issues. (In my case it was the bios not giving my RAM enough voltage.)
I am the family tech support guy. It makes sense that every family has one of these, otherwise, you may [...]

August 21, 2007   Posted in: Electronics  17 Comments

The Quest for My New PDA/Phone

Last week I woke up one morning to find my cell phone dead. It just wouldn’t turn on. I’ve tried not to rely on a cell phone most of my life, but this week, with all that I had going on, was a bad week not to have a cell phone!
But I’m a glass is [...]

June 14, 2007   Posted in: Electronics, Pocket PC, iPod  One Comment

Better Cell Phone Deals on the Internet

I have a friend/co-worker that uses his Palm OS fanatically. We’ve been PDA fans ever since we first met in college a number of years ago. Recently his Sony Clie started malfunctioning. It certainly had quite a long life.
He finally decided that since he needed a new PDA anyway, he would also get a cell [...]

April 3, 2007   Posted in: Electronics  5 Comments