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Providing WiFi at Conferences and Large Events

WiFi is easy — as long as you have the wireless spectrum all to yourself. For most, people’s experience with WiFi is simply a matter of going to their local Best Buy, buying a consumer grade wireless router and plugging it in at home. If they live in a suburban area where the houses are

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Bing: The New King of Search

After reading about the search engine result doctoring that Google seems to be taking part in these days, I finally decided that after twelve years using Google search exclusively, it was time to try out a new search engine. Clearly, the next in line behind Google search in the United States would be Microsoft’s Bing.

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Should I buy the Nook Color or Nook Tablet?

 Someone asked me today: which one should i get, the Nook Color or the newer Nook Tablet? I had to scratch my head a bit because I didn’t realize that Barnes and Noble still even sold the Nook Color. But I checked, and sure enough, the Nook Color can still be bought for $199 while

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CyanogenMod 9 Making Progress on the Nook Color

The CyanogenMod team is at it again. This time, they’re taking on Androids’s recently released 4.0 software — otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich. The Ice Cream Sandwich version of CyanogenMod will be known as CyanogenMod 9 or simply CM9. But let’s not get too excited just yet as the CM team has stated:

My Nokia N9 Pr 1.1 Update Experience

I finally received the Nokia N9 upgrade notification on my phone on November 23rd while in Bangkok Thailand. I knew that I could have download the update onto my computer and performed a manual install off of the USB earlier but I wanted to see how the OTA upgrade worked. I was doing some traveling

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Nokia N9 ClearBlack Display produces Amazingly Bright Colors

When I first started using the Nokia N9, right away I knew there was something special about the display but I couldn’t put my finger on just exactly what it was. You see, when you use the N9, it’s almost as if the icons on the main screen float in mid-air. This is because the

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Nokia N9 Review: Own a Piece of Technology History

I finally put my money where my mouth was when I previously stated that the Nokia N9 was the most interesting smartphone of 2011. When Apple finally announced the iPhone 4S, I honestly was a little let down with their offering. After all, nobody I know was asking for a faster processor, marginally better camera

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Kindle Fire or Nook Color?

I realize I”m a little late to the party in talking about the Kindle Fire. But I thought I’d briefly add my two cents. On first glance of the new 7 inch color tablet from Amazon, I’d say it’s very much like the Nook Color…only crippled. Yes, clearly the Fire has a much more powerful

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Cisco Certified Technician (CCT): Cisco’s Newest Entry-Level Certification

Cisco just announced a new entry-level certification called the “Cisco Certified Technician” (CCT).  This certification sits along side the Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) level of certification.  According to Cisco, the CCT is for individuals that “have the skills to diagnose, restore, repair, and replace critical Cisco networking and system devices at customer sites.”  There

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How to Use Apple’s OS X Lion Wi-Fi Diagnostic Tool

Ever sicne Slashdot posted a story regarding the “hidden” Wi-Fi Diagnostic tools found in OS X Lion, I’m getting lots of questions on how to use it. First of all, the tools aren’t secret or hidden but simply not documented or highly advertised. In fact there’s lots of really interesting tools and utilities in OS

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Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Lenovo Looking to Be King of the 7 Inch Budget Tablet

Most of us have already heard about Amazon’s upcoming Android tablet…But did you know that Barnes and Noble is also rumored to release the Nook Color 2 in just a few weeks? Not only that, but I just read today that Lenovo is also expected to release a budget tablet very soon as well.

Apple iOS 5 (and hopefully the iPhone 5) are Coming Soon!

The big news today is that the new iOS 5 beta 5 has been released by Apple to developers. For those of you that don’t know, iOS 3 had a total of 5 betas and iOS 4 only had 4 betas before going Gold Master (GM) which means the software is ready for the real

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Apple’s Attempt to Dominate the Corporate Smartphone Market

It seems as if Apple feels now is the right time to attempt a knockout blow to faltering corporate smartphone champ, RIM and their Blackberry lineup. Recent developments regarding the handling of large scale distribution and the handling of privately created apps have recently emerged that specifically target the needs of large organizations that may

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Nokia N9: Most Interesting Phone of 2011

If I were able to try out any smartphone that has either just been released or will be released in the near future, I would have to go with the Nokia N9. Yes, I would even choose it over the iPhone 5 that may be released as early as this Fall. It’s not that I

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Hype HTML5 Software Review

I’ve written in the past about why it’s time to dump Flash content from your website. I’ve done this on my own sites and am not recommending Flash for any newly created websites that I manage for my customers. So does that mean that my websites have to be completely static in nature without any

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OtterBox Nook Color Commuter Series Case Review

OtterBox is by far my favorite smartphone case company. Their products are of high quality and are really designed with the user in mind. That’s why I had really high expectations when I finally got my hands on the OtterBox Commuter Series case for the Nook Color. Needless to say, my expectations were met after

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Using Google Correlate to Improve Website SEO

SEO is all about optimizing a website to achieve the top search results. To do this, not only do we have to understand how search engines operate from a technical level, but we also have to understand customers and how they may use different search phrases on a search engine. And just as major search

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Microsoft will Profit from Apple’s iCloud

Apple has made several major announcements this past week at their World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). Besides the big news of iOS 5 and OS X Lion, Apple presented iCloud, which is a cloud-based service that can be used to store music, photos, applications and just about any other data files imaginable. Since your data

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Perhaps it’s Time to Install Antivirus on Your Mac

I’ve never been a huge fan of antivirus software and that is one of the several reasons I use a Mac as my primary computer. I realize that simply owning a Mac doesn’t prevent me from all malware attacks, but it does reduce my chances. Additionally, since I consider myself to be more in-tune to

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Which Version of CM7 Should I Run on My Nook Color?

If you’re a CM7 Nook Color junkie like me than you probably wonder which of the many stable/nightly or modified versions of CyanogenMod 7 you should be running. We’ll, I’ve tried plenty of them and my favorite right now is called “Phiremod”. Phiremod is a modified version of the most stable CM7 7.0.3 OS. This

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