Innovation in the Hearing Aid Market
Innovation has leaped in hearing aids. FDA deregulation in 2022 could cause the largest market price cuts since airline deregulation in 1980. Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Tech reviews
Tickets Via Apple Wallet
I am a long-time season ticket holder for Stanford baseball. This year, for the first time, Stanford offered ticketing via Apple Wallet. As a long-time techno-geek I had to say Continue Reading →
Google Changes Ranking Algorithm, Now Includes Mobility
Yoast and BraveNewCode are two of the good companies in the Wordpress ecosystem. I can recommend both of them with no reservations at all. Continue Reading →
QNAP NAS Major Win
If you’re looking for NAS, I can give my unqualified endorsement to QNAP. Regular readers will understand how unusual this is. For newcomers, here’s the quick summary: NEVER. Continue Reading →
First Look at Excel for iPad
While a few features are lacking (turning on word wrap in a cell, for example) this is a fully functional version of the popular Microsoft spreadsheet. I’ve given an overview of payment options and Office 365 in a previous post. Here I’ll walk through creating a typical worksheet on the iPad. Continue Reading →
Microsoft Office for iPad Overview
not only is Office for the iPad fully functional (even in airplane mode), the subscription to Office 365 actually might be a pretty good deal, depending on your usage. An annual subscription to Office 365 for $100 entitles you to up to five downloads of Office for the Mac (2011) and Office for Windows (2013). These are fully functional and work in offline mode. You are also entitled to five installations of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPad. iPhone, Android, and/or Windows Phone. Continue Reading →
I Was Wrong About Microsoft Office for iPad
I was wrong about Microsoft Office for iPad. Yesterday I posted a brief, critical review of Office for the iPad. This morning another reviewer pointed out that the subscription to Office Continue Reading →
Microsoft Office for iPad Fail
That’s right — these are the lightweight file viewers that have been available forever at Microsoft.com. To actually do any work, you’ll need to subscribe to Office 365. Now this is actually not a bad deal. For $100 a year you can use all of Office on up to five computers and five tablets. But, frankly, I’ve been using Documents to Go for years now and really like it. This app is from DataViz and is priced at about $20 for the version that lets you edit files. Continue Reading →
WPTouch Meets a Responsive Theme
Was this article useful? Contribute a few bucks → [simplepullquote]Warning: this article makes many references to a “responsive theme.” However, the only theme I tested was Echelon. Your responsive theme will Continue Reading →
Java 7 0-Day Vulnerability Was Blocked by SonicWALL
A few days ago a seemingly urgent report passed before me. According to these reports, there was an exploit that could be used with Java 7 to break into computer Continue Reading →