This weekend I bought myself a new toy and boy do I love it.  This goes right along with things that I speak about all the time and that is the Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).  This new toy is a Grace wireless Internet Radio that uses wifi, 802.11 b, or g to connect [...]

Last week I purchased a new toy that I find very useful.  My cousin Larry, KD5MAF bought a MagicJack about a year ago and kept telling me about how useful it is and though I believed him I did not see the need for buying one myself.  That was before this weekend when I bought [...]

Wow! This weekend I was watching This Week in Tech (TWiT) online and they were talking about a communications program called ooVoo and I had never heard of it. As usual, I had to find out about this program. To be honest I was not expecting much as there are so many programs like this [...]

We arrived back home on Thursday evening from our short trip to San Antonio.  In the above photo you can see my wife and I in front of the Alamo. Between my son and I we took nearly 400 pictures.  Below is a picture of my son standing in front of the Hard Rock Cafe.  [...]

My friends and I have used Skype for a couple of years now but have had a hard time getting others to use it.  The problem is that people have so many instant messengers that no one thinks there is a need for another one.  These people use either MSN, AOL, or Yahoo, or ICQ [...]

Well I am off work today because my oldest son is having his wisdom teeth removed by surgery.  They are compacted and cannot be removed through traditional means.  I hope everything goes well for him.  We are letting him sleep in because he is not suppose to eat anything for eight hours before the surgery [...]

I know I have spoken of this before but I am just so impressed with Skype’s conferencing capabilities. It is such a cool program if you would like to talk one on one or as a group in complete privacy. A couple of nights ago there were a few amateur radio operators in our Del [...]