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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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