Welcome to Mobile Monday’s here at Tech-Weekly. As more and more folks are starting to do the bulk of there computing either via laptop, handheld or by taking what they need with them loaded on their thumb drives. You are see less and less set one computer to a person. The application that I am going to talk about today is Foldershare. Up until last week I had not ever heard of this application. Nor did I know that this was something that is owned by Microsoft. Even though when you go to their webpage it says that this is  [ Read More ]

Desert PC This is Part 2 of my mini-blog series Third World Pc’s. In Part 1 I talked a little bit about the recent mass market release of both the Asus Eee Pc and the One Laptop Per Child organization’s the XO-1. And before I continue on with that I thought I would look and see are these the only computers in the works for developing third world countries out there that having an impact? What I found right away was an organization called Geekcorp’s. Last year they worked on a project computer called the Desert PC. Now while this  [ Read More ]

Have you seen the latest in affordable computing? Currently there are two flavors of affordable ultra-portable laptops. One is the Asus Eee Pc and the other is the result of the One Laptop Per Child organization the XO-1. I had started to blog something about this earlier this summer prior to the open market release of both of these machines but have only now had a chance to do so. I am really intrigued by not just the thought of being able to finally offer an affordable laptop for children or adults in developing countries, but also the impact they  [ Read More ]

I second Aaron Tiensivu’s thoughts HERE. He suggests that you get your @live.com email address while they last. As MS puts it this can be your chance to start fresh with a good email address that does not look like this: techweekly1234@live.com I recently went out and got not only a email address for this website in case I ever get tired of my Gmail account or if the Live.com service ever surpasses it I will be ready. You can get yours HERE. Of course they want you to download their Live software but if you notice the highlighted portion  [ Read More ]

I recently read a press release at Media-Screen that intrigued me. Now mind you this was just a press release and it was a little thin on backup data. Or at least I could not find any linked or attached to the release. The gist of the release is that Broadband users in America are spending 48% of their time online. And the bulk of their time is being spent accessing sites related to entertainment and communication. Probably no surprise to those of you reading this article. It has been the opinion most recently that most folks get their news  [ Read More ]

This may have been a part of Blogger for awhile but I just noticed it today for the first time. It is a handy little way to promote your blog after you load it.