technology

What the heck is a Microsoft Tag-you might be asking yourself? Well it is something pretty new and innovative from Microsoft and it looks like this:

 

Now if you have the application for your cell phone (you can get it here for free) you can just aim your cell with the Tag application open at the image above and it will add the information to your telephone. Above is a real tag I made (making a tag is free too). And believe me-if I can do it anyone can.

Now I have your interest let’s do something fun. I want you to go to the

Connectzone was recently contacted by some students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. They were trying to acquire some waterproof connectors for the science competition they are involved in. Connectzone of course happy to help in research and good old fashion competition gave them discounted “student pricing” on LTW brand products. As follows is a newspaper write up on the competition they took first place in last year:

ERAU Underwater Robotics Team wins first competition

By Paula Rhoden The Daily Courier Thursday, June 12, 2008 PRESCOTT – The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Underwater Robotics Research Team has set the bar high. In its first competition, and first year of existence, the Flying Goldfish brought home the first-place

This is a really cool technology. I will link you here in case you don’t know about this: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html

You can go to street view and see a real picture of a neighborhood. Imagine how helpful this would be if for example you were moving from Alabama to Seattle and wanted to know what the neighborhood the real estate agent was recommending? Although it might a cramp in my personal business www.nwconcierge.com where I have done house scouting for clients.

But a warning to everyone in the blogosphere-be aware when the Google car comes by taking pictures. Be aware of what you are doing and wearing and if you look fat in those shorts. The Google car caught me at the worst possible moment. Story as follows.

Mr. Connectzone calls

Last summer a terrible thing happened at Connectzone.com. A truly vicious horrible thing happened. A catastrophic, mind bending, corporate wide devastating event. An employee opened an email. Opening an email shouldn’t be dangerous…..

It made sense-it was from UPS. We have daily pickup and delivery from UPS-they email us all the time so why not open it. Guess what? It wasn’t from UPS, that email came from the devil, not “a devil” but from “THE DEVIL”. Yes, it was from Lucifer also known as Satan, Angel of the bottomless pit, Antichrist and The Prince of Darkness. Here is what the attachment in that email really was: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp

Of course once you open the email you gasp and realize you just shot your computer in the head and are

Simple, everyone who wants improved transmission performance and extension of the available bandwidth. Cat 5E while much superior to Cat4 & Cat3, is old news. Cat 5E has inferior immunity from external noise. What that means to you is Cat 6 with have more robust reliability and SPEED. Of course that’s only important if you want to fly around the internet and run your internal network at lightning speed without losing data and having to re-transmit. (Insert visual of the Comcast turtle here) Cat 6 is used to carry Ethernet 10Base-T, 100Base-TX, and 1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet) connections. Cat 6 cable is backed with more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise than earlier cabling standards. Some Installers will tell you that Cat 6 is more difficult to install, which is probably true-but only by a little bit. That’s because the conductors are twisted more tightly which makes them more difficult to split apart. But a little prudence

So you may know that Google has a new product called Google Latitude. If you have a compatible cell phone you can install it and give your friends and family the ability to track you on their cell phones or a PC. You need to ask permission to track someone and they have to agree to be tracked. You can even get directions to where your friends are. Sounds kinda cool. I will even give you the link so you can check it out: http://www.google.com/mobile/default/latitude.html

The features include the ability to share your location and privacy settings you can enable and disable should you want to go missing in action for a time period.

I can see where this would be very useful. A real life example: while on vacation in California with friends, one of the friends took our jointly rented car for a day trip. The plan was my friend was going to go shopping