Tech Spinning

Ever wonder where the term QWERTY keyboard comes from? I was with a friend yesterday who noticed my new BlackBerry Pearl (more to come about the Pearl in an upcoming post) and commented that it had a nice qwerty keyboard. I pointed out the Pearl, 8100, model uses SureType technology and actually has 2 letters — read more

Rogers has dropped the price for the BlackBerry 8700r to $299.99, with a 3 year contract of course. This is a significant drop from the previous price of $499.99 with a similar term. Incidentally, this will also help to drop the after market price of the device on such venues as eBay and HowardForums. — read more

It’s very rare Apple has anything on sale, simply because people continue to purchase their products at regular prices. But, on the day known as Black Friday in the States, Apple will offer some incentives to shop, either online or at their retail locations. It’s interesting to note Apple will actually price match, as noted — read more

I have just installed SiteAdvisor by McAfee and am finding it useful, thus far. It provides ratings for websites which are safe and unsafe. By unsafe, this can mean a variety of things from spyware, pop-up ads, and online scams. I was afraid it would slow down my web surfing experience, but this has not — read more

For anyone with a wireless router, I would recommend disabling your SSID, as a security measure. SSID broadcasts your network's name to anyone within 150 to 250 feet. This means that someone now knows you have a wireless network, and can perhaps try to hack it, meaning gain unauthorized access. By disabling the SSID, information — read more

For those out there with a Blogger account, there is an option to blog via email, or even wireless email such as a BlackBerry, by following these steps: – sign in to your Blogger account– click Settings– click Email tab – enter a word in the Mail-to-Blogger Address field– check the Publish option– click Save — read more

Internet Explorer 7 was released this week, but has had some problems already. I know, surprising since Microsoft always releases such great products that only need security updates once a day. Needless to say, I installed IE7 but found one major problem for myself, FTP access to a website would not work. For those wondering, — read more