Articles
Home » Resources » Articles » Search Results
Archive for July, 2007
Putting the “N” Back in Network
Monday, July 23, 2007 / Networking / 0 Comments
The concept of a home network has grown substantially in the last five years. In its infancy, most home networking was just the use of a router to share a single broadband connection with multiple computers. Now users are sharing printers, networking attached storage (NAS), and streaming large media files through their homes. The services that many people expect from their home network would have challenged a top IT manager ten years back. Now all you have to do is open up one box… well, as long as the box has an apple on it.
Keep Your Eyes On Your Screen
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 / Software / 0 Comments
Sometime during the last decade, the era of traditional touch-typists began to wane. It’s ironic because more people interact with a keyboard now than in any other time in history. Perhaps it’s because some of our keyboards are not standard QWERTY keyboards. We use cell phones and smart phones that use thumb typing. Or we use a standard keyboard but with one hand resting on a mouse. Unlike the text-driven days, we click the mouse button almost as much as we click keys on the keyboard. Whatever the cause, we know the vast majority of us are not true touch-typists, and that means we are looking at the keys when we type. Why else would Apple make a laptop keyboard that lights up in the dark? In the interest of getting your eyes back to where they belong, I have two products the will keep your eyes on your screen and not on the keyboard.
