by Scott | Apr 15, 2006 | General interest
While I wouldn’t exactly call it “high speed”, the Portland City Council and Mayor Tom Potter announced that they have chosen the company MetroFi to provide 1 meg wireless internet to Portland residents at no charge. That’s faster than many...
by Scott | Apr 9, 2006 | General interest
To: all phpBB Webmasters PDXTC always provides the latest installations for any open source software. However, upon your installation, we are no longer able to universally update your installation. This means that it is YOUR responsibility to keep it updated on a...
by Scott | Apr 1, 2006 | General interest
Google rolled out their latest money making plan today called Google Romance. Millions of single computer geeks around the world are hoping that this venture proves successful, especially one of my friends who tried to join. For those that didn’t know, on this...
by Scott | Apr 1, 2006 | General interest
Change the default mouse cursor on a computer to an hourglass, and chuckle silently watching your spouse or coworker reboot the computer over and over. Better yet, they may just stare at the screen continuing to “wait” which is what the hourglass in...
by Scott | Mar 30, 2006 | General interest, Local news
The former editor of the East County News (a newspaper in which I wrote computer articles from 1998 to 2001) has begun a local news blog, called EastPDXnews. The URL is http://www.eastpdxnews.com and if you’re looking for up to date news about issues concerning...
by Scott | Mar 21, 2006 | General interest
It still seems to be a relatively low percentage of businesses that are really maximizing the internet as an advertising medium. I think many businesses are losing sales every minute of every day. You’d be surprised how often the company with the largest ad in...