Archive for November, 2009
11 Holiday Gift Ideas for the Tech Geek, From $3 to $400
With the holidays just around the corner, the time has come to start scrambling for gift ideas. If you have a tech geek on your shopping list, you actually have it easier than most shoppers, for there are many gifts out there that will make a tech geek’s eyes light up. To help you [...]
Google Chrome OS Preview on USB Flash Drive
As a not-so-closet techie (or tech-geek, if you will), I find myself instantly attracted to all things new and shiny — even when the polish is not altogether there yet. This is why, on this US Thanksgiving evening, I find myself writing a post about Google Chrome OS from within a recently released build [...]
40Tech: Steps & Missteps in Starting a Blog, Part I
As we approach the six month anniversary of 40Tech’s launch, we are taking a look behind the curtain here at the site. In this post and a future post, we will take a look at the basics of the site, the inspiration behind the site launch, and other questions that arise when starting a [...]
How to Use Twitter Lists
Bobby Travis also author’s the Bluetoque Marketing Tips blog. This post is a first in a Twitter Series cross-venture with 40Tech and is featured on both sites.
Earlier this month, Twitter finally launched Twitter Lists, a groups feature that helps you to easily organize and share the people you follow (or are just interested in), [...]
We’d Like Your Input on Ethics in Blogging
We’d like your input concerning credibility and integrity in product reviews that appear on blogs. Specifically, we’re interested in what factors you, our readers, think influence the credibility of a product review. Your input will factor into some decisions we make here at 40Tech.
By way of background, we’ve been contacted twice here at 40Tech [...]
How to Organize the Google Wave Sidebar With Tags
We’ve recently started using Google Wave here at 40Tech, and have found it be extremely useful, especially for site-related tasks. In fact, we wrote our first collaborative post using Wave recently. As useful as Wave can be, it can also be overwhelming. Once you’ve followed a few waves, your Inbox can be overflowing, making [...]
Dragon Age: First Impressions from a PC Gamer and a Console Gamer
Ten days ago, we previewed Dragon Age: Origins, BioWare’s latest RPG offering for the PC, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3. We’ve now had almost two weeks with the game (Evan on the PC, Bobby on the PS3), so we should have a full review for you soon, right? Well, one small problem. Dragon Age [...]
4 Handy Free Tools for the Video Editor
Years ago, video editing was restricted to those with high-end computers, and was a cumbersome, problem-riddled task, filled with dropped frames, out of sync audio, and other headaches. Some of us even attempted to edit video without a computer. I remember the days of trying to splice together a family video, using dubbed VCR’s. [...]
GTD Not Working for You? Try Action Method Online
Some of you may have already read our rather detailed how-to on Getting Things Done in Evernote with Only One Notebook — in fact, we are pleasantly surprised on a daily basis by how many people keep reading it… But what if you don’t use Evernote? *gasp* Or what if GTD just doesn’t quite [...]
Free, Non-Destructive Disk Partitioning on Any System
So you’ve installed Windows 7, and have decided you want to repartition your disks. You could use Windows 7’s built-in disk partitioning features, but what if that doesn’t work? That recently happened to me. Windows 7 refused to partition the disk, telling me ‘There is not enough free space on the disk to complete [...]
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