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A pen, you may say, is by default wireless. That’s why it’s called a pen and not a keyboard. But the Mobile Digital Scribe GPEN200N from Iogear looks like a pen but is effectively a portable computer. This device captures 50 pages of your handwriting or drawings – using normal ink – and it transfers […]

Here’s a trick we use when we have a collaborative online whiteboard project that we want to lose when we log out of our web meeting software. We simply print to PDF. This is handy too for documenting online receipts, itineraries and sending low-resource proposals and other documents that you don’t want in easily-editable Word

Most of my co-workers are a little freaked by the economy, but one of my nonprofit clients said something troubling to me the other day. He said many of his colleagues are reluctant to spend money on technology because they fear the recession. I don’t always believe you have to spend money to make money,

A podcast might be the perfect tool for broadcasting your sermon or special event, but while they’re fairly easy to put together, getting good quality sound takes some thought. The standard microphone that comes with most computers – or heaven forbid the built-in version in your laptop – creates a tinny far-away sound that instantly

Sending text-based e-mails is easy, but making them fancy with colors, background, tables or other HTML tricks is another story altogether. Not all e-mail programs will accept all HTML-generated messages. Some of our clients sidestep some requirements by subscribing to services that do this for them by providing templates. While some of these can help

[[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”708″,”attributes”:{“class”:”media-image”,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”style”:””,”width”:”333″,”height”:”500″,”alt”:”Karaoke”}}]] [Image: Flickr user gregoryperez] Here’s a gadget that anyone who works with the visually impaired will love: karaoke in Braille. It’s from a Japanese company called Nippon Telesoft, actually two companies that have teamed up to build the special machine. A PC plugged into the karaoke machine translates lyrics into Braille and sends them

We just hosted a webinar with some friends of ours at Dinkum Interactive about search engine optimization. It was great and we’ve received a lot of positive feedback so far. One of the biggest lessons we addressed during the presentation was the importance of looking beyond just the technology and just the marketing when it

Some scary news: US border control now has the authority to swipe your laptop, cell phone or other electronic device. Bad news no matter which way you look at it, but you could be utterly lost if you’re traveling and US agents decide to retain your laptop indefinitely. My best advice is to travel with

Skype is so easy to use and costs so little – it’s free, in fact – that I’m always amazed at how few of my clients and associates use it. With one free download, you can be making free calls over the Internet and be sending text chats with other people who also use Skype.

[[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”707″,”attributes”:{“class”:”media-image”,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”style”:””,”width”:”500″,”height”:”500″,”alt”:”Grand Street: Texting”}}]] [Image: Flickr user moriza] How do you reach your constituency when they’re teenagers, don’t use e-mail, aren’t on Facebook and the cost of texting is prohibitively expensive? It’s a good question that came in to me today. One option is to set up a Twitter account and start promoting it to your