Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Organize Your Gmail - A Quick Visual Tip

April 26th, 2009 by Brad Harbach   3 Comments »

Does your Gmail Inbox contain every one of the thousands of emails you have ever received?  Do you find that important emails that need action taken on them get lost between your normal email clutter?

Maintaining all of your old emails in the Gmail Inbox can be a mess.  In three short minutes I’ll show you a better way to organize your Gmail.

Any other Gmail tips are much welcomed in the comments.

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Protect Your Digital Life

April 8th, 2009 by Brad Harbach   2 Comments »

My oldest memories of using a computer date back over 15 years ago when I used to spend hours shooting bison, rabbits, and deer to help feed my family as we traversed along the Oregon Trail. Since then computers have become a part of my daily life and I have amassed quite a lot of information on my computer that I would be devastated if one day it was lost. Thousands of priceless pictures, every paper I’ve written in college, hundreds…

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What is Twitter?

April 2nd, 2009 by Brad Harbach   2 Comments »

I’ve been asked several times over the last month “What is Twitter?” Considering Twitter’s exponential growth over the last year (from 475,000 users to over 7,000,000), there’s no wonder people are curious. I’ll let Wikipedia explain…

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who…

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Compact Digital Camera Tips and Tricks - How to get more out of your Canon, Nikon, and Sony Point and Shoot Cameras

March 14th, 2009 by Brad Harbach   1 Comment »

The typical $200 camera gets lugged around from bar to bar snapping blurry shots of your intoxicated friends. What’s often times forgotten are the plethora of features that are packed into these relatively cheap pocket size cameras. Here are four features that I found deep in the menus on my Canon SD750 while traveling down under a few weeks back.

Photo Stitch
This feature allows you to take several photos of a wide panoramic view (for example Sydney Harbour) and then merge them…

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