Do you have an office closet piled up with old systems, so dysfunctional even your local charity turns up its nose?

Contact the Bridgeport Area Youth Ministry. They’ll take the computers, refurbish and wipe the hard drives, then provide them to anyone looking for a low cost system - $88 and up. Local inner-city youth handle the upgrades, sales and service, developing valuable technical skills.

Visit their website at www.baym.org for more information.

Ever since the first Intel based Mac hit the streets, there’s been a race to boot Windows on it. You see, these new products from Apple shared most of the innards of a Windows based system. Its brain was no longer a PowerPC chip, but the latest Intel processor. (more…)

Want to augment your existing business lines with some low cost long distance? Your first instinct might be to use a service like Vonage or AT&T Callvantage, but these suffter from a rather large issue: the called party will see in their caller ID the number of your VoIP line, which doesn’t portray the most professional image.

Wouldn’t it be great for this line to show your primary number? (more…)

It’s the end of the quarter for Dell, which means it’s time for the deals. Witness:

• Dell Inspiron 630m laptop for $499.
• Dell 5150 desktop with 20″ LCD monitor for $599. (more…)

Have you ever noticed how fast a brand new computer is? It’s not because it has the fastest CPU or blazing hard drive; it’s because Windows XP has yet to be bogged down with dozens of useless applications, installed once and never used again.

This condition is so pervasive it even has a name: windows rot. And it’s the reason I reformat and reinstall software at least once a year. (more…)

Blackberries have long been a staple of executives, financial types and movie stars. But there’s a new sheriff in town.

Microsoft has been slowly developing a competing technology to Blackberry. While it has been able to sync with Microsoft Exchange mailboxes for some time, it always required the device to constantly check in with the server. (more…)