Recently I switched ISPs. Main reason is that the folks at CenturyLink refused to renew a super discount program that offered me more than 40 megabits downloads for less than $40 a month. So I’m paying a bit more for a somewhat higher level of speed from Cox Communications as part of yet another super […]

Last week, our broadband provider sent someone over to adjust our service. He arrived, saw my Macs, and proudly displayed his new iPhone 6 Plus. Now I had played with one for a while before to get a sense of it,  and felt it was just too big for my needs. You see, I carry around […]

The original concept of the Internet was to be free and open. Well, not in the sense of charging you for the service, but letting you access the content you want without a gatekeeper. Sure there are sites that require usernames and passwords, and cater strictly to people who are customers who sometimes pay for access, […]

If you wanted to download iOS 8 for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, Wednesday was messy. Real messy. Some of you may have waited hours to retrieve the 1.1GB file. In my case, on my first effort, for my iPhone 5s, it took several hours to grab that file on a 40 megabit broadband connection. The […]