technology

With GPS units being at all time lows as far as expense is concerned, many of us rely on the navigation aids to get us where we need to be. But what would you do if your GPS lead you wrong, very wrong?

Holidays aren't cheap. Especially with all the gadgets high up on wish lists these days. But what would you do if you got over $2000 worth of gadgets by accident, would you fess up?

You may have noticed over the last few days that people have been posting a "privacy notice" on their Facebook pages. Basically saying that whatever they post is not to be used by Facebook. There's only one problem - legally, it does nothing.

When I was first learning to write as a kid, classrooms all had two charts above the chalkboard - one of each capital and lowercase letter in the alphabet, and another of the same, but in cursive script. But now that laptops, smartphones, and tablets are nearly ubiquitous, cursive may be a thing of the past.

With all of the bad news we've had this past week and a half, how about some uplifting news?

We've been so inundated with news lately that it's gotta be tempting to just get on a plane, go somewhere warm and sunny, and just unplug from the world for a little while.

Over the last week, a lot of us have become experts at keeping ourselves entertained with no light, no TV, and no Internet. So how have you kept yourself busy?

We've all been annoyed by telemarketers before, in fact it's a topic that I've touched on right on these pages in the past. It's gotten so bad that the government is offering up $50,000 if someone can come up with a viable solution.

Remember the "old days" when cell phones made calls and that was about it? I remember being really excited when I could get a message with baseball scores once a day. But these days there are literally thousands of "Apps" that you can use to add functionality to your mobile device.

As cell phones get more advanced, they also get more delicate.