Matt Hartley

So what do you think about the concept of purchasing Twitter followers? If you are like most people, you might find the idea to be a bit shady… and that is putting it mildly. Despite these feelings, it appears that services such as uSocial are popping up.
Apparently uSocial is a service that allows Twitter users [...]

You can love or hate Windows all day long — I don’t really care. But I will go on record as saying that its PR/marketing team for IE8 should be fired immediately.While some of its promotion has just been weak, confused and pointless, one of its videos is just gross.
The video below is not the [...]

It’s bound to happen at one point or another. Your installation of whatever Windows version you happen to use becomes unbootable. You’ve tried fixing the MBR, yet it seems that issues to be had might be malware related at some level.
Thankfully there are a number of freely available LiveCD solutions available that can help. In the [...]

I must have missed something along the line here. This press release talks about putting a satellite into space for the purpose of mobile phones and broadband coverage like this is a new concept? Last time I checked, satellite phones and satellite broadband were old news.
Upon reading into this further, it turns out it differs [...]

Just as I was finally able to stop having nightmares about becoming a slave in the future to my robotic overlords, I discover that Toyota is looking to give us mental control over robots.
Wow, really? Sure this sounds like a fantastic idea for having our automated friends doing household tasks and such. But what [...]

Most of us like to believe that we have a fairly strong handle on what we are doing when traveling with our mobile devices. Most notable among these devices are those using talk time or data usage over mobile phone networks. Unfortunately, the reality of the situation is that most of us have next to [...]

I am very much a child of the ’80s, with some memories of the late ’70s, even. I remember getting up to change the channel and adjusting the rabbit ears (this is what parents used to call remote control), to begging my mom for a full sized “boom box” so I could be cool like [...]

Today I saw something interesting happen. Community reps from two competing ISPs coming together in good humor. Really refreshing, actually. Hopefully more companies out there are able to do this. First, start off by reading this Twitter “tweet” from a Comcast social media rep. And I quote.
We changed the greeting on our phone system. [...]

I have been looking at VoiceField since the beginning of today, trying to get an idea of what it is all about. One article I found described it as a Twitter like thing, sort of. And on the surface, it is intriguing. Call a phone number and use it as your own personal soapbox from [...]

I will go on record once again in saying that for the most part, Windows 7 is vastly better than Vista. Performance is my main sticking point, as I not too long back reported one person that was able to get it running on as little as 128 MB of RAM with a PII processor. [...]

This latest post I did on why you need so much more than a mere A+ Cert really hit home for a lot of readers apparently. Seems like the email is still coming in strong. But one email I received that I thought was interesting was about someone who is about to go on an [...]

While I do not partake with Apple products (I prefer bananas), I do own an iPhone 3G and my wife leaves me with an extra user account on her own iMac. So should I wish to set up tethering for testing purposes, I’d say I am in pretty good shape to do so.
This tutorial here [...]

I was forwarded this email today in hopes that I might have some thoughts on the matter. It says:
I was just wondering how you get started in the IT field with just an A+ cert? The problem I am running into is I am trying to change careers and every employer requires at least one [...]

On so many levels, I think that Windows 7 is going to be a trip. From the OS being able to run on machines running as little as 96-128 MBs of RAM to trying to correct the dog performance I found happening with Vista on PCs right out of the store. In short, it’s likely [...]

I came across this today totally by accident. SunnyGram, not to be confused with HoneyGrams, is a way to make email more accessible for those who are just not technology people. Now for geeks like us, we might be inclined to think that everyone is able to step up and get into the daily routine [...]

Surely there is an easier way to do this?  I mean, I have been using SSH with X forwarding in Linux for what seems like years now and I just do not remember it being this difficult. Sure, to be fair this article is from, like, 2005. And last time I checked, no one is [...]

Most of us might think the idea of a self-charging cell phone sounds like something out of science fiction. Yet as you can see here, Nokia has found a way to overcome the problem of the dying cell phone and from the sounds of it, I think it might have a workable solution.
Imagine Nokia phone [...]

Never have I been so under-impressed by a single marketing idea. Opera, while a reasonably okay browser for what it is, does not strike me as making massive inroads in the already crowded browser world these days. And with Google Chrome and Safari on Windows, it has more competition than ever.
Enter Opera Unite, an idea [...]

It’s something that has been on my mind lately. Which is truly the best remote desktop software available for those not wanting to use Windows own remote desktop software? For some, the best choice might be something like GoToMyPC or LogMeIn. In other cases, RDP solutions are the best fit as they provide zero cost [...]

Today I had a conversation with a friend of the family. I discovered that their son, about 12, is growing up much faster than any of us realized. It seems that he has grown interested in adult content found on the Internet. And to make matters worse, all attempts at monitoring and blocking this have [...]