One of my geeky gifts this Christmas was this Monster iCarPlay Wireless FM Transmitter. With it, you can plug in your iPod in the car’s 12V outlet (cigarette lighter), and play songs through your radio using FM frequencies. It also charges your iPod while you’re using it. My opinion? I don’t know if I got a bad one, or if the product is just crap, but it stopped working after a day. I hooked it up Wednesday night and tested it out. There was some static coming through on the FM station, but it did work. I tried it again Thursday morning...

Part of my job description at work is to assist in software evaluations when we have a new vendor who wants to sell us something. It’s a neat thing to do, because I get a sneak peek in things we may buy and implement before everyone else does, as well as provide my feedback on the product. Last week I got to test a new system for our support requests that impressed me a lot, so I hope we get that software soon – it’s desperately needed. Something else I saw that intriqued me was this program for tracking

One of my gifts for Christmas was a new 30GB iPod. I immediately hooked it up to my laptop and started moving songs to it – over 1200 of them! And even after all of those files, I’ve barely scratched the surface on my iPod capacity. Now I’m looking for the easiest and cheapest way to add music to it. I thought I could pay for Napster and do it that way, but it’s not compatible with the iPod. Is there a similar service that I can use to pay by the month, instead of by the song to get tunes?

I was tagged for the 5 Things Meme for this blog recently…so I’m going to try to keep on topic and keep my 5 things tech related. (If you’re interested, you can read the personal list of 5 things I came up with on my other blog) 1. I started my first website in 1997, a mere 2 or 3 months after getting online. It was done entirely in front page and I paid $25 a month for hosting. Eeek! 2. One of the first websites I met people at was called MomsOnline.com – and although it’s no longer in business, I am still friends with...

Did Santa bring you some new geeky toys? I got a new iPod (30GB) and the thingamajig to play it in my car, as well as Grand Theft Auto (the trilogy set) for our new Playstation. If Santa brought you a toy to “go mobile”, like a Palm, PSP, or Blackberry, you’ll want to check out MobileSoftMarket for a huge selection of tools and toys. Perhaps a little Soduku to keep you entertained during your next board meeting? MobileSoftMarket also has desktop tools and EBooks. Everything is catagorized by platform, so it’s easy to find the...

To all of the geeks and geek wannabees out there, Happy Holidays from me to you! Love, Colleen

An important part of increasing traffic and your pagerank is building backlinks. Here are some easy tips on how to build back links. First, you need to understand the point of doing so – by increasing the number of links to your site, your search engine ranking will go up, which means that instead of appearing on the 10th page of search results in Google, you’ll be on page 1 or 2. How many people click through to see results on page 10? Not many, so by being on the first few pages of search results, your traffic will increase. Don’t...

Have you ever thought somone was lying to you, but you had no way to tell? Maybe you’ve got an employee at your workplace that’s constantly calling in with lame excuses about being sick or attending funerals. (Just how many grandma’s can that guy kill off, anyway?) Now with this portable lie detector, called the Di-Fib-ulator, you can instantly determine if someone is telling you the truth, or blowing sunshine up your skirt. The portable lie detector uses the same principles as the real thing by analyzing a voice to determine levels...

I just won $1000 from PayPerPost in their RockStartUp puzzle contest. This brings my grand total with PayPerPost to just under $5,000 since July. Is it any wonder why they’re my favorite paid blogging service? (You can get paid for blogging too – just click on the PayPerPost image in the sidebar and sign up today!) Technorati Tags: PayPerPost, RockStartup, paid blogging, blog jobs, make money online

Well, despite the page rank predictor promising me some changes, nothing happened with my blogs yesterday. I’m disappointed of course, but I’m still doing all the right things to grow my PR at my new blogs (link exchanges, upping traffic, etc), so it will happen. I just need to be patient. Did anyone see a PR increase recently?