When one considers all the technology that may come down the pipe, it is difficult to really imagine what our lives will be like in even 5 years. Suffice to say every advance in technology will reap an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome harvest. Look at how quickly our habits change. Next time you are standing in a Starbucks line-up notice how many people have their heads buried in some sort of mobile email device, most likely a BlackBerry. Access to email has become such a part of many people’s day to day lives that they are more addicted to their email than to the coffee they are lining up for! Just ask any one if they would rather go without their BlackBerry for a day or no coffee; no question, they will forgo the jolt of java in favour of being connected.

When is the best time to buy a new PC?  Should you wait until next month when the new processor speed or new graphics capabilities launches?  Of course you could play this waiting game forever and you’d never get a computer.  The only thing you should think about is what you want your computer to do for you and then get a computer that can do that.  To help clarify what this means, let’s take a look at some of the aspects of a computer you should be looking for:

There is a really compelling new direction our wireless world is taking. From a technology perspective it is compelling, that is, not necessarily from an ease of use perspective.

Many of our mobility devices are now designed for hybrid networking. These devices work on more than one network. For example I am testing out the Blackberry Bold, a new Blackberry that actually looks almost exactly like the older Blackberry. The difference is the Bold has WiFi built in. So you can log onto your home or office network and use the Wifi connection. 

So you want to buy an MP3 player?  Normally you’d have two questions ahead of you:

1. Do you want the Shuffle, Nano, Classic or Touch? and
2. What colour would you like?

Many people believe iPod and MP3 Player are synonymous, but there are many other MP3 manufacturers out there that have some interesting features that you should be aware of before picking up your next MP3 Player.   This is not to knock the market leader, the iPod, but let’s just keep all our options open.  Here are some cool new features in some MP3 players that are available today:

So you’re in the market for a digital camera and once you start to look at what’s available you realize that there are a lot of similar cameras out there. Which one should you get? Read on to learn about some key features you should look for.

We have all had the joy of opening a search engine such as Google, typing in a keyword or two and coming back with millions of results. It would take the square root of eternity to work through the results. There are easy ways to better refine the results you receive. For the purpose of this article I will use Google as the search engine but the rules apply to all of the various sites.