Author Archive for Rod Cohen
A technology evangelist that enjoys simplistic time saving programs and technologies that make our lives easier. I work as a regional/technical trainer for a large company and live in San Jose, California with my wife, two children, and two dogs. I have been involved with technology for over 27 years.
Tripit.com helps travelers stay organized and informed
Tripit.com is more than just a travel website. The site is focused around organizing travel plans, providing information about destinations, and sharing information with other fellow travelers. Geared more toward the business traveler the site allows the user to forward travel itineraries that have been booked via corporate travel offices. The site is user friendly [...]
Flying lessons for the business traveler
In the May 2008 issue of Laptop magazine, Everett Potter points out an 11-point checklist to help take out the sting of flight delays, airport chaos, and long security lines. I decided to review these, select the best, and add a few comments and points from my experience as well as the shared experiences from [...]
Windows and Mac alarm clock programs
I recently purchased a Macbook Pro and have been happy ever since. I have found that most programs on the Mac are great tools, easy to use, and in most cases free. I did purchased for $12.95 a great program for the Mac titled, Awaken 4. The program integrates with iTunes to set [...]
Smart Date Logic in Microsoft Outlook
You’re sitting at your desk setting up an appointment in Outlook. You want to set up a meeting two weeks after Christmas to kick-off the new year right but you are not sure of the date. Well, Outlook can help you with that.
Microsoft Outlook has what is referred to as Smart Date Logic. [...]
Send SMS Messages to the top cellular providers
So your sitting at your desk and someone sends you an SMS message to your cell phone. If you are like me, you do not want to type a message back via the small cell phone keypad, not when you have a huge beautiful 101 qwerty style keyboard in front of you. Why oh why [...]
Google adds new Google calendar sync tool for Outlook users
Looking for a way to provide your friends and family the ability to view your company Outlook calendar? Would It would be nice to just share a calendar with the family so they know why you have not been home in two weeks or when you will be returning home?
If you are like most business users running [...]
Share calendars in Outlook 2003 using Microsoft Exchange
If your company uses Microsoft Exchange as their for corporate email, then you have the ability to share your calendar as well as view others calendars on the same network system. Users must “allow” or “set” permissions for calendars to be shared with specific indivuduals.
To share your calendar by setting proper permissions you must go to [...]
RSS Reader explained in plain English
So how do I explain something that is considered very techie and make it sound simple. I wanted to talk about RSS feeds and RSS readers. Well, I stumbled across a great website today and low and behold, it explains what both are and how to use them. The best part [...]
Best Buy & Circiut City (The City) OK with haggling
Is the art of haggling back again? Many retailers are trying to help address ease the economic concerns by unofficial allowing their sales personnel to allow haggling. The New York Times reported that many of the old used car tricks may work with these mega-stores in hopes of you trying to secure a better deal.
Using [...]
Latest Apple ads provide some interesting informative entertainment
For those of us who have enjoyed the Apple - PC commercials, well guess what? Another new Apple commercial is on the airwaves, or is that webwaves? Anyway, Apple just helps to promote more about Vista. OK, well it is not the best promotion for Microsoft, but they do enough of that themselves. After all they got [...]