This category contains my opinions, reviews, and thoughts about anything technology related like computers, home theater, smartphones, etc.
Aaaah, the wonders of running a blog and being the sole IT person for it…sometimes things break. Apparently, the site indexes have been inoperable since some time in April, to which several of you attempted to notify me through the Contact Form….which was also broke. I have resolved both issues…
If you noticed the site not responding or appearing to be down today or last night, it’s because I’ve been migrating hosts. In January 2019, I switched to Bluehost which is one of the largest WordPress hosting sites out there, but lately, site performance has been miserable. After talking with…
Well that was fast! Not even 24 hours after I began, I have officially moved everything over to Bluehost, this site’s new home for at least the next 5 years. If you’re reading this post, then you’re already here and hopefully you have already noticed significant speed improvements on the…
After nearly 7 years running mikeeckman.com on a home built Windows 2008 server that sits in my basement (it was originally in a closet), the time has come to move to a new host. With the support of your kind donations and revenue generated through Google Adsense, the site has…
The Internet isn’t going away. Its probably going to be here for a while, most likely for the rest of humanity. The rate at which computers have interconnected us and affected our lives grows year after year. You can literally buy everything you need in your life online, from homes,…
I often get asked to help someone with a computer problem, or to clean up a computer that is not running properly. Sometimes it’s a virus, sometimes its spyware, sometimes it’s something wrong with the operating system. Most of the time, it’s all 3. Fixing computer problems is actually pretty…
Spring is here, and that means thunderstorms. Thunderstorms mean lightning, and lightning means power surges. Pretty much everyone I know, including my grandparents, have electronics worth protecting. Most everyone knows to plug their computer or their televisions into some type of surge protector, but how do you know that your…
We’ve all been using computers long enough to understand the need to keep backups of our most important data. Every one of us, myself included, has had that moment where something went wrong and we lost something. Usually its not anything super important, maybe a document you were working on,…
Almost a year ago today (3/15/12) I made a post here covering my initial thoughts on Windows 8. Back then Windows 8 was still in Release Candidate mode, and Microsoft still referred to their new interface as Metro. Now, its 2013 and Windows 8 has been out since last October,…
I’ve been “online” since sometime in 1992. Back then, I used Prodigy. Prodigy was an early on-line service that existed before AOL started. It was a private service that you paid a monthly charge to interact with other Prodigy members. The Internet was in its infancy back then so everything…
For those of you who aren’t me, you probably don’t pay a whole lot of attention to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held annually every January. The CES is basically THE expo for all tech companies to demo their latest and greatest trying to begin lubricating the wallets of the…
As many of you probably know (or maybe not), I am in a position at work where I get to interview potential candidates for my department. In the past 5 or so years, I’ve probably been a part of 30 or so interviews, and one thing that is shocking to me is…
