Pumping your computer into your big-screen TV is becoming more and more common these days. The idea is simple: use your flatscreen plasma (or whatever) as a secondary computer monitor, either for work purposes or to watch the growing number of Internet videos on your television. Here’s a little gadget that makes it easier to control the action from your easy chair — without the need for a keyboard or mouse.

USB Geek is selling a controller that has both a touchpad and a Blackberry-style keyboard on the bottom. It connects to your PC via wireless USB that has a 30 …read more

For my “day” job, I work with a number of custom database applications that we develop. One of them being our complete task, CRM, project management solution. Normally, my business partner and I are connected to each other through the same network or a switch so I can almost always see his machine and run off a single copy of the SQL database back end connection.
Today though is a different story, I ended up having to work remotely at a coffee shop so needed to run off my local back-up copy of the database. The only problem is that when …read more