Computer Support Blog

Using wireless security cameras is a popular way to protect your home or business from intruders.  However, many wireless security cameras are difficult to set up and maintain.  Cam.ly is a cool product that is aiming for users to avoid the many headaches associated with wireless security cameras.  The Cam.ly is an IP camera that adds several unique features based in the cloud to distinguish itself from other video security options.  Cam.ly claims that their wireless security takes only seconds to set up properly before use.  This is possible because Cam.ly uses a cloud system to record and host your security video.  Therefore, you do not need to worry about excessive wiring or connections beyond the wireless network in your home or business.  Read more »

While many people make an attempt to grow healthy food at home, it can be difficult to optimize the growing conditions for fruits and vegetables.  Without the correct expertise, many who grow food in our gardens are merely making educated guesses about the best methods to treat plants.  Jason Aramburu is a cool person in technology who wants to change this by giving people the power to measure things such as the nutrient content, pH, temperature, and moisture of their soil accurately.  Aramburu wants to give people the appropriate help so they can grow healthy, sustainable food at home.  He calls the device and system that he’s developed to give people this help Soil IQ. Just as good computer support makes using technology easier for many people, Aramburu wants Soil IQ to have the same effect on those trying to grow their own food. With Soil IQ giving people the data they need to ensure they’re doing everything right to cultivate their own fruits and vegetables, Aramburu is hoping that more people will choose to grow healthy food at home in the future.  Read more »

One of the key aspects of marketing a book has always been holding book-signing events.  These events help to create hype a writer’s work and allow authors to connect directly with their biggest supporters, which increases the chances that those supporters will spread the word about their favorite author’s books.  Book signings have always been an effective way for authors to communicate and promote their books to their readership.  However, with eBooks on the rise over the last several years, traditional books are taking up the less of the market.  This introduces a serious problem for authors: how do you continue to promote your work through book signings when more and more content is digital in nature?  Cool product Autography provides a solution to this conundrum.  Autography has created a system for the digital signing of eBooks.  With new advances in technology, Autography allows authors to personalize eBooks for their readers and attach digital signatures and individualized messages so readers can receive personalized copies of books just as they would at a physical book signing.  Read more »

So suppose for the moment that you are not driving your fully automated vehicle that drives itself where you want to go. How can you still get the greatest benefit from technology linked to your car?  You may already have a dashboard system that manages your onboard communications and security, but what about something that monitors your driving style?  Sure, user-based insurance policies have helped make safe driving cheaper.  Yet the cofounders of Driveway Software take issue with the current system.  The team has developed a completely free app, Drivewise.ly that helps “create new, safe drivers.” Read more »

If you’re like most people, you are keeping an eye on the national and global economy while increasingly enjoying science fiction-like technological advances.  These advances are creating “more wealth with less work.”  But where are the new jobs going to come from? Read more »

How far has identity authentication come?  From formerly high tech methods such as face unlock to retinal scanners in action-packed spy movies, technology is moving toward a system that requires “putting your heart into it.”  Imagine coming home and, without any action on your part, pulling into an unlocked garage, entering your unlocked home, and entering a room where your music of choice and even your room temperature of choice welcome you home.  Add having your favorite dinner on the table and the candles lit and you’d have the perfect picture! Read more »

The term “Internet of Things” continues to evolve in meaning, just as innovators continue to create this connection of all objects, both physical and virtual, to a global network infrastructure.  Using increasingly more complex means of data capture and communication capabilities, engineers build new pathways in this global network.  One such engineering innovator is Taylor Alexander, founder of Flutter Wireless, an alternative to traditional Wi-Fi.  It’s what Taylor calls a “second network”.  The alternative to Wi-Fi can cover 100 times as great an area, using relatively little power.  Read more »

You need to get just the perfect shot for that spur-of-the moment picture from your smartphone, but what to do about the “rock-and-roll” action in your arm?  Time to get an extending arm to steady your smartphone.  Clamp it in place with a new device from Joby.  The MPod Mini is an incredibly compact, flexible tripod with two rubberized jaws.  Joby specifically designed this latest edition to the Gorillapod line to hold your smartphone securely in a stationary place.  Read more »

Do you have your school shopping under control?  Are you sure you have thought of everything that might make this year’s academic experience high tech quality?  “Bring words and ideas into your digital world automatically and wirelessly” is the appeal of Livescribe’s newest version of the smartpen – the Sky.  Advances in tech support have made possible the use of highly sophisticated technologies on a scale as small as that of a pen!  “What starts on paper doesn’t have to stay there,” declares Livescribe’s website. Read more »

“Going where no device has gone before,” according to Leap Motion’s website, “the Leap Motion controller is an amazing device for the things you do every day and for things you never thought you could do.”  Some of those things you never thought you could do might include soaring in toward a planet at the furthermost corner of the galaxy, drawing, painting, or sculpting a 3D creation, or yes, even playing a virtual musical instrument.  For the serious science student, dissecting a frog or taking apart a human skull has never been so within your virtual reach!

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