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Printer Connections – USB, Ethernet or WiFi?

TL;DR Executive Summary If at all possible, connect your new printer to your wired Ethernet network, even if you only have one computer and even if your computer(s) are connected wireless via WiFi. Back in the good old days, most printers connected with a serial or parallel port. Parallel ports were easy, but very limited …

A Brief Introduction to the Internet of Things

The following is some background information about the Internet of Things, in preparation for a speech at Kemp Mill Toastmasters on January 4, 2017. I gave a technical introduction for the non-technical audience as Toastmasters Advanced Communicator Series, Technical Presentations, Project # 5 – Enhancing a Technical Talk with the Internet. The PowerPoint presentation is …

PicturePDF

One of our recent projects is www.PicturePDF.com. PicturePDF is the easiest way to turn pictures into PDFs. Have you ever received a picture from someone and when you tried to print it, it came out REALLY BIG or really small? Has anyone ever sent you scanned documents and you couldn’t print them correctly because they …