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I would like to cut the telephone cord at my house and switch over to a VoIP system. It would save me hundreds of dollars per year, but my concern is the fastest internet service I can get where I live is DSL with 3Mbps download speed. Correction "up to 3Mbps". The reality is that when I do a speed test I almost always get 2.45Mbps.

My daughter has a handheld game system that doesn't support WPA security for wireless connections. How would you set up a wireless network to allow it access without throwing security out the window? It is WEP compliant, but I would just as soon not have my wireless network security downgraded from WPA2 to WEP.

While I'm not to the level of being a TV worthy horder, I generally don't throw away my electronics. Want to play an original ColecoVision? Come on over and we can play Donkey Kong, Jr. Want to use WordPerfect on a 1994 Acer computer with Windows 95? Let me just pull that out of the upstairs closest.

Lexmark just announced that it is stopping inkjet production. They are apparently going to continue selling their overpriced replacement cartridges for some time to come, however. I still have an inkjet printer at home, but I hate it because of the combination of short cartridge life and high cartridge cost.

There is a transfer app on many HTC phones, but I think it may only work Android to Android, and not with an iPhone.  I don't have an HTC device handy to check on that, but since you obviously do, it might be worth giving a quick look to make sure.

I just read that Windows 7 just passed XP as the most used Window OS. As we get ready for Windows 8, I have to wonder how much longer can people and companies keep using XP? I mean, it is an OS that has been around for a decade, and it is still the OS used by almost 42% of computers that were online last month. That is just amazing.

Microsoft sent out a press release touting a "major" announcement on Monday. We just had E3, and there was a Windows 8 preview event recently. Some of the press is reporting that MS is going to reveal a tablet to challenge the iPad. Is that it? That is somewhat interesting, I suppose.

I think it is an interesting experiment.  Well, maybe experiment isn't exactly the right word.  What I find appealing is that it is outside of the traditional financial infrastructure, and allows you to get away from your bank tracking every online transaction.