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Posts about the web – things discovered there, and created there.

June 20, 2013

GeekLift: Digitize your signature, edit PDFs, and speed up your cell phone practices

By Josh Benson
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20June

Welcome to Thursday! You’ve almost made it to the weekend. In today’s installment of the GeekLift, I’m going to try to wean you off that old fax machine. Yes, they still come in handy from time to time, but they’re really not necessary. I’ll teach you a two-fer: digitize your signature and use it with PDFs so you can dump that fax. I also have some quick nuances to...

June 13, 2013

GeekLift: Holy hashtags, hide internet searches and speed up iPhone

By Josh Benson
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13June

  Good Thursday to you! We’re almost to Friday and that is fantastic news. There has been a lot of buzz on the web about Facebook embracing hashtags. If you’re not up on hashtags and how you can use them to search, I’ve got you covered. Also, if you like to search the web and would rather not have people see what you’re searching I have a tool for you for that as well...

June 11, 2013

2013 WWDC Summary

By Josh Benson
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11June

No more kitties. One of the big surprises from  the 2013 Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco was the name of the new operating system release. For what seems to be forever, Apple has always named their software after cats, Tiger, Lion, Snow Leopard, the list goes on. But this year is different. They’ve switched their naming conventions to California landmarks. This...

June 2, 2013

Sunday project: Nest Thermostat installation

By Josh Benson
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02June

I’ve begun transforming our apartment into a ‘smart’ apartment. My goal is to start adding some high-tech features to help streamline our lives with more efficiency, less headache and just a solid dose of ‘cool’. I have been testing out the Rec10 Wireless Internet Booster by Amped Wireless. So far, so good. I’m able to fill my apartment with a solid internet...

May 31, 2013

Why you should back up cloud data

By Josh Benson
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31May

When ‘cloud’ servers started popping up, I have to admit, I didn’t know what was going on. I understood the premise, but I couldn’t quite understand how these servers would handle the massive amount of data people consumed and saved. But now ‘the cloud’ is a popular option for hosting your information. But should I be worried Google loses all my Gmail...

May 27, 2013

The new mid-life crisis: the Internet

By Josh Benson
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27May

If you were asked to step away from the Internet, could you? No, stop and think hard. Could you actually stop using your cell phone apps, maps, Twitter, Facebook, Angry Birds, Skype, Facetime, Google….? Paul Miller is a man who took the challenge. I won’t tell you how it ends. But this video is quite a project by Paul and the group at The Verge. I didn’t know anything about Paul...

May 22, 2013

Pronounce GIF: Format creator honored, confirms how you say it

By Josh Benson
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22May

They’ve surrounded us forever. They’re the little, animated images that you find on horribly designed home-made websites from yesteryear, to the massively-visited sports and social websites of today. The animated GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) has proven it is much more popular than the tired old  .bmp, .rips, .figs and many other file formats we’ve seen over the years. The...

May 13, 2013

What is a fingerprint scanner? Passwords could be a thing of the past

By Josh Benson
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13May

When was the last time you went to a website you haven’t been to in months or years and attempted to log in? You were forced to think back to last year and your most popular password you used for all your accounts. We’re told to change our passwords often, so if you try to log in with a newer variation of your old password, congratulations, you’re listening. But that still...

May 10, 2013

Wireless Booster: Improve your Wi-Fi signal in your home

By Josh Benson
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10May

Preview: Rec10 Wireless Extender by Amped Wireless Does our house or office have a black hole when it comes to wireless internet? I live in a relatively small apartment, a place you’d think would be chalk full of high-speed internet converage from my Wi-Fi connection. Not the case. I actually have a lot of trouble getting a solid internet signal in my bedroom which is about two rooms away...

April 27, 2013

New season. New website.

By Josh Benson
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27April

Hey everyone. Thanks for stopping by the website. I’m doing a little spring cleaning. I’m adding in a new theme and while I generally don’t program and design ‘live’ (since it’s a terrible practice), I’m doing so or a few days to monitor the layout of this new theme. I’m restructuring the way this blog works – more about the good stuff: Tech...

Josh Benson

Josh Benson writes about the web, social media, entrepreneurship, television news and life in general. He covers the days news as a news anchor for WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida. He's also a web designer/developer. He lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife Tara and two daughters Bella and Brooklyn.

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