Tag Archive - wireless

When Dumb is Better Then Smart

Last week I posted about my public WiFi upgrades and mentioned the fact that I had put in a smart switch to share and prioritize our internet connection. I’m here to admit that smart wasn’t that smart of an idea; or at least that I screwed up when putting it in.  Continue Reading…

The Lord said “Go and Give My People Free WiFi”

Okay maybe it’s not exactly from the Bible, but I think if things were a little different back then Isaiah would have been sitting under a tree with his Netbook desperately trying to find an open WiFi connection so he could update his Facebook status with “back soon. gotta run some errands for the Lord” Continue Reading…

Should the church offer public wifi?

Years ago they used to call it war driving; roaming the neighbourhoods with a laptop, a wifi card and sometimes a high gain antenna. All in the pursuit of a free internet connection.

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iPhone v. BlackBerry v. Android

Let me start by saying I love my blackberry. I’ve been using a blackberry for about 5 or 6 years now. My current unit is a Bold 9000 and despite some battery issues and the lack of an official OS5 I’m very happy with it. For the last 2 years my wife has been using an iPhone 3G and she loves it. I tried for many years to get her into a smart phone but she wouldn’t do it. She saw the blackberry as being too corporate and as a teacher, that’s foreign ground for her. But I kept taking her to the phone shops and showing her the iPhone and one day she said “maybe she could see using it”. So I buried that in the back of my mind and 3 months later she opened up her new iPhone at Christmas. And since then she can’t imagine going back to a dumb phone.

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