Kevin Yank

Recent articles in tech (page 5 of 9)

  1. Mar 31, 2007 Lame Mac User

    I bought my first Mac yesterday—a spiffy, black MacBook. I've spent the first 24 hours with my new computer setting up various means of running Windows on it (Remote Desktop, Boot Camp, and Parallels). In the Mac world, I'm pretty sure that makes me very lame.

  2. Feb 4, 2007 In-Car Navigation with a TomTom GO 710 in Australia

    TomTom GO 710In my last post, I introduced the TomTom GO 710 GPS receiver (GPSr). I recently bought this device for car navigation but have since found it to be a surprisingly versatile gadget! With the right collection of tweaks and add-ons, it can become a great device for geocaching, and a lot more besides. In this post, I'll describe the TomTom GO 710's on-road navigation features, and offer some useful tips on how to make them better!

  3. Feb 4, 2007 Navigation, Geocaching and More with a TomTom GO 710

    Kevin holds up the Penny Bridge geocache and smilesIf you’ve been watching my Flickr photos lately, you’ll have noticed that Jess and I are getting into geocaching, the world-wide treasure hunt where participants follow GPS coordinates to the locations of hidden caches of goodies. The one essential tool for geocaching is a GPS receiver (GPSr), which gave me the perfect excuse to add this long-coveted piece of technology to my car. But finding a unit that would make a good on-road navigator (with good maps, nice screen, useful routing features, and an extensive Points of Interest (POI) database) as well as a good tool for geocaching (offering accurate coordinates and useful off-road navigation features) would prove to be a challenge.

  4. Jan 31, 2007 Connect to a Network Printer on a Windows XP Server in Windows Vista

    For better or worse, Windows Vista is out today and I'll shortly be moving to it as the primary operating system on both my work and home PCs. Aside from compatibility glitches in certain Adobe applications, everything I need to work on Vista does (if a little shakily, in the case of Firefox). The one issue that almost prevented me from making the move was my need to connect to the shared printer at the office.

  5. Dec 20, 2006 Fundamental Audio

    The audio and slides from my talk at Fundamentos Web 2006, as well as the panel discussion in which I participated, are now available on the conference web site.