An increasing amount of agencies have gone (or are considering going) paperless via tablet devices such as iPads. Besides looking cool, the reason is obvious; for the multitude of benefits and efficiencies it provides. Several cities are considering funding only a portion of the new technology, therefore making the employee responsible for a portion of the expense. Implementing new technology has never been so creative! City Council members and/or staff will no longer need to search through thick agenda packets of memos, contracts and reports at their meetings. Instead, they finger-tap through electronic documents on sleek, lightweight iPads. The paperless agenda process is made simple with the iPad and apps such as “Dropbox” and “iAnnotate.” The...

People wonder why their digital photos are so large in file size, super slow to print or upload, or why when they add it to a Powerpoint file, their Powerpoint file ends up being humongous. Let's start with some definitions. Megapixels or MP = amount of pixels in millions in a digital image also known as resolution. Resolution = dimensions of the image in pixels, so Width x Height. The higher the resolution, the more pixels fit in that image and the larger the image will be. So you're probably thinking that the higher the resolution the higher the quality of the image? Well, this is true but only in extreme cases, for example if you were printing out wall sized images or billboards. For a fixed size display, higher megapixels do not absolutely...

Shopping for a new phone? Consider the WP7 (Windows Phone 7) from Microsoft. I’ve had mine for a couple weeks, so I’ll provide my personal review.

There are a few different hardware choices out there, so I won’t say much on that. Microsoft has done a good job in enforcing a set of minimum requirements, so it really comes down to personal preference - like if you want a physical keyboard, how much memory, how big the screen is, etc. Here is what I found for the Good, Bad and Ugly.

The Good What I really like and what Microsoft has done really well in, is the implementation of the home/lock screens....