Take Your Technology Pulse Whether you have a business or for just personal needs, you use technology to some degree. Some use it more than others and stepping back to see where you are can be encouraging or discouraging. I personally embrace technology to "Sharpen my saw" or get more our of life. The scale with which I measure myself is different than that of my clients as I am coaching them to get in front of the technology wave and hopefully make their life easier. I know someone out there just said "Yea, like life doesn't have enough frustration and I need to add more to my life!" I put them in the "still trying to learn to program the VCR" when the TiVo and DVR have been around for a while. I can relate to this as I just got a DVR in the beginning of the year and I can say it takes all the pain out of trying to master programming your VCR. Yes, I am now hooked to the DVR and I don't have the portability of VCR tape but I have all the convenience and live in the "Now", not the "Round To It". I looked at buying a Digital DVD Recorder and doing it myself but that could be another VCR Programming effort and not as reliable and easy as the DVR.
We can see the "Stuck in time" people and they eventually take a step up the technology staircase, even while others are using the escalator or, for the faster folks, the elevator. If you watch the show "60 Minutes" you may have noticed Andy Rooney gave into the computer age and (several years ago) dumped his 1920 Underwood manual typewriter. This from a man who may have been "Stuck in time" by some standards. I say this with all due respect but he refuses to trim his eyebrows for some reason (lets not mention George Whipple either). It may be for some grooming principle that is based on "real men don't need to do that" (but will take care of protruding nose or maybe ear hair).
I can relate to that when it comes to body piercing, albeit an ear(s) or other extremity, it "ain't for me". So let's see where you are on the computer technology compendium.
What is your computer horse power?
Type CPU, Processor Speed, Hard Drive Size,
What Operating System are you using?
Windows 98/XP/Vista?
How do you connect to the internet? (Can you say broadband?)
Dial up/DSL/Cable Modem/Fiber Optics
Remember, we all grew through the dial up era before there was broadband and you can only get dial up in certain sections of the country but most applications have grown so "fat" in size and usage of bandwidth you will see a slow response when working online. Next time we'll go into applications and staying up to date with software and accessories.
