The History of Snapshot Technology

History of Snapshot Photography Technology

Snapshots are everywhere – in family albums, scrapbooks, and even in forgotten corners of dresser drawers.  With the advent of affordable digital cameras and smart phones, we can now have a highly capable camera with us at all times, ready to record something of interest at any moment.  Yet it wasn’t always so easy for…

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Printable Gift Card

printable gift card image folded

Boomer Tech Talk is pleased to provide a gift card you can use to write your own message (in actual handwriting – old school style) and give to the person you’re sending the gift to. It’s free, with the exception of the color ink you’ll use printing it out. (Boomer Tech Talk readers have a…

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Backing Up is NOT Hard to Do

Backing up your computer is like flossing – eventually, you’ll realize it was a good idea to do it regularly. Recently, I received an e-mail from a long-time friend requesting my contact information, which he had lost when his hard drive crashed. It was his first such experience, and it was far more painful than…

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Why Blenders Should be More Like Computers

Over the past three decades I’ve owned many computers – big towers, notebooks, laptops, desktops, transportable all-in-ones, and ultra-light portables.  Worked on everything from a Tandy 100 to a SPARC station.  So I have a pretty good idea of what computers can do. I’ve also owned a good number of blending devices.  In fact, right…

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