Tech DC

Online travel booking is easier than ever. And for us lucky folk in Washington DC with three airports (Dulles, Reagan, and BWI) there are flights everywhere and lots of deals. Below are some useful travel sites.
Travel Reservations
Travelocity – early leader in online reservations with roots back to CompuServe and AOL. Now known for the gnome [...]

Dropbox is one of my favorite tools to help small businesses in the D.C. area share files on the cheap.
Dropbox Wiki Info
Besides simply sharing files with your friends, office co-workers, or just your other computers, there are lots of other uses.
See the Tips and Tricks page and Dropbox Add-on page on the Dropbox Wiki explaining [...]

At Tech DC, we regularly set up home theater systems for people. We rely on Monoprice for all our cables. They are great quality and only a fraction the cost of cables from big box and other retail stores.
Local retail stores try to sell a HDMI video cable for $50 with every TV. See the [...]

If you have computers or electronics that you don’t want to be killed by power fluctuations, it’s a good idea to have a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply). The battery in the UPS keeps your equipment running through blackouts our brownouts (reduced power).
Dead Battery
The main problem with a UPS is that its battery might only last [...]

Prevent Lost Data

Many DC area residents have been contacting me lately with hard drive failures and lost data. Data can sometimes be recovered using software such as SpinRite. But it’s easy and relatively inexpensive to be proactive and backup your data. The best backups are automated, using free software such as SyncBack for Windows or [...]