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Hi, in my day to day job as an IT specialist I try to help people use the technology that surround us. I have decided to open a blog to help non savvy technology users (that most of us now) in their day to day struggle to make sense of IT & ultimately to use the tech & not be abused by IT.

Warning; English is not my main language & in top of that I am dyslectic, so if you find any mistake feel free to help, you can also find my posts in Hebrew here;

h-t-s-s.blogspot.com

The world around us becomes more complex & difficult with each new gadget, one of my preferred authors coined a word I like very much & that describe quit well our technical surrounding;            Multiplex              (not the theater but the Extremely Complex, maybe it should be ExtraPlex? But I like MultiPlex Better)

The High-tech Gadgets are everywhere in every niche of our daily life, for exemple;

• Our phones that do everything for us but loose it on the first occasion, when they are stolen for example.
• Our cars, that will soon phone home to big brother to tell him that we are speeding!
• Our dogs that are GPS tracked (like our Kids).
• Our cats that can show us in which trash bin they where today before we came home & petted them.
• Our shoe that count our steps, pass this data to the phone to be dissected & that tells us that we are too fat, too skinny, too stressed, or too relax, (Coffee dear?).
•  Our fridge that will become an automatic ordering machine (any coffee left?).
•  Our computers that 80% of us use only for 20% of its possibility.
• Our digital cameras that record all of our family most treasured memorabilia & then we lost it because we do not know how to find it or protect it.
• Our television that now can browse the web or stream our lawfully copied DVD movie from our Desktop or even directly from the cloud.

What is the difference (if any) between ipod, ipack, ipad, iphone, smartphone, dumbphone, dect phone, wirless phone, IP phone, tablet, netbook, laptop, desktop & flattop.

What is the cloud (not the one in the sky), BlueTooth (should I look in the mirror?), Wi-Fi security like WEP or WPA or WPA2, what are those self replicating ports in the back of my PC, HD 1024P, HDMI, Display Port, DVI (sorry, did I began to sound Japanese?). Do we need them & if yes which kind do we need?

So here I am, I will try to help you Juggle with the technology & warn you of the pits. I will try to post one subject per week, but since I am working it may take more than that between blogs posts.