The Real Financial and Emotional Cost of Cutting the Cord

What’s the best thing about moving to a new house? Getting rid of all the unnecessary clutter that’s accumulated over the years. The second best thing? Trimming the fat off your utility bills. A new home offers the perfect opportunity for shopping around and getting the best deals on utilities, home services and that biggie: your cable bill.

It is also the best time to try out the concept of cord-cutting. I had been toying with the idea of ditching my monthly cable bill for a few years, but a move across the country was the impetus I needed to start from scratch. Faced with the bill for a 3,000-mile relocation and a 12-month lease on a lovely but ridiculously overpriced home in Mount Pleasant, S.C., I told my family of four that cable had to go – at least for the next year.

Read the whole post here at allconnect.com.

Essential Tech Tools for Telecommuting

Telecommuting is fast becoming part of the mainstream workforce.  If you’re considering a career change that allows telecommuting or planning to implement a remote workflow into your current job, these tech tools will help make cutting the office cord work for you, and – more importantly – for your employer.

A Tablet Turns the World Into Your Office

Thanks to technology, the choice is no longer between a germ-ridden communal office and the isolation of a home office. With a tablet, today’s telecommuter can work from anywhere there’s a really good WiFi or LTE signal. Hooked up to the office via a remote access program such as GoToMyPC or LogMeIn, a tablet can free you from a desk 90 percent of the time. Depending on your office eco-system, the choice is likely between Apple’s iPad, which works far better as a productivity device than it was ever intended to do, and Microsoft’s Surface 2, which, when equipped with LTE in early 2014, looks set to become the darling of telecommuters everywhere.

Read the whole post on @Work: A Career Blog. 

eBay tech blogger

In late October I was offered my dream gig as a tech blogger. For those of you who don't know, I am a closet tech-geek. I love all things tech and I consume tech news ravenously, particularly via the excellent tech podcasting network TWIT. So I was thrilled to be approached by eBay to start writing guest posts on technology for them across various websites and blogs.

I'll be posting links to my blogs here - and I'd love any and all feedback. Also, let me know if there's something tech-related you'd like to read about as I'm always looking for ideas.