Winches are a quickly growing product market in the off road parts industry. Along with big name companies like Mile Marker or Warn winches offering up contributions, smaller niche-market companies are beginning to join the fray. While the general premise of off road recovery and utility has remained the same, new advancements in winch technology make choosing the...
Digital cameras offer so many functions and features, photography can seem way too complex for the beginner. In frustration, many new photographers simply switch their digital camera to auto, and never learn how to use it properly. If you read that and thought “That sounds like me!” read on; I have good news. There are some great ways to take better photos...
Keeping up with internet news sources What’s your favorite website where you go to catch up with what’s happening in the world? Maybe you’ve got more than one. Maybe like me, you have several.What if you could gather all the news from all those locations and have it fed into one list of articles that you can read in one place? You need Google Reader! This...
The U.S. government may soon require online communications services to water down their encryption techniques. The proposed legislation, which federal law enforcement and national security officials hope to present to Congress in 2011, would mandate that all services that can be used for online communications be capable of providing transcripts of their users’...
Is tech writing a good job? That was the question the newsletter article began with last week. I talked about what a technical writer does and for whom. This week, I want to finish up with “What do you need to know to be a technical writer?” and “How do you get into the business?” Before I get to that, though, I want to toss out an idea I ran...
