TechTalk Blog: Consumer Tech News

American Lung Association Offers Tool to Find Flu Clinics

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:54:43 -0400

Ah, autumn! The air is crisp. The leaves are slowly starting to turn. And those gentle signs of fall start showing up at your local grocery and drug store: the dates for the next flu shot clinics.

Want Your DTV? You Only Have a Couple Days Left

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:29:07 -0400

Yes, the digital TV switch was over a month ago, but you can still get converter box coupons! ... at least for the next couple of days.

Shout it from the mountaintops -- and send it to Pluto

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:28:37 -0400

In one of the more interesting ways of celebrating the moon landings that I've heard about, SentForever is allowing people to transmit free messages into deep space. The messages are launched from a modified dish at British Telecom's satellite earth station (Goonhilly Downs, Cornwall, UK.) as SentForver noted in their

NC Architects & Builders @ your library

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:20:20 -0400

NCSU Libraries recently launched North Carolina Architects & Builders, an online biographical/reference work covering builders in North Carolina. It's got information on about 170 architects and builders as well as information on "hundreds" of buildings. It's available at http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/browse/.

NC Cooperative Extension wants to help you "Take Control"

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:31:03 -0400

Economy got you down? The North Carolina Cooperative Extension wants to help. It has launched a new Web site, NC Take Control, at http://www.nctakecontrol.com/. This site is designed to provide you with tools and information for coping with the economy.

Local universities have iPhone apps

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:54:15 -0400

Appreciating our local universities? There's an app for that. The iPhone has become so popular and so widespread that applications are popping up for all kinds of things, including accessing collections for universities and getting a sightseeing guide for walking around campus.

State Library of North Carolina adds digitized collection of family Bibles

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:55:51 -0400

North Carolina genealogists! Do I have a treat for you. The State Library of North Carolina and the North Carolina State Archives have created a new digital collection: North Carolina Family Records Online. This new resource is available at http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/dimp/digital/ncfamilyrecords/ and contains almost 220 family Bible records as well as all six volumes of the Marriage and Death Notices from Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazetteer: 1799-1893.

Car Nostalgia, Courtesy New York Public Library

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:17:27 -0400

I'm not a car buff. I know where the motor is and that's about it. But I couldn't help being fascinated by this new collection The New York Public Library has on Flickr. The new collection, "G.M. and Chrysler Cars and Trucks, 1897-1938" contains hundreds of photos and is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/collections/72157619203531284/.

Search for Drug Prescription Costs by Zip Code

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:52:32 -0400

There are search engines for everything else, so why not prescription drug costs? Web site Medtipster recently relaunched with a search engine that allows you to search prescription costs by zip code, finding generic alternatives to drugs. It's available at http://www.medtipster.com/.

Google beginning project of searching (and charting!) public data

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:21:29 -0400

You probably rely on Google to search the Web, but in late April it announced a new project to find and compare public data. I waited awhile to see if any more data