We are two people who have worked in engineering, product marketing, marketing, sales, PR and management in the tech industry for over 25 years. We continue to review and follow latest tech trends and still geek out over new and cool ideas.Our education backgrounds are in electrical engineering, data communications, English and business administration.

In 2008, the "great recession” made our monthly satellite subscription (that jumped from the introductory rate of $39.99 to over $150) very unappealing. Our solution was a $300 e-machines computer (we named her Emmie) running Windows 7 Media Center, a Hauppauge USB dongle for broadcast TV, a small antenna in the attic, and a streaming subscription to Acorn.tv. After this initial investment had paid for itself within a matter of months, we just kept exploring…