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There used to be a time when the weather people couldn't get the weather right if they looked out the window ahead of time. Meteorology has come so far along now that your weather forecaster can effortlessly nail what the weather will be like three days from now. Unfortunately, our expectations have risen far past that. No longer are we happy to know what it will be like three days from now. We want to know what it'll be like a week from now so that we can plan our weekend. With expectations like that, modern terminology can often seem inaccurate and clunky.

In fact, your weather forecaster can be so off-base for what is to happen a week from now, that he might as well flip a coin.

Now here's something worth noticing about what kind of things your weather forecaster is able to get right and what he gets wrong. They are often not very good at telling when the weather is going to turn bad. If there is a small rainstorm thunderstorm coming up 45 min. from now, they're not really going to be able to tell. Those things are small, fast and unpredictable. It can be hard to tell which way those clouds are going and it can be hard to tell if they'll actually produce rain.

Funny how Hulu will give you entertainment for your computer at a low price, but will charge extra if you want watch the same thing on your television. They'll call their television product Hulu Plus and charge you more for it. If you think that's a scam, there's a way you can use your laptop wireless connection to connect to your television wirelessly and watch away. You don't have to bother with any special adapters or cables. All you need to do is to use your laptop wireless connection. As Hulu streams to your laptop, your laptop uses the Wi-Fi connection to stream it directly to your TV. And the problem.

This isn't some kind of home hack either. There are lots of great big name companies that have products out there that do this out-of-the-box. Netgear has its Push2TV, and Imation has Link, for instance. Let's take a look to see which method can work best for you.

More or less, these products cost the same. Netgear's product is a little cheaper though – at about $100. So let's take a look at how works.

The technology that pushes consumer electronics advances very quickly. And perhaps these days, but there's no single area of consumer technology that sees as much innovation on a regular basis as television technology. Just think about it – from the late 70s to the late 90s, the only thing they did to televisions was to make the screens darker and somewhat flatter. Remote controls and electronic controls became common too, but basically as far as the picture went, somewhat flatter and darker screens were all you got. That's not how it is these days. First came the flatscreen CRT television in the mid-90s, and then plasma, and then LCD, and then superpowerful compact projectors. Now, everyone's wondering about what is an LED TV, exactly.

Well, if LED and LCD didn't sound nearly the same, no one would ever get these two things technologies mixed up. People look at the nearly identical names and think that an LED TV must be a kind of television – the way LCD and plasma are different kinds of television.