Dongles

I have just received another useless dongle in the mail. I purposefully ordered this one, as I did all the others, now resting dormant in my special dongle drawer, but by the time I received it, I realized I didn't need it. This dongle is a USB attachment with audio and microphone jacks so you can use Skype or some other internet VOIP service, and just plug your headphones and mic into this gizmo, which goes into a front (or any) USB port. After ordering it, I realized both our pcs have front audio/mic jacks so we will only need this dongle if one of the jacks stops functioning.

I am writing this post, because the word 'dongle', in combination with the many useless 'dongles' I own, is intriguing to me. Did they mean for the word to sound so naughty? It does sort of 'hang out there' from your device in a male manner. I would never use the word in front of my mother.

All the dongles in my dongle drawer are USB types. One is a wifi dongle which seems to work well with my pc but since our wireless router is older, it didn't tie our network together well, and I had to go back to the old ethernet cable for home networking. Another dongle I have is a blue-tooth dongle. I believe I purchased this one to sync a phone that I had no sync cable for. I think I decided I hated the phone, and sent it back, so never used the dongle. I keep them all "just in case". Of course, I will never need any of them until the moment after I have chucked them and the trashman has come and gone.

So, that's it for dongles. I hope to stick with this blog thing and post some useful information on video and audio editing and any other helpful things I have learned in life that might help or entertain someone else out there in cyber world.