about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Hello Boys and Girls, It seems other companies aside from Apple are putting their thinking caps on and breaking all kinds of molds. There was a mold. Apple didn’t exactly break the mold for tablets, as shown in this nifty diagram. All they did was scale it up. An overgrown cellphone won’t last very long…
about 2 years ago - 7 comments
Please follow this email chain between myself and our friend Karl AKA ATA. ————————————— ME Here’s the scenario…. Backed up info off old laptop to external HD. During XP install I saw two identical drives…nuked the first partition and tried to install. XP said no. Nuked the 2nd one…XP allowed the install. JOY!!! You know…
about 2 years ago - 7 comments
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite? No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software! Either…
about 2 years ago - 4 comments
Have you ever wanted to talk to your computer? You know like “Music On” or “Kill Stupid Flanders!” Well in Windows Vista, you can! And it is as easy as this: Click the Start menu >> Click Control Panel >> Click Speech Recognition. >> Click Start Speech Recognition >> Now you can tell your computer…
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Yes, we know you have taken a million digital photos over the last year, on your fancy shmancy new camera. And we also know the holiday season is almost upon us. Being the geek that you are, you could not just leave your pictures named digital_image_13456.jpg for your slide shows… We just couldn’t have that…
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Tired of your standard Windows Startup and Shutdown tunes? If you’re like me, you use your Windows-based computer almost every day. The startup and shutdown sounds have just gotten a little boring to be honest. Here are some simple steps to use your favorite voice, music excerpt, or sound for your computer’s start-up and shutdown…
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
James from Virginia wanted to know if it was safe to delete these Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from his network. Check out our answer and step by step removal tips. Running in a mixed Windows/Mac environment I find it annoying to deal with all the little artifacts the great OS’s leave behind. All of our…
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
By default your windows XP machine shows the Printers and Faxes share along with the Scheduled Tasks folder. You can make use of the scheduled tasks folder like this or use a remote printer share to quickly install a remote printer. Some people like this, most people don’t use it and a few people REALLY…
about 2 years ago - 8 comments
Hello Boys and Girls, Commodore 64 here to bring you another horror story from binary-land. Lord knows I’ve been through hell and back with computers. Overheating CPUs, which were fixed by the cold of the winter outside my apt; crashing hard drives which were fixed or accessed by various means; faulty power supplies, which had…
about 2 years ago - 10 comments
MJ writes to us that her machine runs updates around lunch time and she keeps getting the prompt do you want to restart now? Not only is it annoying – sometimes she clicks yes by accident and her whole world comes crashing down. (See the fix for this at the bottom of the post –…
Spyware remove instructions and guidesBlue Screen Error Xp: [...] here are far worse offenders. Some of the causes of it which contain a variety of equipment...
Kevin Blumer: I never knew that pretty neat now you can have a laptop the same as a smart phone only problem its...
Hari: I was worried about this stuff most when I was planning to switch. I thought about this and I got...
eldipablo: Funny, I have this same unit :-) Can you believe how heavy that sucker is? Still, I like it better...
about 4 years ago
This is great news for the average user. It doesn’t mean too much for those in teh IT field though. I don’t know anyone in the business that doesn’t blow away the OS when they first get a machine to slap their own one so they can configure it the way they want…But that is just me.
Did you know you can get a Dell pre-configured with Ubuntu now? Check it out!
about 4 years ago
Didja all hear? They are axing the dell dimension line as of… Today.
On this the day of its 15th anniversary! It looks like they will be pushing the low end laptop branding that is INSPIRON on the low end desktops that used to be dimension.
Someone in marketing had a bright idea this weekend!
Good bad whatcha think?