Archive for September, 2009

“BSOD” – Blue Screen of Death to all too many of us with Windows of some variant. Cause: Depends. How old is your computer? Are your drivers up to date? If it’s not a very old computer, it could be divers. If you’ve gotten your mileage out of it,then it may be...
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This has been the week of malware. I have not had to fix two systems, where somehting crawled in via the internet connection and took over the computer. Case 1) Total Security 2009. You could not get to the Internet, the screen was resized down to 640×480 (making it difficult to redo things like...
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Consider this: Every solution for a business is essentially unique, even when you are using some of the same hardware or software as the next person/company. Within what you are doing, there will be commonality, but…what suits one won’t suit all. What got me thinking of this is a conversation that continued yesterday...
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Mark Broderick died on 9/11/2001 in New York City, a casualty of the attacks by terrorists. He is survived by his wife Carolina and three sons, Matthew, Andrew and James. 40 Years old at the time of his death, he graduated from St John’s University on Staten Island and lived in Old...
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Poor man’s PhotoShop: “Paint Dot Net (PDN).” Great because: 1) Free 2) Started by some college students, still maintained and updated by now not college students 3) Free 4) All sorts of add ons for many special effects 5) Free 6) Layers! 7) Free Meets the advanced (over MS Paint – that...
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Presenters take heed! Really. I might have to sit through one of your presentations… embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Link To This Post1. Click inside the codebox2. Right-Click then Copy3. Paste the HTML code into your webpage codebox<a href="http://www.thecomputerwhisperer.us/2009/09/07/death-by-powerpoint/">Death by PowerPoint</a> powered by Linkubaitor...
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So, as it seems to always has been, people can go beyond the bounds of common sense and good manners, so the Government steps in. Just know, some of this is purposefully brought on by those on the web, we “find” a new way to pump up their position on the search engines. Now...
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Get some new “eye candy” at Desktop Nexus! Link To This Post1. Click inside the codebox2. Right-Click then Copy3. Paste the HTML code into your webpage codebox<a href="http://www.thecomputerwhisperer.us/2009/09/05/bored-with-your-desktop-picture/">Bored with your desktop picture?</a> powered by Linkubaitor
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Just as we are getting the old style CRT (cathode Ray Tube) monitors and TVs out of our houses and offices, finally, and the LCD screens are common place and very cost effective, the next wave of display technology is rolling out: LED screens. Samsung has introduced a line of LED TVs, and they...
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