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 something [...]

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 screen [...]

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 from [...]

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 Bridge, [...]

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 comes [...]

Presenters take heed!
Really. I might have to sit through one of your presentations…
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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 the [...]

Get some new “eye candy” at Desktop Nexus!

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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 are [...]