As with all technology, the first company in the market commands high prices, then, over time, with the concepts proven out, the imitators come along, figuring a method of entering the same market, yet having been spared the development costs, they can come in at a lower price point. It happened in the...
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Laptop Batteries – Keep them in/plugged in!
A few weeks ago, listening to The Tech Guy Leo Laporte, I found out I have been operating, and advising people, on old information. The modern day laptop batteries are just fine being plugged in pretty much all the time. I had been telling people to let them run down when you could, then...
Understanding Your Digital Landscape Seminar 11/16/2010
From the flyer, regarding the Seminar I’ll be conducting to help business owners, who are not technically enabled, to better understand what makes their business function: Understanding the Digital Landscape What is it? How do you find it? How do you use it effectively? Computers save us time in everything from information storage and retrieval, calculation, graphic design, and...
Soldier’s Angels VALOur-IT Fund Drive 2010
Technology moves ahead in unpredictable ways, sometimes. History lesson below, for the interested. For those who are ready and need to donate and move on: Click here. If you’re looking to help an old Sailor out, then “push” the button for Navy. Know this: It all goes into the same pot, but, the...
Isn’t it Ironic? Mac OS X Virus arrives
A sesimic shift in the PC word has just happened: A Mac OS X virus is here, coming in the form of a Java script off of social media. The irony? as I was removing a virus off a “real” PC this morning, my client indicated they might buy a Mac, so they...
LimeWire is Dead…
Thankfully. I know a lot of people liked it, as they could avoid, not only paying retail for music and movies, but not pay anything at all….until some of them had to call me, because their computers were so zapped by malware/spyware/scareware/ransomware from embedded “payloads.” In one case it wasn’t pretty at all, with...
We Infect Our Computers Ourselves
Didn’t bookmark it, but a few weeks back, I saw an article that said greater than 50% of computer infections were no user imposed. What does that mean exactly? It means the people who write and manage software are doing a pretty good job of staying ahead of the hacker crowd, but,we the users,...
Some Will Be Horrified, Others Drawn Closer…
From across the room, you wonder…”what is that?” You see no “My Computer” in the upper left side of the screen, but you see the word “Inspiron” (somehow, it is strangely familiar, but you can’t place it. Walking closer, the screen background shows a large, powerful animal starring at you with coal black pupils,...
I’m a sucker for Beta versions…this time: Internet Explorer 9!
Today Internet Explorer 9, in beta test format, hit the web for download. You can get it here. Support for the next version of HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5). After the install, you have to reboot. I went into freak out mode when the reboot began the Windows 7 recovery mode, butthat not being bad enough,...
Is Your eMail Connecting you to Your Brand?
Question: What is the domain of your email you hand out for business? Another: Is it the same as your website? One more: If not, why not? var flashvars = {};flashvars.height=260;flashvars.width=320;flashvars.file="rtmp://fmedia.attainresponse.com/video";flashvars.image="http://apps.attainresponse.com/tmb_wm/ccvideo@comf5-com/1283992186121.jpg";flashvars.id="ccvideo@comf5-com/1283992186121";flashvars.autostart="false";flashvars.shownavigation=true;flashvars.repeat=false;flashvars.allowFullScreen=true;var params = {};params.allowFullScreen=true;var attributes = {};swfobject.embedSWF("http://apps.attainresponse.com/MediaF5/mediaplayer.swf", "mediaContent1283992422551", "320", "260", "7.0.61", "http://apps.attainresponse.com/MediaF5/expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes); Don’t risk leaving your contacts out in the cold…actually, leaving...
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