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...
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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...
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,...
Random Bits From the Digital Trenches
Technology is creeping ahead…quickly. iPads are making it off the shelves in massive numbers, and…yes, there is a security issue. Interesting, isn’t it: The more connected we become, the more we are “exposing” our information. And, as the old saying goes, you can make mistakes with computers so much faster...
iPad: So Simple, Even a Cat Can Do It!
Update: Well…the YouTube video was pulled…it was funny, but now it’s gone… Click the “Read More” button to see a cat using and iPad! Link To This Page1. Click inside the codebox2. Right-Click then Copy3. Paste the HTML code into your webpage codebox<a href="http://www.thecomputerwhisperer.us/2010/04/17/ipad-so-simple-even-a-cat-can-do-it/">iPad:...
Welcome to vBlogging!
Ok, here it is….post #1 in a series to…well…video blog. Simple, easy, to the point. Title: How not to video blog. Lesson number 1 is to pay attention to your “environmentals.” That means, the light and the sound, and anything that will be in the frame of the camera’s view (like the...
External Drives vs Off-site Backup Service
Object lesson today. He had backed up about 2 weeks ago to the nice, sleek, 2.5: external hard drive. Yesterday a virus ran amok and the advice (from another source) was to restore the laptop to a factory new install condition. When we go the email account data set back in place, and...
SmartPhones: Good or evil?
I’ll say this: I’m waiting for the Dell “Slate” to hit the streets as my PDA, cell phone and non-existent air card service. I’ve suspected, at the barely conscious level that when we all grab our ‘driods and tap into “all you can eat” web surfing, the networks will begin to wheeze. What next? Well, as...
Seriously, It’s Time to Upgrade.
I have managed to breathe life back into several year old computers on many occasions. I enjoy the challenge, but some computers people are using are just getting to the point of “beyond economical repair.” I recently worked on a 9 year old Hewlett-Packard Pavillion. I’ve been “managing” this computer for a client for almost...
Tuesday Tech Tips
New acronym to absorb: “WUW” – Wear Ur World. Image via Wikipedia As technology allows components to get smaller, and more powerful, the “geeks” among us come up with ways to apply them to practical problems. In this case, it’s a project called “SixthSense.” I have dabbled in voice recognition as far back as the...
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