Understanding LCD Display Dead Pixels

Understanding LCD Display Dead Pixels
A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a thin, electronic flat panel used to display information and images. It includes monitors for computers, televisions, instrument panels, and other devices ranging from aircraft cockpit displays, to every-day consumer devices such as video players, gaming devices, clocks, watches, [...]

How to Speed Up Windows 7

The problem that Windows 7 has is nothing new. In fact, a slow computer is something that has been plaguing Windows systems since the invention of PC’s… but there’s a specific problem inside Windows 7 that is the main cause of its slow speed. This issue is so common that it’s [...]

Microsoft Security Essentials

For years now I have been using AVG as my antivirus program and occasionally (always on others machines) I will use a couple of different antispyware programs to clean up a computer.

At work we use McAfee, which is a bit of a resource hog although it seems to be easy enough to deploy and update [...]

Find Sound Driver

Over the years I have reinstalled Windows on many machines and when I have I have had trouble the most with drivers for two components more than any other, Video cards and sound cards.
If you have a chance to see the drivers on a Windows XP machine before you reload Windows it is always a [...]

Home Computer Backup Strategy

There is one constant with computers. They Crash. I support lots of computers and can tell you that one thing that is very very important is doing backups in one way or another for your computer and data. There are two kinds of software that you can look at for your backups. Software that will [...]

Internet Explorer XML Vulnerability

There was a report yesterday that there was a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 7 but today I see that the vulnerability affects both IE 6 and IE 5 as well.
Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Our investigation so far has shown that these attacks [...]

Dell NetBook Inspiron 910

I have been waiting for this thing for the last few days and have noticed that people on the Dell site are getting mad at having to wait (see the comments there).
I am planning to buy another Dell Inspiron 1525 for the kids to fight over and am still waiting for the Netbook 910 to [...]

Getting control of your online life

This came to me as a bit of a surprise but Chris Brogan, possibly the king of social media marketing, has a new blog post tonight which is one of those top 10 lists of links that I always like.
Ten Tech Solutions To Improve Your Productivity
The list of the top 10 tips includes services that [...]

How to make your PC look like a Mac

I have tried over the years to make my PC experience better. I have tried all those stupid or good little applets that will add ease and functionality but sadly I have never made my PC work as nice looking as Vista, I ma sure many may disagree.
I just found a page on the American [...]

Wishing for Dual Monitors

I am home sick today and am really missing some of the nice things that I have at work, especially my dual monitors.
I work on a laptop so I have the laptop screen at home and at work and even though the resolution of 1280 x 800 is OK, with the extra monitor it is [...]

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