Saturday, March 20, 2010

Desktop Computer

Understanding LCD Display Dead Pixels

Understanding LCD Display Dead Pixels A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a thin,... 


How to Speed Up Windows 7

The problem that Windows 7 has is nothing new. In fact, a slow computer is something... 


Microsoft Security Essentials

For years now I have been using AVG as my antivirus program and occasionally (always... 


Find Sound Driver

Over the years I have reinstalled Windows on many machines and when I have I have... 


Home Computer Backup Strategy

There is one constant with computers. They Crash. I support lots of computers and... 


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IT Skills

Treating users like people

As someone doing tech support or tech work how can you add value in the work that... 


Apache Tomcat

I just installed an Apache Tomcat server. Very exciting to me. I have installed Apache... 


Moving data and settings to a new laptop

My wife just got a new laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1525 and she had decided that she... 


Zebra printer problems

I ran into an issue with the Zebra printer in after hours when on call a few days... 


What does it mean to work at a startup?

I have had a great time watching a blog post by Jason Calacanis explode on the blogosphere... 


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Web 2.0

All Abuzz about Google Buzz

I have finally got Google Buzz, after wondering yesterday when it was going to come. For those that are not really aware Google Buzz is apparently Google trying to steal the Twitter market although I am not sure if that is really right. To get Google Buzz you just need to log into your GMail account and you will see it right under your email inbox.... [Read more of this review]


Firefox 3.5 Released

Well another new Firefox release and this one is supposed to be good. I have not done any beta testing with the new Firefox as it tends to be hard to regress to an older version so today I just installed the newly released Firefox 3.5. I like the new Firefox so far except for one crappy niggly problem with any new release and that is that most of my... [Read more of this review]


Wordpress 2.8

Well I am slowly upgrading all of my sites to Wordpress 2.8 and damn it seems good. One big site that I have was having trouble though. I was getting 500 internal server error after doing an upgrade on a rather large blog and this is what I now do to troubleshoot all Wordpress errors. 1. Rename the /wp-content/plugins folder to plugins2 this will disable... [Read more of this review]


1 Million Twitter Followers

I just caught onto a race that is really interesting. As you may know, or not, I am on Twitter and just love the interactivity that is possible in the whole medium of Microblogging. A few months ago there was a story that Lance Armstrong may have 1 million Twitter followers by the beginning of the Tour de France and although that may in fact be possible... [Read more of this review]


Firefox 3.1 beta 3 out

I am always excited about a new release of Firefox. I love Firefox for the fast rendering of pages and especially for the extensions that I use Firefox for. Extensions or “Add-Ons” as the Firefox guys call them add a lot of power to the app and lets you get things done very quickly or give you info that would be cumbersome to get if you... [Read more of this review]


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