Sorry for the long delay. I have spent the past three days spending all of my time working with screencasting software and setting up on my Vista machine so I can start spilling out Vista screencasts. I know you all are looking for the simple things in windows Vista so I am going to start making it as easy as it comes! Continue Reading →
Hey Everyone,
This article is very technical — wayy above those that I have posted previously. Unfortunately, it seems to be necessary if you want to use bluetooth devices in windows Vista. Yes, that means syncing your PDAs, using Printers, or Wireless Headphones/Headsets with Vista (Skype, anyone?). Continue Reading →
Yesterday I told you that suspend mode is not worth having turned on. Today I’m going to show you how to turn it off.
The method is quite simple in both Vista and XP. Since I only have XP available to me I’ll show you that method and then you’ll be able to extrapolate how to do it in Vista. Continue Reading →
In continuing with my talk on backups I thought I’d list out some common things you should think about backing up.
- Accounting Software
- Quicken
- Quickbooks
- Turbotax
- My Documents Continue Reading →
I have heard a lot of websites promote Firefox and they said that it was better than Internet Explorer because of several features which Firefox has — they often state that Firefox is better than IE because it is “more stable” and “more resilient to spyware and viruses.”
But why? This is the question that they never seem to answer. The fact that it is is a great reason to go Firefox (and the price is right.) But what makes it more resiliant and more feature-full than Internet Explorer? What did Mozilla corp do right that Microsoft failed to do? Continue Reading →
Some good friends who I had sent off to live in Israel with two laptop computers called me up and told me that one of them had randomly run a system restore.
Don’t ask me how that one happened, but it did. The problem was, the computer had several thousand songs on it that they really didn’t want to lose. Especially since getting replacements for those songs involved a lot of communication with the United States. Since it costs a lot to send packages back and forth, that wasn’t really an acceptable option.
Apparently they had run a “soft” system restore.
Learning the difference between a hard and soft system restore is a good idea. Continue Reading →
The first thing I usually do on a tech support call is to check to see that the computer I’m working on doesn’t have spyware active on it. Many computer problems seemed to be caused by spyware and the world would be a better place without it.
When I run this sweep the people I’m working with usually ask me “What is spyware?” This is what I answer: Continue Reading →
Just about everyone has to work with email these days. Grandparents, parents, children, teachers, workers, the list goes on. More and more often, images are being sent within emails and people are finding that email clients are less than optimal for viewing images. Images are too large, emails get deleted, and other problems plague images in emails. Continue Reading →
I have heard a lot about the new Microsoft Operating System. Not surprisingly it has been both good and bad. There is one resounding issue which seems overwhelming in every aspect of Windows Vista.
It is all or nothing, baby. Continue Reading →
“Because technology works for you, not the other way around.”