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48-bit Addressing, EIDE, Large Hard Drive Installation

July 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

I was try­ing to install a 500GB hard drive on a customer’s sur­veil­lance com­puter, which is an old IBM NetVista, Pen­tium 4 1.8Ghz, with 768MB RAM. How­ever, the com­puter was too old to rec­og­nize hard dri­ves over 137GB. I knew that West­ern Dig­i­tal had some soft­ware that would appease the oper­at­ing sys­tem and the BIOS, but […]

Lexmark T640: 241.10 Paper Jam Error

July 19th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog, computer tips

I was trou­bleshoot­ing a paper jam issue at the Med­i­cine Shoppe today in Wood River, IL and dis­cov­ered that the printer had printed over 320,000 pages, yet never had a main­te­nance kit installed. Their prob­lem was a text book case of extremely worn rollers. once I installed a pair of new rollers the printer worked […]

Favorite iPhone SEO Apps

July 19th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

When I relaunched this web­site in 2009, SEO was the foun­da­tion. I knew I had valu­able expe­ri­ences, unique sto­ries, and tons of advice to offer my exist­ing client base as well as those who searched the Inter­net for answers. My iPhone is always within reach when I begin writ­ing arti­cles, sto­ries, and reviews. I like […]

Secure Your Web Browser

July 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog, computer tips

If you insist on using Inter­net Explorer to surf the Inter­net, I would encour­age you to use a pro­gram called Sand­boxie to secure your web browser from virus and spy­ware threats that lurk within web pages. Sand­boxie is a pro­gram that will iso­late Inter­net Explorer from the rest of your com­puter, which pre­vents viruses and spy­ware from […]

Norton Removal Tool: The Quickest, Simplest, and Effective Method

July 15th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog, viruses

The Nor­ton removal tool is the quick­est, sim­plest, and most effec­tive method to remove Nor­ton Antivirus, Nor­ton Inter­net Secu­rity, Nor­ton 360, and etc. The only ver­sion of Nor­ton I have not been able to remove is Nor­ton Cor­po­rate Edi­tion. I rely on this util­ity because it removes Nor­ton in less than five min­utes, com­pared to […]

8-bit Super Mario Like You’ve Never Seen

July 12th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

WOW! This is what com­put­ers, cre­ativ­ity, and hard work can pro­duce. Ultra real­is­tic graph­ics, an A+ assign­ment, and an awe­some port­fo­lio edi­tion for a graphic designer.

Macs and Viruses: Myths Debunked

July 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

Most peo­ple state that Mac users do not get infected with viruses because Mac users are “smarter” or because Mac com­put­ers only make up a frac­tion of the per­sonal com­puter mar­ket, and there­fore it would not be a prof­itable mar­ket for virus writ­ers. How­ever, Macs are not eas­ily infected because it is a vari­ant of […]

Norton Internet Security 2011 Review

July 6th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

If Nor­ton Inter­net Secu­rity 2011 is any­thing link the 2010 ver­sion it will cost around $70 for a one year license and will offer pro­tec­tion in the fol­low­ing areas: Anti Virus — This is the tra­di­tional real-time virus scan­ner that mon­i­tors the activ­ity of mali­cious files, and offers an alert if some­thing is spot­ted. The downside […]

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oDesk [Review]

June 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog, reviews

I really like oDesk. I have found that it gets bet­ter once you develop a rep­u­ta­tion with tal­ented peo­ple. When you post your first assign­ment be pre­pared to get bom­barded with e-mails from peo­ple inter­ested in the posi­tion you posted. Often­times, the really LOW rates that peo­ple are will­ing to accept to com­plete your work […]

Want a Virus? Browse the Net.

June 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in blog

I have had eight virus calls in less than one week, and every­one was infected by sim­ply brows­ing web­pages with their browser. You know, just surf­ing the Inter­net. Now before you go off and believe these sites were porno­graphic and free music/movies/games type web­sites, think again. They were social net­work­ing sites, bank­ing sites, and typ­i­cal websites […]