John Waddy

Fix Most of Your Mac Problems with Three Simple Keystrokes

Before you head out to the Apple Store because your iMac, Mac­Book, iPhone, or iPad didn’t do what you wanted it to. Try run­ning a cou­ple of these boot up short cuts, and you might save your­self some time and money. Mac OS Short­cuts Press­ing Com­mand + P + R after the startup tone. This will […]

Lexmark T640: 241.10 Paper Jam Error

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 […]

Secure Your Web Browser

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 […]

Do I Have Enough RAM in my PC?

Upgrad­ing your RAM has an imme­di­ate impact. Every­thing runs faster and smoother afterwards.

Unfor­tu­nately com­puter man­u­fac­tur­ers do not put a pre­mium on RAM, so com­put­ers you buy off of the shelf usu­ally does not include an ade­quate amount of RAM. When cus­tomers are given the option to build their own com­puter, man­u­fac­tur­ers do not place empha­sis on the impor­tance of RAM. As a result, most cus­tomers never increase the amount, because all they see is the hefty price of the upgrade.

I rec­om­mend buy­ing the addi­tional RAM after you buy the com­puter, because buy­ing RAM from Cru­cial or a com­peti­tor costs a lot less that what Apple or Dell will charge, and installing RAM is super-duper easy.