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Windows 8, Microsoft Surface and a Big Touch Screen Monitor – I’m Living Bill...

Click the picture for a bigger version! Well, maybe it’s Steve Ballmer’s dream now, but that’s in the details. Microsoft announced the Surface two days ago. Yesterday, on my current build, I put the...

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Secure your Google Account beyond just a single password

Last night, I came across an article about a tech writer who had a number of his email and social media sites taken over. Not fun reading. He pointed out the obvious, once more, in his dissection of...

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Windows 8 Adventures: You are now leaving the Mac Zone….or are you?

You can download and install a 90 day trial of Windows 8 (the “RTM” version). My recommendation? Do this is you have a spare, reasonably new computer around. Do not do this to a working system! You...

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Do you have a strong password? Do you use it a lot?

Here’s the reality of our digital lives: We have lots of online accounts and they need passwords. Many people use ones that are easy for them to remember, and tend to use sometimes only one. How does...

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Your Digital World is a complex place, really.

The weekend was interupted by a call from a client who’s computer wasn’t booting. A little bit of over the phone troubleshooting indicated the hard drive was, possibly toast, or maybe just some...

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Time to rethink the dpi for your main web and mobile site images

Just bumped across a review on the new iPads and two sentences caught my eye. The reviewer mentioned surfing to Zillow, the site that lists houses for sale. He commented on how the pictures looked all...

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Windows 8: The hackers are already in it…

This news is a few days old, but is telling: Windows 8 already has it’s own phishing and fake anti-virus malware attacks… Hackers Already Blasting Windows 8 With Phishing, Fake AV Scams as reported in...

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Friday Freebies: Paint Dot Net

The poor man’s PhotoShop: Paint Dot Net, or “PDN.” Click for a larger version This graphics program is FREE! and provides plenty of capability for the casual graphics editing work, and with some...

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Friday Freebies: Comodo IceDragon

For a while now, I bave been using the FireFox based Comodo IceDragon for my browswer. I have long since left Internet Explorer behind, only using it when it was the only option for some things such as...

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SSDS: A blessing, a curse and a cautionary approach

Just built another systems up, with a Samsung 840 240GB SSD. While I’m used to spending the next few hours wandering by the bench, clicking restarts, get updates, etc (some of you know the drill well),...

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LapLink – 30 years and still creating great products!

And they have a laptop giveaway promotion to celebrate! I first used LapLink itself (it was their only product back then) in late in 1992. I had a Mac IIcx, and a soon to be 3 co-worker had spent a...

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Social Media and the Small Business Owner

Yesterday, I had 10 minutes to present to my Christian Professional Network group my overview of social media and what small business people need to know about it. I have used my experience in blogging...

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Windows 8.1 is out. Major issues are being uncovered.

Shades of the disaster of Windows Vista….and attempts to rejuvenate it. Again. I blogged before, after using the beta version of Windows 8 and it’s recreated interface on the screen, commenting on how...

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Malware and Virus attacks get more “life-like”

I spent a few hours pulling a serious malware infection, actually a set of 8 different ones, off a client’s main system yesterday. He contracted the mess at 5:40 PM last Monday. My contention os these...

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“Steering the Ship:” The Navigator

Preface: Just this past week, in a training seminar, I heard the leader say: “I’d like to be the one to steer the ship.” The context was regarding being in charge of things in a business. It grates on...

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“Steering the Ship:” The Watch Officer

In the first of this series of posts, I discussed the purpose of the Navigator, relating it to the planning of a the journey where the ship will need to be steered, and also as a function that...

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Virtual Reality (VR) Coming to Your Life Sonner than You Think!

Virtual Reality, or “VR” for short, is coming on fast. I’ve been engaged in watching it for many years, and in the format of head mounted displays “HMDs,” I first experienced one about 1996, where the...

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Sorry, Apple People, You’re Just Not That Popular

I know, you think I’m less than smart, but let me assure you, I have some idea what I’m talking about. I began as a wildly satisfied Apple ][+ user many decades ago. While others bought “inferior”...

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Did Network Solutions Have a Massive eMail Breach?

Not sure, but this past few days gave me some strange indications that something was up on more than my client’s accounts. It all began with his hard drive (the actual hard drive assembly) having a...

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Laptop Batteries – Keep them in/plugged in!

A few weeks ago, listening to The Tech Guy Leo Laporte, I found out I have been operating, and advising people, on old information. The modern day laptop batteries are just fine being plugged in pretty...

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