I hope online backup services aren’t your only safety net! Don’t be lulled by a false sense of disaster recovery security By using only a remote backup service like Mozy or Carbonite. If all you care about is disaster recovery for your (smaller than their size limits) personal files, photos and the like, these services can be [...]
Carry your whole computer in your pocket? Yes! (well everything you really need) It’s now possible to put almost everything you use every day, including your Microsoft Office and other programs, onto a USB flash drive you can carry in your pocket! How do they do that? The secret is an inexpensive flash drive operating system. [...]
Today’s desktop Windows computers usually come with 2 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports on the front panel and 4 more on the back of the case. So many peripheral devices now use the USB ports that 6 ports may not be enough. When you run out of ports to plug devices into, you’re going to [...]
Just went through a major online disaster – my web hosting company damaged my blogs during a big upgrade of their shared hosting and database infrastructure. And they did it in such a way that I couldn’t recover using the blog and database backups I’d so carefully kept up! Had to move out The blog [...]
The “dirty low-down” on computer products to avoid – and to look for! As a professional independent computer consultant, I sometimes have to deal with poor product choices my clients have made. And new clients often arrive with problem products. Fortunately, clients I’ve had for awhile usually follow my purchase recommendations or let me design [...]
Do quick fixes and preventive maintenance with the best tools. In this video tutorial, I show how to use the $30 ‘JV16 Power Tools’ product from Macecraft Software to do a Windows Registry clean or repair, and how to use some of the many other tools included in the ‘Power Tools’ kit to make your life [...]
When choosing computer products, stick with “defacto industry standard” ones. In other words, unless you have a good reason to do otherwise, go with the “Big Names” – the products which have won the biggest market share. Usually there are excellent reasons why those are the most popular products. But there are exceptions. For instance, [...]
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This service isn’t just for Windows, but I thought I’d share it anyway – highly recommended! Are you a web site owner, blogger or webmaster who needs a fast and easy way to see your traffic metrics? These days, there are several online near-real-time traffic monitoring services – some are pretty darn clunky (that’s a [...]
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