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 [...]
I’m probably the last expert on the planet to comment on Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7. But I doubt if anyone is more of a fan. After installing, configuring and testing software on 4 new computers, which I designed for one of my clients, and after installing these PCs at their site, networking them [...]
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 [...]
Ideas for saving money on your computer needs: Buy Used Equipment Computer Recyclers: If you live in an urban area there is probably a computer recycling center nearby. Usually these outfits build computers from the best of the donated equipment they receive – which they then sell at astonishingly low prices. Online Auctions: Wherever you’re [...]
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