Archive for the ‘technerd’ Category
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Today I was asked about a link that someone received in an email. The link was to a video that appeared to be on Facebook. Because the appearance of the link seemed legitimate there was almost no suspicion drawn, until the user realized that they didn't know the sender ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
I have a Blackberry. I use it daily. Not only does it prove to be valuable for keeping in touch via email, texting, and instant messaging, but it's also excellent for playing games upon. Not all good games cost money, but since most of the better ones do I'll tell ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
I usually get asked general questions about computers where I work and today was no exception. I had recommended a small external hard disk drive about a year ago for backing up important data from his computer. Today (about a year later!) I was asked a follow up question... "can ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Have you ever been refused to open a file or make changes to a file? It might be related to some security features that are in Windows XP. This is something that rarely occurs, but when it happens to you the first time it might take you by surprise, so ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
I have an iPod Touch. Before family or friends or co-workers start to give me a hard time about it because I vowed not to buy one, I want to tell you that I didn't buy it. Well, I didn't buy it directly. Let me tell you about the iPod ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Google recently revamped or altered or changed its PageRank. Those that suffered from the change are blogging negatively about it. Those that didn't feel a change are probably blogging negatively about it. I got my first ranking for this domain name, so I like it! True, I only have a ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Recently at work we had a Vizio plasma TV installed in the lobby/entry area. The problems are 1) the Vizio plasma got burn-in after about 30 minutes of being on (ya, really); 2) HDMI cable wasn't readily available for the length required. Now I don't usually take pictures at work ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Ya, I'm still looking for the perfect cell phone. I'm thinking that this shouldn't be so difficult a process and I should just do what friends and co-workers do and just buy a phone and then get a new one in 3-6 months so it doesn't matter if you don't ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I received a visitor to my little blog, which I found to be actually somewhat of an Internet celebrity. Let me explain what an Internet celebrity is in comparison to a movie or TV celebrity. Movies: Bruce Willis, Matt Damon, Jim Carey, Julia Roberts, etc...; TV: James Woods, Alec Baldwin, Kaley Cuoco, ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I've been thinking of getting a new phone. Right now the decision is whether I should be getting something like the Nokia E70, AT&T 8525, Apple iPhone, or some HTC product. The truth is that there are so many different devices available that making a decision can be very easy ...
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