The other day I had a great argument with one of my sons about his laptop.
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July 25, 2011Why Don’t You Know These Things!July 22, 2011My Third New Book of the YearFirst came Samsung Galaxy Tab For Dummies. Then the Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-In-One For Dummies. Now: HTC ThunderBolt For Dummies. And the year ain’t over yet!
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July 20, 2011“Your computer appears to be infected”That yellow warning atop the Google search page is real. Pay heed to it. Seeing the warning means that your computer is infected with a virus, one that redirects your Google searches through a proxy server. That means the results you see are tainted, often leading to other sites that further cause you woe. Be careful out there!
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Not So Dead, After AllLast blog post, I spoke about the dead MyBook external drive on my PC. Turns out it’s not so dead, after all.
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July 18, 2011An External Backup Drive That Pleases MeBrace yourself: I’ve found a product that I really, really like. July 17, 2011Sticking it to VerizonWhen she inquired about a $4.19 charge on her bill, a Verizon customer was told to hire a lawyer and get a subpoena to discover what the charge was about. This episode ends well.
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July 15, 2011Some Common Sense for Hotmail PasswordsIs your Hotmail password Trying to Figure Out Google+Google has dived into the social networking arena with their offering of Google+. July 13, 2011The Whole ‘Delete From Server’ ThingYou have a phone. You have a computer. You have email. So how can you best coordinate your email between your phone and your computer without having to keep reading the same messages over and over?
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July 12, 2011BYTE Magazine Returns (Sorta)The grandaddy of them all, BYTE magazine has made a return to the world — the digital world. Once upon a time, back when computer users were hobbyists and magazines were the way they learned about new stuff, BYTE was the king. There were other magazines as well, lots of them. Most of the magazines were specific to your computer: PC World, PC Computing, PC Magazine for the PC; Nibble, InCider, SoftTalk for the Apple II; MacWorld and MacUser for the Macintosh; Compute! for just about everything else. There were also computer news magazines like InfoWorld, nerd-specific magazines like Dr. Dobb’s Journal. Oh, and some magazines like Computer Shopper that occasionally were as thick as a phone book. I’m not kidding. Anyway. BYTE is supposedly back.
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