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Doing Your Xbox 360 Repair In Less Than An Hour And Its Benefits

Doing Your Xbox 360 Repair In Less Than An Hour And Its Benefits

If you are a lover of XBox 360 games then you will eventually see the dreaded situation when an xbox 360 repair will be needed.  The failure rates on these consoles are unfortunately predictably high and multipled significantly if you didn’t purchase one of those optional cooling fans that plug onto the back of the console from [...]

Working With the Cartoon People

Working With the Cartoon People

Raising kids with their own laptops has been a new kind of challenge.  I have had to deal with the problem of them staying on the computer far too long and even getting up in the middle of the night to visit YouTube or IM their friends.  This is not a unique problem these days. [...]

There has to be Something that Can be Done About Spyware!

There has to be Something that Can be Done About Spyware!

Anyone who has been on the interent for any length of time is aware of some of the dangers that lurk in cyberspace.  The kind of malicious software that gets the most attention are viruses and other destructive internet attacks.  These kinds of invasions over your internet modem can destroy your computer or seriously hinder [...]

Registry Cleaning & PC Speed-Up

Registry Cleaning & PC Speed-Up

When your computer starts acting up, it is something to worry about because you don’t know if there is something fundamentally wrong with it or if it is something easy to fix.  What not many people know is that a computer that is acting up may not be showing any signs of a serious problem [...]

Help!  My iPad is Keeping Me Awake!

Help! My iPad is Keeping Me Awake!

There is no way to ignore the tremendous popularity that the Apple iPad has achieved in a very short time on the market.  The week the iPad was launched, the excitement that people showed was equivalent to the coming of a rock star to town or the launch of a hugely anticipated new movie.  Of [...]

Google and Verizon Hope Their Entry into the Pad Wars Isn’t Too Little Too Late

Google and Verizon Hope Their Entry into the Pad Wars Isn’t Too Little Too Late

The iPad Took the mobile computing market by storm in the last few months.  So it stands to reason that there are plenty of big internet and mobile communications companies that want a piece of the pie.  The announcement that Google and Verizon were working on their own version of a pad style technology should [...]

Firewalls

Firewalls

Protecting the data on any computer is extremely important. When you use the internet regularly, the diversity of malicious communications that can come your way is amazing.  Some online threats can come through emails in the form of attachments.  It is important to have tools in place to filter attachments in emails that could contain [...]

Can We Live in a World Where PCs and Smartphones Can be Friends?

Can We Live in a World Where PCs and Smartphones Can be Friends?

Some people feel that the PC is threatened in existence by smartphones. Therefore some people get stuck in the past and they don’t want to accept the phones as part of the advances in technology. On the other side of the coin are people who become such diehards for smartphone technology that they reject the [...]

All is Not Lost when You Have Lost All Your Data

All is Not Lost when You Have Lost All Your Data

There are few experiences in life that are disturbing as a computer crash. You get used to your computer being reliable and always ready to take you to your favorite internet sites.  You no doubt have hundreds if not thousands of documents, reports, music, video and other files on your computer that would be devastating [...]

As If HDTV Wasn’t Enough, Now They Want You to Buy a 3D TV

As If HDTV Wasn’t Enough, Now They Want You to Buy a 3D TV

In a conversation with a friend about the ongoing sophistication of television, he once remarked to me, “It won’t belong before all TV will be done with holograms so the characters will be right in your living room interacting with your family.”