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There is nothing worse than computer problems, and there’s nothing better than free software to prevent them in the first place. One of my favorite utilities of all time has just updated to their 2008 version, and the company owner has provided me with an affiliate version that I can give away at no charge. |
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How many add-ons, toolbars, bookmarks, plugins, and other tweaks have you made to your default Firefox installation? If you’re a specialty user, you may have several dozen add ons, and in my own case, I’ve got 27 separate Firefox extensions alone, (which I now know because I just counted them). |
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I’m a board member of the Oregon Computer Consultants Association and at each monthly meeting, there’s a few minutes where people ask questions about strange behavior, and get help from their peers. Well, the meeting was last night (Ben Lee from Intel) , and I had nothing to ask, but TODAY is another matter. The following message just went out to the entire group - |
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Qwest Internet service here in Portland Oregon has apparently begun to randomly block port 25 for its customers, just like Comcast did last year. This renders users helpless to send email using their own domain from their web host’s email server like most businesses do. |
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Last night I was working ofn a few things on my wifes laptop while we were watching a TV show, and like always, I didn’t “put everything away” and I left a Notepad document open with a few notes, and a few browser windows. This morning when I got up, I went to the laptop to “get my stuff” and found that Microsoft had seized control overnight and rebooted my computer. |
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After reformatting my computer, I posted about easily editing the “save attachment as” dialog box to enable me to save Outlook file attachments in the folders of my choice. |
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In previous versions of MS Office, it was possible to modify your “save attachment as” dialog box with folders that you prefer, but in Office 2007, that option appeared to be gone thanks to this blog post I now know how to do it in the current version of Office. |
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I just got done smacking myself in the head lamenting all the time I’ve wasted since this thing came out in September 2006. How often do you have to open multiple browser windows? Do you go through the process of opening “site a”, “page b”, “site c”, “page d” etc. very often? Well I do. |
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Yesterday I was at a meeting using my laptop on a very slow internet connection. During a break, I checked my e-mail, and someone had sent me some giant pictures as file attachments, which paralyzed my computer. The message was so large that it wouldn’t complete, and therefore I couldn’t get any of my other mail that was behind it, either, which was frustrating. |
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Someone just sent me an email about a search engine article I wrote in 1998. It was a short article where I tried to explain what a search engine was, and how to use one. Funny enough, their question was similar to the one that sparked the original article. |
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I rarely reboot my PC and leave it run 24/7. It seems like whenever I can tell need a reboot, I’m too busy to take the time. I have 4 gigs of ram on a dual core Intel CPU, but I have literally dozens of tasks or windows open at any given time. |
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As a computer consultant, my clients often used to ask me what hardware to buy. Since I was in the PC business until 2003, I’ve always had good technical knowledge about what to buy. Now that I focus on search, i’m not as up to date on the latest hardware. |
