by Scott | Apr 29, 2008 | Computers - How to, Spyware, Tools, Viruses and Scams
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, Winpatrol, has just updated to their 2008 version, and the company owner has provided me...
by Scott | Mar 28, 2008 | Computers - How to, Productivity
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...
by Scott | Mar 26, 2008 | Computers - How to
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) ,...
by Scott | Mar 20, 2008 | Computers - How to, Local news, Web Hosting
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...
by Scott | Mar 13, 2008 | Computers - How to, Microsoft, Productivity
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,...
by Scott | Mar 3, 2008 | Computers - How to, Productivity
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. That was a big help, but only solved half the problem, because without installing...
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