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Backup Lessons Learned
August 30th, 2006 |Back online at my main PC. Still shaky from the whole experience. What we had to do (Paul is my hero) is repair Windows. In doing so (thanks to Scotty), we learned that Netscape and Firefox hijacked some of the DLL files. Why is this happening? We also learned that SyncToy and Carbonite don’t like each [...]
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Backup Test Time
August 29th, 2006 |Looks like the hard drive died. I don’t know what happened as when I got on the computer, the login screen appeared in low-resolution. After fiddling with it and watching the PC freeze — I had no choice but to turn it off. What’s really annoying is that my network hard drive was off for the [...]
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Weird Computer Slowdown Problem
June 18th, 2006 |This problem comes and goes. When it comes, however, the problem happens a few times a day. I can’t find the pattern except maybe Internet Explorer. The programs slow to a crawl and I close each one as soon as the PC lets me. I tried to find the Microsoft Knowledgebase (kb) article that sounded [...]
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Firefly Mobile Phone for Kids Review
October 21st, 2005 |The target market for this phone is kids ages 8 to 12, although I recommend it more for the younger half of the group. 6 and 7-year-olds might be able to use it depending on the child. We know how kids are reckless about making and receiving too many phone calls. Firefly lets parents control who [...]
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Keyboard and Mice Talkback
February 22nd, 2005 |My cordless keyboard is dying a slow death (Actually, it died. I plugged it back in to try something and it would not spill out any letters or numbers.). I changed the batteries and everything… reset the keyboard and its charging base. The keyboard still tunes in and out as its pleases causing me t [...]
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Nite Key Lite
August 16th, 2004 |I always go to sleep before Paul does and he stays up watching TV and computes on his laptop. I’m sensitive to light, so I have creative ways to ensuring the light doesn’t bother me while I’m trying to fall asleep. Along comes the Nite Key Lite to make things a little easier. The light plugs [...]
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