Category Archives: Personal computing
Business Information
Success in business is often based on complete and accurate information. Data can help you to make plans on what customers are out there, who they are and how much money they have that might be used to buy your … Continue reading
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Tagged business information, census data, quickfacts
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Help from Computer Experts
It’s almost impossible for any one person to know how to answer every question related to hardware, software, networks, servers, etc. As a result, we all need help in resolving some of the problems that inevitable arise over time. Where … Continue reading
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Tagged experts exchange, technical help, tek-tips
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Document Your Website
Like all good computer systems, a web site should be documents in order to help support and maintain the site. Simple screen prints of the web site don’t give you your site’s full information. As an example, you can see … Continue reading
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Tagged documentation, pdfmyurl, web site, web site documentation
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Keep Talking to Your Computer
A computer driver is a piece of software that allows hardware to work with operating systems and applications. Each driver is specific to the piece of hardware that it works with. Operating systems and application programs are constantly being updated … Continue reading
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Tagged driver maintenance, driverguide.com, drivers
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Useful Web Sites
The web is populated with millions of web sites. Many of them are commercial and many are very narrow in their focus. For the next few months, I am going to discuss a number of web sites that I have … Continue reading
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Free Storage with SkyDrive
File storage is rapidly expanding, both on local machines and in the cloud. One free service that is available now is SkyDrive from Microsoft. It is available at https://skydrive.live.com. SkyDrive is a cloud-based file storage service. It offers 25 GB … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud based file storage, file storage, skydrive, web file storage
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License and Registration, Please
If you have to re-install software on your PC, you need the license numbers and serial numbers of the software. If you have lost your original installation disks or neglected to write down the license information, what can you do? … Continue reading
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Tagged License Crawler, serial numbers, software, software license numbers
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Secure Your Personal Files
We are constantly putting more personal and financial information on our computers. In most cases such information is worth much more than the computer if your PC is stolen. Criminals are becoming more aware of this and using PC thefts … Continue reading
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Tagged data safety, files, lockbox, secure fies
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Keep Your Software Updated
No computer program is ever 100% static. Over time, errors or bugs in a program are fixed and/or new features are implemented. These changes take place in updates to the program. Most computers have dozens of programs installed on them, … Continue reading
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Tagged software updates, updatechecker, updates
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