So it’s coming close to the DTV switch occurring on February 17th 2009 at midnight and I wanted to take a minute and explain exactly what’s going to happen. As of right now, all full power television stations are providing their service over the air as an analog signal and through cable companies as a digital [...]

In my spare time (which I have a lot of thanks to my recent lay off) I fix computers for regular users.  Every now and then I come across someone’s PC that has decent virus and spyware protection on it and I let out a little sigh of relief.  But for every computer I see [...]

When you get a new computer that has Microsoft Windows installed you can safely assume that previous features will be included with your current system. If you get a computer that has a newer version of the operating system on it such as Windows Vista you might wonder what has changed and what is [...]

After being laid off a few weeks ago I found a good reason to go out and get a printer so I can finally print out my resume and give it out at interviews ( should there be any) and I was absolutely taken back by the outright blasphemy of the prices of printer cables.  [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week or so, you’ve probably seen Michael Phelps set an Olympic record for 8 consecutive Gold medals won by a single Olympian.  Phelps is one of the greatest Olympic swimmers of all time and he recently modeled Speedo’s new LZR Racer swimsuit and I wanted [...]

There are many things that can ruin something you are working on while sitting at your computer.  Maybe it’s a presentation that you are creating for your boss at work, or the new website layout you’re designing in photoshop, or even just a letter that you are writing to someone and if any one of [...]

After owning a computer for a certain amount of time, you’ll start to acquire quite a list of programs that feel the need to wedge themselves into your startup folder, which in turn can make your computer’s start time slower.  There are a few ways of stopping programs from running immediately when windows starts up.  [...]

Have you noticed that your PC isn’t running as fast as it used to?  There are many reasons as to why it might be running slow and the one that goes unnoticed the most is your registry.  The registry is a section of your pc where certain program settings are stored and it should only [...]