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150″ Flat Screen TV for Under $700!

Rick and Adam each use a multimedia projector for watching movies, sports and playing video games. You can get a great projector online or at your local big box stores for well under $1000. Often you can find a sale or closeout model for under $700! Projectors aren’t designed to be used as your primary television set, buy they are perfect for evening films, sports, computer presentations and especially video games....

Castellini on Computers Podcast with Rick & A...

We had more fun this week and Adam let the mics stay open during our pre-show…yikes! Answered some tech questions, talked auctions, Hot for Words, Amazon Kindle, and much more. Let us know what you think. Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Castellini on Computers Podcast with Rick & A...

Today, Adam and I embarked on another chapter in our long and illustrious audio career that spans more than a decade now of radio. podcasting, and video casting. As always, our quest is to share information about technology while having fun doing so and providing some helpful and useful information along the way. In today’s episode, we talked about the latest Apple press conference, the Android operating systems for...

Printer Installations Continue to Grow

It really shouldn’t take 15 minutes and more to install a new printer…especially on a new computer! This kind of time commitment is becoming all too frequent lately from all manufacturers, but HP seems to be the worst. If you want to save time on your printer install and prevent your computer from becoming lethargic afterwards, try these small tips the next time you install a new printer. Uninstall all previous...

Longest hiatus is over

Image via Wikipedia Due to many circumstances, busy scheduling, and a couple of short trips, I have been noticeably absent from posting new articles here at HelpMeRick.com the last few months.  Thanks for continuing to search for and use the information found within these virtual walls to help make your computer life just a little easier. During these past few weeks, I have helped many, many people with their...

You DO NOT have to download CA from Bresnan

Many of my customers received the email pictured below, and didn’t fully read the email. Although, poorly worded and written in an alarmist way, it does say “Your current free version…“. Insinuating that if you are currently using their free and extremely slow security product, then you do need to update. However, I do not recommend that Bresnan customers use this security software as I’ve found...

Computer Help Show Podcast – 08-18-10

We had exactly zero phone calls this month, yet I think this is one of the best shows we’ve done in quite awhile. We discussed back-to-school, saving money on school text books using some web savvy, digital books and e-readers, computer security (yes, again), mobile technology and much more. Have a listen!! Next month (Wednesday, September 15), we will be live from Noon-1pm Mountain time locally at 88.1 FM or you can...

Why are Facebook games easier than general compute...

Twice in the past week I came across clients who consider themselves computer illiterate (I abhor this phrase, but that’s a whole different issue.yet could operate Facebook games like a professional gamer.  The two folks (one woman, one man and both well over 70) have difficulty understanding how email operates in terms of servers, providers, etc, have not learned how to copy and paste, think that Google is THE...

Downsizing my tech

I repurposed my EeePC Netbook for my nephew with a copy of Qimo Linux for kids and it works great. Not only does my nephew now have a computer that is secure & virtually trouble-free, but it also comes packed with great learning resources & games. It also allowed me to reduce my computers by one. I now carry my Toshiba 13″ laptop that dual boots Ubuntu & Windows 7. The change required me to get a new laptop...

Print only what you want – Multi-tip

How many times do you curse at your printer when you print a joke from email or some web page information and get two or more extra sheets of paper with useless information? Follow this tip and experience printing bliss from email or Internet and your word processor too! On the web, Select the text (by clicking and dragging with your mouse) that you would like to print Click File and Print from the menus (don’t click...