With the end of a school and me helping my son with a film project, I haven’t had much time to write lately, but look for some new tips and news coming soon! In the interim, be sure to peruse the site for great tips and information that is already here! Thanks for your patience and thanks for visiting.
Two folks paid for their questions to be featured first this week; Ken and Marie. For a buck, they leap frogged 6 & 8 spots respectively. In addition to Marie and Ken, questions this week came from David, Leo, Carl, Karen, Greg, Kenzie, John, Romero, and Sonja. Their questions were about IE 8 upgrade problems, startup errors with Windows XP,… Read More »Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 046
More and more news stories are cropping up regarding this up and coming search engine. In fact, some feel it might challenge Google’s dominance. I will study up on it more, give it a whirl and report back. Have you used WolframAlpha? If so, leave a comment and tell me what you that out of it. Wolfram|Alpha.
This week’s questions are brought to you by Randy, Ivan, Terry, Kathy, Charles, Chuck, Mark, Edward, Dwight, Art, Don, Tom, Jim and David. They asked questions about IE 8 vs. IE 7, minimizing programs, broadband prices, lost passwords, Antivirus 2009 removal, video archiving, jumpy taskbar, high speed wireless, search engine hijacker, and upgrading RAM on a laptop. Have a look:
Twitter news stories occur almost daily these days. Do you know what Twitter is? Do you use Twitter? Do you understand Twitter?
I didn’t…initially, but now I have grown to really enjoy and benefit from the service. I ran across this short video today from Common Craft which explains Twitter in an easy to understand format. Have a look at the video and thenRead More »Easy to understand explanation of Twitter
PPS files are PowerPoint presentation slide shows that have been saved as a file that can be viewed by anyone. If you get a PPS file and can’t see the slideshow, then click here for our tip on where to find the free PowerPoint viewer.
Once you get the viewer, however, some people still can’t see the slideshows without first saving the attachment to the desktop then double-clicking it from there. It works, but requires a few more steps. Today, I had a call from a customer who was in this situation and really wanted to avoid having to first save the attachment, close email, look for the file and then double-click it to view the slideshow.
Windows Vista was hammered from its beta versions all the way through to its release and even to this day for lack of compatibility with hardware and software. Today, Microsoft announced that more than 10,000 hardware and software vendors are working with Microsoft during the development phase of Windows 7 to help assure a quality launch of Windows 7 later… Read More »Microsoft Promises greater compatibility with Windows 7
I stumbled on this fantastic web site the other day and wanted to share it with you. Tons of great tips for digital photographers of all abilities. Check it out! Digital Photography School – Digital Photography Tips for You.
I had the opportunity today to install both Windows 7 RC 1 and Ubuntu 9.04 on my Toshiba laptop today. The laptop has an Intel Core2Duo processor, 4 GB of RAM and 160 GB hard drive. Here are the results: Windows 7 RC1 Ubuntu 9.04 Install time 21 minutes including 2 reboots 19 minutes no reboots Boot time 54 seconds… Read More »Comparison of Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 9.04 install
Questions this week from Brenda, Patrick, Papa, John, Bruce, Lawrence, Dick, Amy, John, Mal, Howard, Ted and Jose are in the first video and pertain to saving email to CD, FoxIt Online Services, Windows Recorder problems, computer shut down problem, forwarding clean email in Thunderbird, sharing videos online, AVG 8.5 upgrade questions, troubleshooting a new sound card, Ubuntu firewall, desktop… Read More »Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 043