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Rick’s Answers his email Videocast – 029

This week’s email video brought to you by questions from Papa, Amy, Diana, Dan, Firat, Paul, John, Tina, Ernie, Sheila, Dave, Lisa, Bob, Shirley, and Iris. Their questions ranged from wanting to start a fan club to moving to Ubuntu and from nasty virus infections to how to install a DVD and much more!

Rick’s Answers his email Videocast – 028

Tons of Q&A this week covering a myriad of different topics…brought to you by: Don, Laura, Ron, Pete, Anthony, Donna, Jose, Marina, Ken, Corinne, Emily, Sharon, Elmer, Marilyn, Barbara, Joyce, Judith, Hank and Robert.

Rick answers his email Videocast – 027

A great question this week about how to fill out a paper form using your computer. Many other good questions as well including my answer to a writer who downloaded an illegal copy of Photoshop. This week, the Videocast is brought to you by questions from: Terry, Fern, Marcia, Sudarshin, Richard, Gayle, Kim, Bernie, Bill, Azumah, Jack, and Mike.

Rick’s Answers his email Videocast – 026

Twenty questions and answers in this week’s videocast. Questions this week brought to you buy the number 2009 and Bill, Naomi, Rod, Rex, Craig, Jerry, Richard, Dolores, Denise, Shirley, Rita, Betty, Ralph, Merrill, Jerry, Bill, Carole and Bonnie.

Don’t buy a new computer yet

2009 is upon us and computer prices are incredibly low, but if you can wait a year to buy a new computer, I would highly recommend it. Why? Microsoft plans on releasing the next version of Windows either late in 2009 or early in 2010. All indications point to the earlier release since Microsoft is anxious to bury Vista.

Rick’s Answers his email Videocast – 025

Questions this week ranged from anti-spyware recommendations all the to a strange singing Christmas card that played even after the computer was shut down. This week’s questions brought to you by Dave, Kristina, USSRover, AmaLia, Dave, Mary, Jessica, Bob, Mike, Gloria, and Kent.

Thwarted by online poker

Today marked my second Linux/Ubuntu casualty in almost 2 dozen attempts. As I’ve learned more about Ubuntu the past couple of years, I carefully selected clients who would have little problems dealing with a non-Microsoft operating system.

You may have read my take on Ubuntu usage for the average computer user before, but here it is again to setup the rest of the story: I believe that any computer users who uses only email, word processing, Internet, digital photography, and maybe a solitaire or mahjong like game can function perfectly and happily in Ubuntu. Those who need proprietary Windows programs or like to buy and try out different types of software will not do well with Ubuntu.

Rick’s Answers his email Videocast – 024

Brought to you by Harlene, Kristina, Sage, Herb, Crystal, Marion, Mariane, Donna, Dona, Chris, Barbara, and Rosie this week’s edition includes some AVG questions and frustrations, Macintosh advice, Microsoft Office 2007 problems, and of course much more!

What do you really do with your computer?

In my travels, it seems that most home computer users primarily use email. I would love to see 100-200 comments attached to this short article so you can tell me what you use your computer for from day-to-day. You don’t have to be statistically accurate or detailed, I’m just curious and this topic is too broad and detailed for a poll.

Here’s how I use my main computer:

Internet (web browsing, pay bills, web site maintenance, etc) – 60%
Email – 15%
Instructional videos – 10%
Word Processing – 8%
Desktop publishing (creating newsletters, flyers, calendars, etc) – 2%
Skype video calls – 1%
Digital Photography (including ordering, editing, and downloading photos) – 1%
Games – .33%
Other – 2.67%

YOUR TURN! Leave a comment and share what you use your primary computer for on average. Thanks!

Rick’s Answers his email Videocast – 023

Wow, lots of laptop questions ranging from heat problems, to college student recommendations, installing Flash player and much more. A jam packed edition this week with questions brought to you by: Marcia, Brian, Kristina, Theola, Larry, Phil, Gloria, Pat, Charles, Ron, Jonny, Helen, Tom, Steve, David, and Jean! Take a look!