July 6th, 2010
Stop and think before you click “Send”
By Elena Murphy
Would you consider critical comments posted on your Facebook page the same as “trash-talking” your opponent before a basketball game? You know, nothing personal. That’s how one first-year male college student explained the practice of electronically posting or texting disparaging comments about other people, says Dr. Elizabeth Englander, professor of psychology at Bridgewater State College, who gave a presentation on cyberbullying to a full house of parents and school administrators earlier this month at Cary Hall. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, cyber bully, cyberbully, cyberbullying, email, englander, facebook, family, geek, internet, intimidation, kids, lexington, mean, myspace, online, parent, parenting, privacy, school, teen, threat, threaten, threatening, trash talk
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May 27th, 2010
There’s nothing like the thrill of lightning and thunder after a scorching summer day. Storm clouds gather, you feel the tension in the air and zzzzap! Kaboom! There goes your computer! ZZZAPPPO! So much for that expensive flatscreen TV… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: blackout, brownout, computer geek, computers, conditioning, electricity, electronics, geek, geek housecalls, home computer, insurance, lightning, lightning damage, lightning strike, power strip, protection, summer, surge, surge protector, surge strip, thunderstorm, uninterruptable power supply, ups
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May 19th, 2010
When talking to friends, the subject of geeky competition often comes up and I invariably get asked “How do you succeed against all those other geeks?” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: apple, computer network, computer repair, computer service, desktop, family, geek, geek experience, geek house calls, geek housecalls, geek jobs, geek service, home, home computer, home computer service, house call, housecall, housecalls, kids, laptop, mac, nerd, netbook, teen, wifi, Windows
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May 6th, 2010
Awesome double rainbow in the back yard 5/4/2010 - Photo by Andy Trask
Going somewhere? Take your digital camera with you, you never know what you could end up capturing - the awesome beauty of a spring rainbow, a cozy clutch of baby birds, the marvelous detail of a brilliant red mushroom. These are all things I’ve shot just by having my camera with me at the right moment. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 35mm, baby birds, bird, cam, camera, canon, digital camera, digital photo, family, family fun, film, fish, geek, geek housecalls, geekster, kodak, mushroom, nature, nature geek, nikon, outdoor geek, outdoors, photo, picture, polaroid, rainbow, shoot, shot, summer, take picture, video, webcam
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May 1st, 2010
A word of advice to parents of kids with mobile phones: Text!
This is probably old news to a lot of you, but if I can connect one text-shy parent with their kid, I’ll consider this post worthwile… Read the rest of this entry »
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April 21st, 2010
When I was a kid (during the last century), the sun would shine and my Mom would admonish all seven of us kids to “get out while the sun is shining,” and she wouldn’t tolerate “no” for an answer. She knew that climbing trees and playing baseball and even wading through the muddy shallows of the Ash Street Pond was better for us than sitting in front of the TV. And she was right. There wasn’t a one of us that ever had more than an ounce of unburned fat when we fell into bed at the end of the day. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: biking, cache, exercise, family, family activity, family fun, geek, geek housecalls, geocache, geocaching, geocoin, gps, hidden, hide, hiking, hunt, kids, outdoor fun, outdoors, phone, scavenger hunt, secret, stash, state park, travelbug, treasure, treasure hunt
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April 12th, 2010
Malicious software (Malware) is the #1 cause of computer trouble for home PC users. Here’s a brief tutorial on the subject… Read the rest of this entry »
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April 5th, 2010
After the success of our February recycling program discounts, we are extending the 50% savings offer through Earth Day, April 22nd. During February, the Geek Housecalls local computer service center in Burlington Massachusetts (www.geekservicecenter.com) announced a special offer that ran through Saint Patrick’s Day where computer equipment brought to the service center for recycling was discounted to 50% off of our regular recycling rates. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: arbor, arbor day, bedford, billerica, burlington computer service, burlington ma, burlington mass, burlington massachusetts, computer recycling, computer tower, crt, disposal, dispose, earth, earth day, electronic recycling, electronics recycling, flat screen, geek housecalls, geek service, geek service center, get rid of, go green, green, green offer, green savings, hard drive, keyboard, lexington, monitor, mouse, printer, recycle, recycle electronics, winchester, woburn
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March 8th, 2010
The Geek Housecalls Carry-In Computer Service Center has teamed up with other local vendors in selling raffle tickets to benefit the Haitian Relief Effort.
Three drawing winners will each win a pair of tickets to opening day, Sunday April 4 at 8PM, when the Boston Red Sox will play the New York Yankees. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: baseball, bedford, burlington, burlington ma, computer repair, computer service, doctors without borders, earthquake, geek, geek shop, haiti, haitian relief, lexington, local computer service, mlb, opening day, raffle, red sox, relief fund, service center, tickets, waltham, winchester, woburn, yankees
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February 20th, 2010
Some folks are waking up their MacBooks only to find an ominous grey screen with a flashing questionmark icon instead of their usual friendly desktop.
According to Mac expert Joe Riess from the Geek Housecalls Computer Service Center, this flashing questionmark-on-folder icon may indicate that the hard disk drive in your MacBook has failed. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: apple, apple repair, apple service, apple warranty, computer geek, computer geeks, data recovery, fail, geek, geek housecalls, geek service, geek service center, hard disk, hard drive, itunes, laptop, local computer service, lost address book, lost data, lost email, lost music, lost photos, lost pictures, mac, mac boot, mac repair, mac service, mac start up, mac won't start, macbook, macbook boot, macbook pro, macbook repair, macbook service, macbook startup, music library, notebook, osx, question mark, question mark folder, questionmark, questionmark folder, recall, won't start up
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