Archive for February, 2010
Saturday, 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. (more…)
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
If you are reading this article because your phone just got wet, DON’T WAIT! Remove the battery from your wet phone now! Then read on…
Every day, people experience the horror of cell-phone dousing - when their mobile phone takes an unexpected plunge into anything from swimming pool to soup bowl to toilet bowl (yes, gross, but possibly the most common as mobile phones seem to have a special knack for slipping out of your pocket while dressing/undressing). This post offers advice for how to recover and possibly save your phone when the unexpected happens. (more…)
Tags: bath, bathroom, beach, blackberry, cell phone, dropped in, dropped my cell phone, dropped my mobile phone, dropped my phone, fell in, fell into, got wet, iphone, kitchen, laundry, mobile phone, phone, phone dropped in, pool, shower, sink, smart phone, spill, spilled, swimming, toilet, tub, washing machine, water, wet, wireless phone
Posted in a helping hand, By us, Good Advice | 5 Comments »
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Okay, so my vintage 2004 laptop was having some serious cpu cooling problems and failing badly. I thought about refurbing it, but in the end decided it was time to bite the bullet and upgrade to current technology.
The big question for me at that point became: ”do I go with tried and true winXP, or do I entrust all of my web development, email, blogging, and other work from home as well as personal and social computing to the new kid on the block?” (more…)
Tags: acer, email, email accounts, email client, install, laptop, new computer, new laptop, new windows, printer, recommend, touchpad, win xp or win 7, win7, windows 7, windows live mail, Windows XP, WinXP
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