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Delete Your Facebook

By Mark on Sunday, May 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Today I deleted my Facebook account. Facebook really has a problem with privacy. It use to be the one thing great about it is that you could let only those people you know view information about you. That’s all over. Unless you edit multiple items in your privacy setting Facebook will share your information with [...]

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Beginner’s Podcasting

By Mark on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Seems like everyone is getting in on the podcasting act. Tom and Veronica go over the basics of the tools, services and things you need to do required for any successful podcast. Podcasting Audio Software. The stuff you need to record, edit and normalize your recorded audio. Audacity. Great free audio recorder and editor. Levelator. [...]

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Windows Maintenance Tips

By Mark on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 | No Comments

There is a lot of talk about Windows maintenance. What services should turn off? Which utilities should I use? To sleep or hibernate? Here’s a article from Lifehacker. It is the best article I have seen on the subject. Here are some of the topics which I agree… Using “Microsoft Security Essentials” is as good [...]

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One Is Not Good Enough

By Mark on Sunday, April 11th, 2010 | No Comments

I have a set I rules I follow when computing. The first three are backup, backup, and backup. This poor lady came to my computer users group with a external harddrive that was not functioning. I took a look at it. When I plugged it in to the power it started click loudly. I plugged [...]

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Speed Up Ubuntu

By Mark on Monday, March 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

There are several programs that may start up when your Ubuntu computer starts. Many of these programs are not needed. You can turn these off by going to “System, Preferences and Startup Applications”. You can turn off some of these but first you must know which applications do not have to start up so I [...]

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New Windows Tip

By Mark on Saturday, March 13th, 2010 | No Comments

This is a tip from Paul Thurrott‘s Supersite for Windows. You may know the keyboard shortcut for Internet Explorer start fullscreen mode is F11. What you don’t know is the same shortcut works in for Windows Explorer and other applications.  Many other shortcuts work as well. I’ll let Paul tell you more about it.

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LastPass

By Mark on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | No Comments

I’m always saying use good passwords. Use upper and lower case letters and numbers. I do all of this but one has to have an algorithm to remember ones passwords. The problem is in order to use the password algorithm it has to be easy. Something you can do in your head. My algorithm is [...]

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Shields Up

By Mark on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Are you secure on the net? May you are! Maybe you aren’t! The Internet is always being monitored by hackers, bots and other things looking for computers that have open ports that can be attacked. ShieldsUP is a site from the security and harddrive expert Steve Gibson at GRC.Com. ShieldsUp scans your computer to see [...]

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Upgrading Ubuntu

By Mark on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | No Comments

I was discussing last night with someone about upgrading Ubuntu to a new version. I said I did not know much about it because I was alway trying new distros and I never keep a version long enough to upgrade. I also said I thought it was very simple. Just a few clicks and that [...]

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Photo Repair

By Mark on Monday, September 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Here is a recently restored photo that I have been working on. A lot of what was wrong with this photo was not fixed by Photoshop. It was very stained and very dirty. I had to remove the dirt covering the picture first. If you Google cleaning photos it will tell you much better techniques [...]

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