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The Lastpast You’ll Ever Need

By Mark on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 | 1 Comment

For the last six months I’ve been using Lastpass a password manager that is truely extraordinary. Lastpass is easy and safe. Lastpass is everywhere you are. It works on PCs, Macs, Linux and other operating system. It works with Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome and nearly any other web-browser. Adroid phones, iPhones iOS, Blackberry and [...]

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Add URL Shortener To Google Maps

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

It’s no long necessary to use a third party URL shortener because Google Maps has its own.

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Mount Skydrive As A Network Drive

By Mark on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 | No Comments

I really like Skydrive Explorer. It creates a virtual folder so you can drag files into it but if you wished to use Skydrive to backup data automatically you are out of luck. Here’s a method to mount Skydrive as an actual network drive. It requires what I can only call a kluge. It requires [...]

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Me Want Drobo

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

My first three rules of computing are backup, backup and backup. You may have  heard this before? I use Carbonite a cloud backup solution that works very well but I really should have a local backup as well. 321 Backup Drobo looks like a great solution. Drobo is an external hardive based storage device that [...]

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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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Personal Software Inspector

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

The Personsl Software Inspector by Secunia will check to see if you have critical software out of date and will prompt you to install the new version. I have a very up to date system but I install  Secunia PSI and ran it. After a couple of minutes it found that my Skype
had a

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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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Gmail Tip

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

The email from all of my account goes to Gmail so I have to go to different sites or open and email program. I go to Gmail and it’s all there.  See Lifehacker. But that’s not the tip! Google does not check your POP account frequently so you may have your Gmail open but your [...]

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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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