Tagged: computer tips

Something Seems to Be Going On … Be Sure to Maintain Your PC

Posted on March 28th, 2009 by Urbain

Windows users may be experiencing slow computers right now.  I am not sure what is causing this.
In my case, my computer itself has not been slow but web pages are unusually slow to load on the Internet.  I have a Gateway and the “Big Fix” that came with the computer is constantly saying there is [...]

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Grossed Out By Your Keyboard?

Posted on March 18th, 2009 by Urbain

It’s amazing how yucky your keyboard can get in just a few short days.  I keep a constant supply of “air in a can” around to keep it clean.
When I visit some offices to fix computers, I’m sometimes appalled at how nasty some keyboards have become.  There’s goop spilled on them; chunks of food embedded [...]

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Exporting Excel Data to Text Formats

Posted on March 12th, 2009 by Urbain

There are a number of ways that you can create an online database. Some of these work with mySQL. For example, Wordpress blogs store their posts, users and other data on a mySQL database that is connected with PHP.
Other online databases will work with text files. Typically, these run with CGI programs [...]

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Computer Tips for ‘Regular People’ – How to Change File Names When Organizing Your Computer

Posted on December 24th, 2008 by Urbain

Yesterday, we took a look at how to organize your computer by moving files to folders.
If you are cleaning up your computer’s contents and want your document titles to be more meaningful so that you know at a glance what they are about without having to open them, updating your file names is a good [...]

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Computer Tips for ‘Regular People’ – How to Organize Your Computer

Posted on December 23rd, 2008 by Urbain

It’s easy to do. We’re all guilty of it.
For weeks, that quickly turn into months, that somehow turn into a year or two, you’ve been downloading stuff with abandon.  Or maybe you’ve been saving your important correspondence with the default provided in your word processing program. Now that some time has passed, you [...]

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Computer Tips for ‘Regular People’ – How to Check Computer Specs

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 by Urbain

Imagine:

Your standard Dell or Gateway computer crashes and you contact the support number, only to get asked a bunch of questions about your computer’s hardware and memory configurations that you don’t know how to answer.

You have an IBM compatible system that your late Uncle George built for you and the sound and video doesn’t seem [...]

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Computer Tips for ‘Regular People’ — My Programs Keep Crashing!

Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Urbain

You have a 5:00 deadline and it’s 4:15.  Your fingers fly across the keyboard as you add the final touches to your report …
… and then …
… your program crashes.
There’s nothing more frustrating than having a software program crash in the middle of a project.  For some reason, it seems like the crash tends to [...]

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How to Convert a .MOV File to .AVI

Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Urbain

You’ve captured some great video clips but want to edit parts of your movie without paying for a video editing program.  The good news is that if you have a Windows operating system, Windows XP and Vista come with a free movie editing software called “Windows Movie Maker.”  Here’s your problem:  Your digital movie camera’s [...]

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Computer Tips for ‘Regular People’ – A Quick PC Fix

Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Urbain

This morning I fixed a friend’s personal computer.  After her husband downloaded some software, strange error messages started coming up, the pc was making awful sounds, and the sound would not work properly.  If you are faced with similar problems, here’s a three-step process to follow that might repair your system quickly and easily so [...]

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Computer Tips for ‘Regular People’ – Another Look at Hard Drive Space

Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Urbain

Creating additional space on your computer’s hard drive can be a challenge.  So far, we’ve talked about how you can compress your files to create additional Drive C storage space and has also looked at external storage devices that will free up your hard drive.  I personally love the external portable storage units — they’ve [...]

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