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computers: Ah, new stuff - 08/11/10 09:34 PM
Ah, new stuff
I made a trip to Fry's Electronics this morning because two things were on sale that I've wanted for a couple of months now. That, of course, means that Zoey the Cool Cat will be occupied for the next couple of hours. The three boxes were on the bed for no more than ten seconds when she had to check them out, seeming to know from way out in the garage that there were new boxes somewhere in the house. The smell of those new boxes caused her to come a-runnin', tail way up in the air.

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computers: FREE Windows 2000, XP, and Vista programs for reducing the size of your pictures - 06/12/09 08:54 PM
As digital cameras keep increasing the resolution -- and size! -- of digital pictures, and as pictures become more and more an integral part of the lives of Realtors, home inspectors, and others, if they haven't already, we increasingly need a way to manage the size of the digital picture files taking up space on our computers. And we won't even talk about digital video and audio files.
PROBLEM: A few months ago I bought a new computer running Windows Vista. A few weeks ago we got a new digital SLR camera, a Canon Rebel XSi. On our old Windows XP … (15 comments)

computers: Make your computer speedier with Software Saturday - 11/14/08 08:04 PM

 
Along with each Friday being "Backup Friday" when I do my weekly backups, each Saturday is "Software Saturday."
Software Saturday is when I will try out new software, much of it downloadable for free off the Internet as trial versions. Unfortunately, the 80/20 rule applies when you download free software from the Internet:
80% of the software will be crippleware, malware, clunkware, slowware, or spyware, or have any other number of problems associated with it, sometimes causing my computer to crash or otherwise not having any sort of useful purpose that I can discern. 20% of the software is … (3 comments)

computers: Make every Friday "Backup Friday" - 09/26/08 05:49 PM

Many of my friends consider me lucky because I've only had one hard drive crash with my computers, and in that one I only lost about 10% of my data, none of it really critical to my operations.
I have my computer set to do automatic daily backups of just the new and changed files. On Friday, I have it set to do a ghost backup of my complete internal hard drive to an external hard drive.
Although hard drives are much more dependable than they were 20 years ago, and while you might think that a hard drive crash … (14 comments)