Archive for the ‘Computer Troubleshooting’ Category

MSNBC Email Virus

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Major spammers followed up last week's new spam campaign focusing on a fake CNN.com email with a new version of a fake MSNBC.com email.  The email, which looks like it comes to you from MSNBC with a breaking news headline, is a fake.   The email asks the receiver to go to what looks like the true ...

Rush Limbaugh kicking printers

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Today 8/15/2008 on the Rush Limbaugh radio program, Rush started early in his show talking about having printer problems with a couple of his printers at his home and at his office.  Rush said he just could not get things to print they way he wanted.  He says later in the show ahead ...

CNN.com Virus Spam

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

A new email campaign was launched by spammers last week.  Reports say already in this short time over 250 million spam emails have been sent out.  It arrives with the indication that CNN.com is sending out "CNN Alerts" and that it is providing a "Daily Top 10".  It looks quite ...

Online/Offline Software Applications

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I have been hearing about software that is called online and offline.  Can you provide some simple insight into what these descriptions mean and how it might affect me? No matter what the software, it had to be created through programming.  The online and offline terms usually refers to a difference in ...

Cannot Receive Emails

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

I just had a weird thing happen regarding my email.  I am using Microsoft Outlook 2007 and running Vista Business.  I am connected to the Internet via Qwest DSL and I use 1and1 as my email provider.  I was working in my office and sending and receiving a number of ...

Hot Keyboard video

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

iNeedTech.com productions has just released one of its Fun Tech Videos titled:  Smokey to the Rescue:  Dave's Hot Keyboard.  The videos take a new perspective on how to handle some typical computer problems with PC parts such as keyboard, pc mouse, printer, CD/DVD drive, monitor, laptop and more.  This one shows a ...

IPv4 versus IPv6

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Is there a new version of Internet addressing coming our way soon? Yes there are some changes on the horizon for the way Internet addresses are assigned.  Currently you are probably familiar with the IP address on the network which is called IPv4 and that is expressed as four octets in "dotted ...

Passwords

Monday, April 21st, 2008

My Uncle uses the same password for everything.  This doesn't sound like a good idea.  Any thoughts on this subject? Actually there have been some recent comments by researchers that many people are just like your Uncle in that they use the same password over and over again for a number ...

Red Eye Reduction

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

I often see photos where the people have red eyes.  Is there a way to get rid of this problem? Yes, there are a couple of approaches you can take for this problem.  First let's take a brief look at what causes the red eye effect in people.  It is usually caused ...

OLED Screen

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I heard that Sony is coming out with a new type of screen for TV's called an OLED and it is very thin.  What is it and will we ever see it for our computers? OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode.  It converts energy into light and consumes very little ...