December 5th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Mobile Tips
Christmas is right around the corner and we’re going to help you find the best tech gadgets currently on the market so you can be showered with praise when someone gets one as a gift! Everybody can use a smartphone, especially the people who don’t want to give up their own flip phones from 10 [...]
December 1st, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts
When it comes to finding great tutorial blogs related to technology, there just aren’t that many. There are literally millions of tech blogs, but frankly, most of them suck. I’ve been blogging about technology for over 4 years now and the landscape has changed dramatically. Earlier you had sites churning out hundreds of tutorials a [...]
November 30th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts
Christmas is right around the corner and that means a lot of people will be spending time with their family. Those of us who know anything about computers know what that means: questions about slow computers, bad wireless networks, crashed hard drives, etc. If you are one of the lucky ones whose family PC is [...]
November 14th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Networking
I recently bought a Brother wireless printer and I have to say that it’s really nice being able to print from my laptop while sitting outside on the front porch. No cables, no being forced to keep my computer in once place, etc. It’s super convenient. That is if your wireless printer works like it [...]
November 11th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Office Tips
In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps to get Gmail setup in Outlook 2010. I will also talk about how to get it to work if you have 2-step verification enabled on your Gmail account. Overall, it’s not a very complicated procedure, but it still helps to explain it sometimes. The first thing [...]
November 10th, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: Featured Posts, How-To
For many computer users, the choice between using a desktop email client and a web client (such as Gmail, Windows Live Mail, or Yahoo Mail), comes down to whether the user wants offline email access or not. With a desktop client (such as Thunderbird, Apple’s Mail client or Outlook), even if the user’s Internet connection [...]
November 4th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Featured Posts, How-To
Have you experienced a situation where you have to add a computer to your wireless network and you can’t find the network security key? Windows 7, like previous versions of Windows, remembers (with your permission) the network security key when you first connect to a secured wireless (Wi-Fi) network protected by WEP, WPA, or WPA2. [...]
November 2nd, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: Featured Posts, Linux Tips
There have been many changes made to the last couple of Ubuntu releases. Among them is that LightDM is now the new login manager. While the login screen is pretty nice, many users might want a way to customize it with their own wallpaper. Thanks to Claudio Novais, a new utility, called Simple LightDM Manager, [...]
October 24th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Windows 7
The latest service pack for Windows 7 is SP1, which was released a while back. Service Pack 2 will be coming sometime next year, but in the meantime, you might run into some issues installing SP1 on your system. Personally, the first time I updated my Windows 7 machine to SP1, it worked just fine. [...]
October 19th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Help Desk
I recently ran into a problem where my DVD drive on Windows 7 was missing from the list of devices in My Computer. It was there earlier, but simply disappeared! After doing some research, I found a couple of solutions that worked. Unfortunately, the solutions are different depending on which OS you are running: XP, [...]
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