March 25th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
So here’s an annoying problem I was having recently: I enabled home sharing in iTunes on my MacBook Pro and I connected like normal from my iPad 2 to my shared video library. I was browsing my TV Shows and Movies when I noticed something strange. The same artwork was showing up multiple times! When [...]
March 23rd, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
So Photostream is a great feature of iCloud, but sometimes getting it to work properly can be a major problem. I’ve had several problems with Photostream including it not showing up on my iPad 2 and it disabling itself in iPhoto all the time. These are really annoying problems because the photos have to keep [...]
October 19th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
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, [...]
October 16th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
With every new edition of Internet Explorer, there are always a new set of problems that one must contend with! IE 9 is a good step forward in that it supports many standards and will make designing web pages much easier, but it does have a few technical problems. Sometimes it’s slow, sometimes flash crashes, [...]
April 1st, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
If you have no restore points on your Windows Vista or 7 computer, then Windows may not be creating the restore points automatically. There are a number of different problems that can cause this. One cause is a lack of sufficient free space on your hard drive to save the System Restore files. To remedy [...]
February 24th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Is Windows detecting your USB flash drive as the wrong capacity? For example, a 16GB flash drive showing up as only a couple hundred MBs in Windows? This can happen for several reasons. Most of the time, the recent formatting of a USB flash drive, on another computer, can cause USB flash drives to display [...]
February 23rd, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
These days, it seems like everything “online” requires a password. For websites like PayPal, it’s crucial to have as strong of a password as possible, for obvious reasons. One popular trend that many people have taken to is the use of password generators. Password generators work by randomly generating passwords, consisting of scrambled letters and [...]
January 14th, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
Windows Update Error Code occurs when your computer is having trouble connecting to Microsoft’s Windows Update server. The error usually occurs before you are actually able to download and install any new updates. Learn two ways to fix Windows Update error code 0x80072efe. What is Windows Update Error 0x80072efe? To download and install Windows updates, [...]
January 3rd, 2011 by Aseem Kishore
MP3 files are well known to users of Windows 7 and devices such as iPods, smart phones, and other digital music players. The most popular digital audio file, MP3s offer excellent quality in a small package. However, the MP4 format will likely replace MP3s as the most popular digital file format. Learn about the differences [...]
October 20th, 2010 by Aseem Kishore
Mostly, I troubleshoot problems the the Windows operating system, but now that I own a lot of Apple products, I’ve gotten good at troubleshooting iPods, iPads, and Macs in general. One problem that a client of mine had was that his iPad would not show up in iTunes. iTunes simply would not recognize his iPad [...]