Backblaze March 22nd, 2016 @ 8:53 am PST
If you don’t backup your computer regularly, you are asking for a disaster.
The Dexia Rack Laptop Stand June 20th, 2009 @ 8:13 am PST
In which I praise an excellent laptop stand
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 May 28th, 2008 @ 10:20 am PST
Free Virus Scanner
Unwanted Software June 19th, 2007 @ 6:02 pm PST
Yesterday I became the proud new owner of a Dell D630 Latitude. Today I began the tiresome task of transferring my life from my old D610 to it. The old laptop was Anchor. (Previous computers were Budweiser, Guinness, and Corona.) The new laptop is Maui. Here is a list of the software that Dell decided […]
A Wet Laptop June 11th, 2007 @ 1:37 pm PST
My mom just sent me the following text message: I just dumped a venti starbucks on my work computer! Help! Attempts to contact my mom via her cell phone have failed. Unfortunately even if I could get her on the phone, the only advice I could give her — after over a decade of working […]
iPod and New Computer June 30th, 2004 @ 12:34 am PST
If you’re sitting there with a new computer and scratching your head trying to figure out how to get all your music from your iPod and iTunes library on your old computer, scratch no longer! This is how you do it. Another alternative is the Lifehacker article Copy Music from Your iPhone or iPod to […]
Personal LAN June 20th, 2002 @ 7:18 am PST
This Is a Call Can any of my beautiful readers recommend a good link for connecting PCs? I’m looking for some sort of PC-to-PC software. I have a USB cable designed for PC-to-PC communications, but the software provided is chunkus blowus. (That’s Latin for “blows chunks”, of course.) I’ve been searching Google and NoNags but […]
Oqo April 19th, 2002 @ 10:24 am PST
A little tiny computer running Windows XP
RAM February 6th, 2002 @ 8:10 pm PST
There’s a good little tutorial on How to Buy RAM for your PC at Amazon.com.
AI December 22nd, 2001 @ 5:38 pm PST
Life began with direct coding on bare, carbon-chemistry hardware, like amino acids and proteins. Higher programming languages, like DNA and RNA, evolved gradually. Computers began in a similar fashion, with programmers coding on to the bare machinery of their circuits. Higher programming languages have followed, each generation more powerful than the last. There is, of […]
