Every last one of us has been aggravated at some point or another by advertising on the internet. Those pop up or pop over ads which interrupt your viewing have the most annoying timing. They seem to make customers want to run screaming in the opposite direction rather than to click the ad to see whats behind it. The products which are being advertised by the click me or pop up ads sometimes don’t stand a chance of being clicked simply because they irritated the [...]

Save Time on the Internet with RoboForm RoboForm is a helpful application which stores your passwords and form information. We decided to give RoboForm a trial run to determine just how helpful the program can be. When you install RoboForm, you are prompted to enter a Master Password. The password is not recoverable, so make sure it is one you can easily remember. You can also set it the minutes of inactivity necessary before it asks for a Master Password for additional security. RoboForm works [...]

How utterly annoying is it when something works one minute and the next minute it just won’t. I’ve run into this time and time again, and my best advice to anyone, novice or experienced user is to back up before you change up. That includes even altering the most unlikely thing, because it can, and will cause problems. My most recent experience was with Twitter Tweet Deck, which played a few games with my windows Xp SP3 machine that shouldn’t have happened. I can’t explain [...]

As office suites go, Microsoft office seems like it has it all and then some, and the reality is, that it does.. Microsoft office has a lot going for it, but Microsoft office also has a BIG hefty price tag to go along with those perks. Not everyone can afford Microsoft Office and in all honesty, not everyone wants to. To teens, personal computer users on a budget and small business people starting out, Microsoft Office is cost prohibitive. Frankly, we don’t understand the problem [...]

Remember when the internet was all about freebies and you could get just about anything at the click of a mouse?  If you browse around that’s still the case, but it takes a little looking. Some of the most fun things to play with on your computer are free fonts. I love the dingbat fonts, as it let’s me make some interesting pictures in Corel, but even if you just want to write on something like msn or your web site in a unique font, [...]

Having a small business or personal web site is nearly a requirement today, and if you’re going to do business of any kind, people are going to be looking for your website to offer them the low down on what you do and how you do it, from a printing business to ebay marketing. One of the fastest and easiest ways to accomplish your online presence is going to be with a word press blog. While Word Press began as a blog type software, the [...]

HELP!! My sound stopped working after I reinstalled Windows!! I can’t hear anything at all. Why won’t they work?? That was the frantic phone call from my sister, who is learning slowly to reformat her computers and reinstall the things the kids break.. Chances are the answer is that when you wiped out the computer, you didn’t realize that the mainboard drivers weren’t saved to be put back on. How it works is that if your sound card and or your video card is a [...]

Open Source software seems to be all the rage, and for a very good reason. For the most part, its free.Of course anyone is going to question that. Nothing worth having is free. WRONG!! In this case alone, the old adage, “nothing in life is free”, just might be in error. One thing that its important to remember is that many of the free versions of software are just as good, although perhaps more limited than those which you are paying a premium price for. [...]

There seems to be a vast concern lately about spyware and adware, some of which places things that compromise your security on your machine. Others will simply keep downloading links that are making someone rich while your computer slows down to a disgusting crawl that you can’t seem to recover from. There are some great free spyware and adware programs, and also a few online places to go where you can test your own computer to see if you’ve been affected by adware or spyware [...]

Among the things that nearly everyone needs when writing email or even a small note on notepad, is a spell checker. While there are some built into many of the office softwares now, on some of the sites you’re going to go to you won’t find it. Even the best speller is going to make a mistake once in a while and rather than look silly, isn’ t it in your best interests to have a spell checker that can be downloaded and used on [...]

No matter how careful you are, there will come a time when you lose a  computer driver of one kind or another. Most generally you will accidentally uninstall it, the cat will step on the keyboard at a strategic time or the kids will wonder exactly what that file does and check it out. Don’t laugh. Every single one of those thngs has happened to me. While windows of all flavors offer a lot of printer or other device drivers, so that your computer printer [...]