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2006
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As we research computer problems, we find interesting articles about security, useful applications, website design and solving computer problems. We hope you find these tidbits useful.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
eBay Blogs - Five items you shouldn't pay to repair: "First Item: Computers Tired of your computer crashing on you? Before you hire the Geek Squad to tinker with it, consider this: According to a recent Consumer Reports survey of 2,300 readers, 31% of desktop computers weren't fixed properly the first time or didn't work well afterward. Still, knowing whether to junk it or not is often a judgment call. Here are some general guidelines: If the computer is more than five years old, buy a new one, says Dean Gallea, program leader for computer testing at Consumer Reports. If it's between two and five years old, consider a cheap upgrade. If the desktop is slow, for example, try swapping the memory card for $100. If you've run out of hard-drive space for your digital photos and MP3 files, buy an external drive for $50. But if that desktop keeps crashing and you have to shell out $250 for a 'diagnostic' session, then you're probably better off buying something new. 'You can get a new budget-level desktop for $300 that will probably be much more powerful than the thing that you're scratching your head over,' says Gallea."
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Members of EbayTips For Sellers Whether you just want to have some fun, use eBay to clear out your attic, make a few extra bucks, or even start and eBay business, you will have to master the ?basics? to sell successfully on eBay. The following tips are a good start ?but you will need to keep learning to master the secrets of eBay success.
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Saturday, November 11, 2006
Buy.com -Q: How do I submit a price match? A: If you find an in-stock book that is more than 90% of Amazon's price for the same book, please click here to email us via our webform. Please be sure to include the URL to the Amazon sku AND your existing order number in which you already purchased the identical book from Buy.com. So I ordered from BUY.com and this is the email I received: Thank you for contacting Buy.com. This is in reference to your email regarding order #30067268. We appreciate your interest with Buy.com. According to our record you place the order with Google Checkout. We apologize that Buy.com do not honour price match on order place with Google Checkout. We thank you for your patience and understanding in the matter. Sincerely, Jacob Buy.com Customer Service
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Out of the Frying Pan, and into the Cube Tuesday, November 07, 2006 Sometimes free work pays off Although, truthfully I did get paid in Guinness and made from scratch cookies, but all the work I did on that laptop paid off in an unexpected way today. I was sitting at the helpdesk early this morning, when our network admin came by with a laptop. It had been one of our pool laptops for a remote office before it got completely hosed by trojans and spyware. He had been working at cleaning it up off and on for a few weeks and had gotten to the point where there was just one trojan left on it, and he was having a hard time getting it cleaned, because the .dll that McAfee was identifying was attached to winlogon.exe. I agreed to take a look at it using some of the tools I still had on my thumb drive. When I booted the laptop, and McAfee told me I was dealing with Adware.Virtumonde, the same exact bit of crap that I had struggled with on that other laptop, I knew I was only going to need one of those tools. The VundoFix tool. I ran it, let it do it's thing, rebooted and voila, no more trojan warnings from McAfee. Took me 15 minutes to do something our network admin had been struggling for weeks with. Tell me that doesn't make me look good? ;)
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Thursday, November 02, 2006
With Microsoft Office Live Basics, you can get your own Web site, business e-mail, and more. All for FREE.
Features include: * Personalized business domain name * Professional, hosted Web site * Easy-to-use design tools * 5 business e-mail accounts * Web site traffic reports They want a credit card number though for verification and it does not work with firefox.
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CSS: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners [Dave's CSS Guide]: "Welcome to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) : An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners. With the help of this hands-on CSS tutorial, you can learn virtually every aspect of CSS1, by example, according to the official W3C specifications."
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Walmart $398 Laptop - Nov 5 to 11: "Compaq Presario V5305WM Laptop Computer - $398.00 Product Link
Official Specifications * 2.00 GHz Mobile AMD Sempron? Processor 3300+ * 512MB 333MHz DDR (upgradable to 2GB) * ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M IGP (128MB) * 60GB 5400RPM Hard-Drive * 24X DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive * 15.4? WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800) Display * Integrated 56k modem, 100mb Network Card and 54g 802.11b/g Wireless Connectivity * 1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (Not PCMCIA) * 10.2'(L) x 14.1'(W) x 1.38'(min H) /1.77'(max H) * 6.4 lbs Minimum 15 per store. Limit 1 per customer, no rain-checks. This is only good from November 5th to November 11th (NOT BLACK FRIDAY) at Wal*Mart. "
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Weebly - Website Creation Made Easy: "Weebly is the easiest way to create a great looking website and share it with the world for free. From personal to professional sites, Weebly will enable you to spend your time on the most valuable part of your site, its content."
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