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Category: Computer

  • WordPress Support Review

    Rating: 5 WaterTowers Before Christmas, I noticed that I had lost column #2 of my main page Blog. On most individual pages I could see it, while on others, I could not. (This turned out to be a major hint, that I did not catch at the time). Very odd. Not expecting to hear back from…

  • Google Chrome Review

    Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers I have been seeing a smattering of Google Chrome browsers hitting my blogs and main web site so I decided to find out more. I downloaded Google Chrome a few days ago and have now made it my “default” browser. Really quickly here is what I have found out: Google Chrome has…

  • Linksys Wireless Router Installation and Review

    Linksys Wireless Router Installation and Review

    Rating: 4 WaterTowers This past week I purchased and installed a Linksys Wireless Router for a client. But before I installed the system at their location, I tried it at home to make sure it worked. It did. Product Linksys Wireless Router WRT54G2 comes in a sleek package looking more like a flying saucer than…

  • Cuil: A New Search Engine

    This week some ex-Google employees launched a new web search engine: Cuil. Pronounced: Cool. Being the curious type I went to the Cuil web site and fired up a few searches. So far it appears as though they still have a bit of work to do. Here are two screen shots of a search for…

  • Apple IPod Transfer — A quick test

    Just trying something….this was Kristen’s idea to see if we could download the contents of the Apple IPod to a “random” computer. Can we? Let’s give it a try…. The first thing we did was plug in Kristen’s old IPod (she now has a brand spanking new IPod Classic 80 gig so she can fit…

  • Western Digital My Book 1 TeraByte Drive

    For Fathers Day I received a couple of books (Sue Grafton’s “K” and “L”) a really cool sign for my yard (Free Weeds: Pick Your Own), and a badly needed expansion of our computer storage capacity: a Western Digital “My Book” 1 terabyte external hard drive with USB 2.0. To me, it is amazing that…

  • YeOldeTechy Virus Hunter

    OK…..I’m getting good at this, but, I should not have to do this at all. Elimination of virus infections on Windows Computers. With my handy-dandy 1 Gig dongle filled with virus killing software I visited a small business in Tracy today and spent 4 hours scanning, killing, and making everything work on this persons Windows…

  • LinkedIn

    OK, a few weeks ago, I signed up for LinkedIn. I entered a few bits of information and was invited by one person to join their network. I did nothing else. At the time, I decided that LinkedIn was a grown-up version of Facebook or MySpace. Even though I have a MySpace page I did…

  • Adobe PhotoShop Express

    Adobe PhotoShop Express

    What is Adobe PhotoShop Express? It is a free web-based version of PhotoShop with a limited set of features. Here is the web site. What are some of the Features of Express? There are quite a few very cool features for editing a photo (cropping, red eye touch up, sharpening, balancing, sketching, distorting, and more),…

  • Apple MacBook Air

    Apple announced today the arrival of the Apple MacBook Air. It is very thin, completely wireless and has no optical disk drive. Included on this device is a built in web cam that can be used with iChat software to videoconference. Note that iChat is NOT standards based, but, it can allow up to 4…