Apr 8, 2009 | broadband, business, computers, hardware, mobile, netbooks, phone, wireless
Netbooks will be widespread by the end of the year, shaking up the PC market and changing our world in ways that will be more dramatic than you expect. You might not have foreseen one of the ways they’ll be distributed – sold and subsidized by the cell phone carriers....
Apr 7, 2009 | computers, hardware, Microsoft, mobile, netbooks, Windows7, WinXP, wireless
The world is changing in front of our eyes again. Let me give you a preview of some technology that is going to change the computing landscape permanently – and do it before the end of 2009. This is a big deal! Take a minute to read this – it will help you understand...
Mar 24, 2009 | computers, hardware, WinXP
Why are our computers running so slowly? I began to notice it about six months ago. Everyone with a 3-5 year old Windows XP computer was complaining that their computers were running slowly. Occasionally I can still improve things by turning off unnecessary startup...
Mar 9, 2009 | backup, hardware
There are no excuses. You must have a backup of your data that is updated regularly. A backup is just a second copy of your files stored separately from the primary computer’s hard drive. It doesn’t matter how that copy is maintained as long as you understand the...
Mar 5, 2009 | backup, hardware
Before we get into specifics, you should know that there are two different kinds of backups: backups of your data, and backups of an image of your hard drive. The one that comes to your mind first is a backup of your data – basically just a copy of your files and...
Mar 4, 2009 | backup, hardware
Let’s spend some time in the next week or so talking about backups. Every computer depends on a hard drive to run the operating system and programs and to store your data. A hard drive has very, very thin round platters spinning incredibly fast (typically 7200...
