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Broken Power Jack
This is a very common repair problem. I can't tell you how many times I see a laptop being taken out of the carrying case with the AC adapter still plugged into the unit. Most of the time, if the client did not have a problem with either the AC adapter or the input...
Computers for College
Flashback: When I went to college in the eighties to study mathematics and computer science, I started to use a computer, but it was an IBM mainframe. To calculate some homework I had to sit at a card puncher terminal to create a small program that ran overnight, just...
Business and Pleasure
Business and pleasure shouldn't mix on your computer. If you go to personal or questionable sites on your business computer, your unit is more likely to pick up nasty viruses and spyware. Same goes for allowing kids to play on it. You don’t want them messing up your...
How I view it
Born 1960 in West Berlin, back in the days of a divided Germany, I grew up with a handful of West German and two East German television channels. I vaguely remember the black and white transmissions stopped daily around about midnight. The streets were as good as...
Preserving Old Content in New Computers
I’ve always been a collector, and for many years a collector of VHS tapes. Over the years a pile of classic Disney movies and favorite films accumulated; they might not be blockbusters but were enjoyed by family. And then there were computer games such as The Sims,...
What the Tech?
Home-based offices and small businesses are increasingly dependent on a rapidly changing network of websites, marketing, e-finance, social media, browsers, web traffic and various kinds of software, applications, and tools. The average business computer runs a version...
