Archive for February, 2009

Simple PC maintenance that works

PC maintenance is NOT difficult at all, but a lot of people don’t really know how to maintain their PCs and end up with all kinds of problems. Daily, I see requests for help in computer forums from guys that got their machines bugged. What I’m about to recommend may not be 100% full-proof but [...]

Cloud computing vs Web 2.0

The economic meltdown that swamped the US and the rest of the world particularly at the end of 2008 has not only reshaped the financial landscape, but also impacted the Web landscape in many ways. All in, 2008 was such a tumultuous year, that the past year’s events will likely continue to set the tone [...]

How to stop telemarketers from calling

You are very busy in your home office going through some important papers and the cell phone on your table starts ringing, demanding your attention. You may expect it to be someone you know or some other important phone call. You pick it up and on the other end, a smiling telemarketer starts ramming their [...]

Unable to safely remove my external drive

I have an older 80 GB hard drive that I’ve just relegated as an external hard drive by mounting it within an external casing. I thought all my backup problems were over from then on, but little did I know I would soon be facing a problem after I had copied gigabytes of data onto [...]

Google Talk In Orkut

Do you use Orkut? Orkut is an online community service created by Google back in 2003 that is now largely eclipsed by Facebook, and Myspace. Nonetheless, it still boasts of millions of users worldwide, although most of the demographic makeup has now switched to Brazil and India. Like most Google applications, in order to use [...]