BACKUP!!!!
Do I have to shout!? In the last month or so I have had four friends have some sort of computer crash. One was a smartphone, the other three were computers. In two of those situations, backups were being made. In the other two situations, there were not backing up anything.
My Top 10 iPhone Apps
A friend of mine is considering getting an iPhone and asked me last night what my top 10 productivity and time management apps would be for iPhone. It really did not take long for me to decide what apps would be on the list. I just ran through my app pages finding the apps that [...]
Reinstall Nightmares
What started as a simple hard drive failure, which is not usually simple in itself, has turned into a 2 day ordeal and I am not even done with that yet.
New Year Blog Move
Well, I have decided to move back to blogger. I’ve spent the last year or two blogging on wordpress, but I’ve become a big Google fan/user and blogger is associated with Google, so here I am back again. I did attempt to import my wordpress blog, so that I could have all my posts back [...]
New Project!
Now that the kitchen project phase 1 is completed (you can see photos on facebook). And before we start on phase 2 of the kitchen project (removing wallpaper and painting the walls). I am working on a little side project I have been thinking about for awhile. I am building a “Media Center” PC. I’ve [...]
Being on Cloud 9
Some people might still not understand the concept of the “cloud” or “cloud computing” and I am probably not the best guy to explain it. But, you’ve always seen these drawings of the internet with a few “computers” all connected to a cloud shaped drawing called “the internet”. Well that is the cloud, the cloud [...]
Windows 7 Tools
So it’s been a few months since my last blog update – and I have been meaning to make a mention of some useful tools I found out about in Windows 7 that are not well known. So here we go! Snipping Tool is the first little gem. Before Windows 7 I used Paint Shop [...]
New Play Toys
It was bound to happen. Friday evening Laura and I decided to stop by and take a look at the new Apple iPads at Best Buy. Laura spent most of the time playing with it. I played with it a bit, and then just watched Laura. Before we walked out of Best Buy, we were [...]
Tis The Season
It’s that time of year!! We haven’t started decorating yet, but we plan to do some this weekend. We had talked about putting up lights outside, but since we are getting a late start, we decided not to do the outside. We’ll just decorate the inside of the house a bit, put up the Christmas [...]
New Computers and Virii!!
Saturday morning, I headed over to the south side of McAllen to CompUSA to get some upgrades for my main computer system. I came back with a AMD CPU, new MB, 500gb HD, 2gig of RAM, and a new case, along with a few other items that I would use to take my old components, [...]