Archive for December, 2009
Website Review – Backupify
Backupify is a new web site/service available HERE. It’s free if you sign up before January 31, 2010. This is a slightly different backup than what you’re used to. Backupify backs up your online files. Right now they handle: Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, WordPress, Basecamp, Gmail, Facebook, Friendfeed, Blogger and Hotmail. With [...]
Software Review – SyncMyCal
If you prefer to use Google for you calendar, but need that information also placed in Outlook, then you have several options out there. Google gives away a free sync tool HERE, but it has one major limitation – it will only sync your primary calendar. Many of us have multiple calendars in Google, such [...]
Windows 7 – Set Default Programs
Windows 7 makes it easy to set you favorite default programs for lots of different tasks. Let’s jump right in. 1. Click Start and choose Default Programs. 2. Click Set Default Programs and you will be presented with a two-pane window. On the left are your default programs and on the right are a description [...]
Gmail Contacts Duplicates
Everyone who has a Gmail account has duplicate contacts. It’s inevitable. You email someone’s home address and then their work address and they show up as separate listings. It used to be you’d have to go go through your contacts one by one and fix these. But, recently, Google released an update to Gmail that [...]
Software Updates 12/19/09-12/26/09
SyncBackSE 5.8.7.23 available HERE CCleaner 2.27.1070 avilable HERE Vista Codec Package 5.5 available HERE
Trusting Microsoft SkyDrive?
Recently we posted an article (HERE) on how to set up a Windows SkyDrive account. Since they offer 25gb of storage for free I thought it was a great place to use for off-site storage of my photos. Thankfully, it was not my only copy of anything. It began as I was uploading a new [...]
Software Review – SyncBack
You NEED to back up your computers. If you don’t then you WILL loose files. That’s the plain and simple truth. Really, you need both local and off-site backup. Today we are looking at a program that makes local backup easy and also allows for easy local synchronization of files. Now let’s take a quick [...]
Changing Your DNS
Your first question is probably “Why would I want to?” There’s two major reasons. The first reason is speed. By default your DNS lookups are done by your ISP, which may not be the fastest choice. The second reason is safety. Using just any old DNS may lead you to a site that contains malware [...]
Fixing Windows 7 – Samba Issues
Today we’re going to get a little geeky here. I am running Windows 7 on my Desktop, Laptop and Media Center PC’s and FreeNAS on my home server. While neither the laptop nor media center have ever had a problem seeing FreeNAS, I have encountered several problems on the desktop. The end result was that [...]
Windows 7 Easy Scanning
If you simply need to scan something, eithee picture or text or a combination, and don’t need to do any fancy editing then Windows 7 makes it very simple. 1. Click Start, then Devices and Printers and locate your scanner. 2. Right-click the scanner and choose Start Scan. 3. The window that pops up gives [...]
