Ron Schenone
"Congratulations, You're Not Getting A Dell"
“Congratulations, You’re Not Getting A Dell,” so says Tiger Direct in its advertising flyer. In the same advertising flyer, Tiger Direct gives six reasons not to buy a Dell. It then lists Acer, Lenovo, Sony, HP, Toshiba, and Gateway brand names as the six reasons. Next the folks at Tiger Direct pit the six brands [...]
What Blogging Software Do You Use?
For the past few days or so, the formating tool bar on my site here has taken a vacation. When I log in to the dashboard and go to write, only the HTML code section appears. It has been way to long since I played the code game and like most of you, have become [...]
Scot Finnie Concludes Firewall Testing – And The Winner Is?
After a year and a half of testing, Scot Finnie has finally concluded which is the best of the best when it comes to firewall protection. Needless to say it wasn’t the built in firewall supplied by Microsoft. But before we discover who Scot has given the honor to, I want to commend Scott for [...]
Dell Offers Blu-Ray On 1525 Laptop
Over at Dell they are starting to offer Blu-Ray options for players and burners on their 1525 series of laptops. The option is available in either a DVD Combo Blu-Ray player at $280 or the burrer model for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray for $480. At Fox/Business they describe the Dell 1525 as: The award-winning Inspiron 1525 laptop features [...]
Windows Vista Backup & Restore – Does It Work?
Yesterday I received a comment from a reader named Luis in which he described a problem he was having using the built in Backup and Restore feature of Windows Vista. He described his problem as: Hi, I have a huge problem and cannot find anything related to it on the internet. I’m running Vista Ultimate [...]
DriverMax – Save Your Hardware Driver Information
It has happen to all of us. Windows has become corrupted after a virus attack or just because it wants to be a pain in the rump. Now you are faced with a clean install to fix the problem. Wouldn’t it be nice to have all of your updated hardware drivers ready to be reinstalled? [...]
Migrate To Mac – Switch 101
During the past year many PC users have either switched or have considered switching over to a Mac system. One of the questions that comes up is how hard is the learning curve going to be? Fortunately Apple has a great site that takes some of the pain on making the switch. Called Switch 101 [...]
Launch Of Adobe Photoshop Express Beta For Free Public Use
Adobe is offering to the public a free beta test of its Photoshop Express software. Included in the freebie is up to 2G of online storage. Users can then store, edit or use eye catching effects to modify their photographs. All of this online and is done through your browser. [Gee, this sounds like more [...]
Netflix Will Credit Customers With A 5% Discount
I’m a Netflix customer and on Tuesday I received a notice from the company apologizing for the outage they suffered on Monday March 24, 2008. The outage resulted in a delay in one of the movies I had ordered by one day. I later learned that Netflix was going to apply a credit of 5% [...]
Comcast Blocking Some Yahoo Emails?
I received an email this morning from a relative asking for help in receiving email thru their Comcast account which is being sent via a Yahoo account. It seems that Comcast is filtering out some Yahoo emails because of spaming. In their response Comcast states: “Thank you for contacting Comcast. My name is Patricia, and [...]
