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Home » Archives for November 2010
7:32 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Many of my clients that have an iPhone and an iPad are having buyer's remorse.
The major difference between an iPhone and an iPad is the size of the screen and the ability to act as a cellphone and folks who have bought both are finding that this may not be enough to justify having both an iPhone and an iPad.
Task iPhone iPad
Read books √ √
Cellphone √ X
Email √ √
Browse Internet √ √ (larger display)
Add Additional Storage Capacity X X
USB Port X X
Connect to Internet via WiFi √ √
Print √ √
If you have an iPhone, you might consider deferring your purchase of an iPad-like device until major players such as Samsung...
2:52 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
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1:37 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Here are a couple of things you can try to fix the problem:
Did you lock your keyboard by pressing the lock button? When you press the lock button again, does the screen remain blank? Try pressing the escape key (it looks like a u-turn) to force the display to re-appear. Then try pressing the lock button again.
Do you see an error message about an uncaught trap? In the body of the message may be a cryptic reference to the program that caused the problem. In my case it was the Blackberry Messenger Application. I deleted the application, the uncaught trap message went away, and my Blackberry stopped freezing. Re-loading Blackberry Messenger should fix the problem.
When you move from one...
11:27 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Is installing Carbonite the best backup and recovery strategy for your computer?
What do you want to back up?
Pictures
Documents
Emails
Address Book
Memos
Tasks
Calendar
For the first two items on the list, pictures and documents, Carbonite does a pretty good job.
For the rest of the items on the list, however, their integration with Outlook can present a problem. If you are like me, Outlook is always up and running. Unless Outlook is shut down, Carbonite cannot back up the rest of the types of files on the list because Outlook is using them and has them "locked".
To ensure Carbonite or an other backup program you use is able to access all your Outlook stuff, you need to export the contents...
11:05 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Instead of renting movies from a store, the world seems to have gone to downloading and playing movies over the Internet; the major player in this market is Netflix. What equipment is necessary to download and play movies from Netflix?
If you only want to watch movies on your laptop or desktop, all you need is a high speed Internet connection.If you prefer to watch movies on your TV, you must enable your TV-Internet connection. Here are three ways to do this:If your television has a built-in network interface card, connecting a cable (Cat5e) from your DSL/Cable Modem or router is a matter of finding a cable long enough to reach the television from the DSL/Cable Modem or router.
If your television...
10:55 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Can downloading a program from the Internet make a slow computer run like new?
Here is what happens when you download and install the software for free:
A scan uncovers hundreds, if not thousands of problems.
To fix the problems, you must get your credit card out and click the link in order to purchase the debugging software.
After purchasing the software and running another scan, all your problems are fixed.
When running the software on a brand new computer, I would expect few, if any problem. A scan uncovered hundreds of problems. Running software packages I recommend and trust, no errors were uncovered....
10:52 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
With three months' experience using a Droid 2, what have we learned?
The Droid platform is for users who like to browse the Internet. The phone has the same iPhone feature of changing from portrait to landscape display by rotating the phone. With the lack of a method of syncing your calendar, contacts, memos and tasks with Outlook, the phone is not suited as well for business users.
Here is a list of specific issues regarding the Droid phone:
The Droid platform is very iPhone like, but lacks the maturity of the iPhone. We would describe the phone as having been developed by a group of smart engineers who...
10:39 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
There basically are two types of cellphones:
Smartphones and standard cellphones
Smartphones can access the Internet and can send and receive email.
Standard cellphones can initiate and receive phone calls and send and receive text messages.
If you don't care about email or browsing the Internet, a standard cellphone is right for you.
If, however, you need a Smartphone, be aware that there are two basic Smartphone types:
Smartphones that browse the Internet well (iPhone, Droid).
Smartphones that send and receive email well and synchronize your email extremely well with Outlook (Blackberry).
iPhones and Droids can send and receive email, but do not integrate as well with Outlook as a Blackberry...
