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Home » Archives for February 2011
8:59 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Your G4 processor Apple computer has served you well but:
You cannot play movies from the Internet from NetFlix.
You are unable to read ebooks using the Kindle eBook Reader Application.
You cannot upgrade your version of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 to the current version (2011).
You are unable to upgrade to the newest version of the Apple Operating System (Snow Leopard 10.6).
You cannot have more than 2 gigabytes of memory (RAM) installed on your system to make it run faster or to support memory intensive applications such as Adobe Photoshop.
Time for a new Apple computer. Apple just announced there new offerings. Here is a link to an article that describes their new computers.
http://w...
12:10 PM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Verizon finally released v6.0 of the Blackberry Operating System to some of their "newer" older Blackberry SmartPhones. What do you need to know before your upgrade?Make sure your Blackberry is backed up. Use Blackberry Desktop Manager to do this.
Your cellphone should be sync'ing your contacts, memos and tasks successfully.
You have a backup of your SD media card. Use Blackberry Desktop Manager or copy the contents of the card to your computer when your Blackberry is connected to your computer. The SD card should be displayed as a removable media drive in Windows Explorer.
Document all the applications you have downloaded from the web. This list must be detailed enough for you...
11:51 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Computer memory (or RAM) is a key component of ensuring your computer can perform fast.
One way to lessen the cost of a computer is my limiting how much memory comes with it out of the box and how much memory the computer can be upgraded to later. Make sure the computer you have in mind has the following minimums or can be upgraded later before buying it:
Windows XP- at least 1 megabyte (more is better)
Vista - 2 megabytes (4 megabytes is better)
Windows 7 - 2 megabytes (4 megabytes is better)
To determine how much memory your computer can be upgraded to go to:
www.kingston.com and enter the vendor and model number into the...
11:29 AM
High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting
Investing in another flat screen monitor can increase your productivity:
You can have more than one window open full sized at the same time because you have double the amount of desktop space to spread things out. This makes previewing a document and editing the document a snap.
Imagine being able to editor photos by having one monitor displaying the before and the other monitor displaying the after editing result.
You can multi-task by monitoring your email and surfing the web.
What hardware do you need besides the additional monitor? You need a video card that can send your display to two monitor.
If you have a laptop, does your laptop have an additional video monitor connection. Consult...
