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Posted on August 22, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, review | Leave a Comment
Yeah, Bluehost is pretty much toast, we were down again for about an hour yesterday. My quest continues for a better host, but since most places rank Bluehost in the top 5 it makes me wonder if this cheap shared web hosting is really worth it. Dedicated servers are much more stable of [...]
Read More..>>Webhost Reliability
Posted on August 18, 2008 - Filed Under Business, Internet | Leave a Comment
When you do any kind of work online it’s very important that your websites are up as much as possible. Even though I love the plan we have with Bluehost, I find that the downtime is a little excessive. Sometimes it’s down every day for a few minutes up to a half hour, [...]
Read More..>>Burning DVDs
Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Software, computers | Leave a Comment
Finding good software for audio/video editing is easy. Finding that same software for cheap, or even free, is a challenge. Programs like Premier and Photoshop go for hundreds of dollars each and that’s a little too much to swallow for the average home user. Now however you can get Blaze Media Pro [...]
Read More..>>Holy Crap, Viruses! (Virii?)
Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under computer repair, computers | Leave a Comment
It’s been a busy few days here, lots of computers coming in with bad virus problems. Again! This time it’s a rash of similar ones such as XP Antivirus 2008, Vista Antivirus 2009, Virus Scanner 2008 and so on. At first these appear to be legit virus scanners, suddenly popping up near [...]
Read More..>>AVG 8.0
Posted on August 11, 2008 - Filed Under Business, Software, computer repair, computers | Leave a Comment
AVG has been my favorite virus scanner for quite some time now because it doesn’t take a lot of resources and seems to do a pretty good job. Version 7.5 free was pretty good but they ended support for that a while ago. When they killed support for 7.5 they cranked out a [...]
Read More..>>Routers Dropping like Flies
Posted on August 10, 2008 - Filed Under Business, computers | Leave a Comment
Typically after a bad thunderstorm we get a few people in with fried modems or network cards, but this summer it seems to be routers that are suffering the most damage. It’s not a lot really, just a couple here and there, with Linksys routers in particular this month. I’m not saying Linksys [...]
Read More..>>Don’t Just Click, Clicksmart
Posted on August 6, 2008 - Filed Under Business, Internet | Leave a Comment
The yellow pages are becoming less and less useful these days when it comes to finding businesses and service providers. Large comprehensive online directories are fast taking over and it’s easy to see why, even a basic online directory listing contains a lot more information than you can find in a paper booklet. [...]
Read More..>>Connection Manager
Posted on July 28, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Software, computers | Leave a Comment
Laptops are becoming more and more popular these days, but getting them online wirelessly can be a chore for people who aren’t used to that sort of thing. While Windows XP and Vista have built in connection managers, they aren’t exactly the most user friendly apps I’ve come across. Avanquest Software comes to [...]
Read More..>>Format and Windows Re-install
Posted on July 28, 2008 - Filed Under computer repair, computers | Leave a Comment
There’s been quite a few computers brought in lately that were loaded with viruses and other little problems, so I’ve been busy with formats and windows installs. File moving services are usually needed in the process since people don’t want to lose their pictures and large music collections. My normal rates for that [...]
Read More..>>Email Marketing
Posted on July 24, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Marketing | Leave a Comment
I hate spam email as much as the next guy, but there are a lot of good uses for Email marketing software such as sending out newsletters or specials to those customers who have signed up for such things. Using something like Outlook Express can work for small lists, but if you’re sending out [...]
Read More..>>Get Organized
Posted on July 8, 2008 - Filed Under Business, Internet, Software | Leave a Comment
One thing I could certainly stand to do is be a little more organized. I forget little things a little too often (big things too sometimes, oops) mostly because I’m just too busy to remember it all. A new website is aiming to help people like me to get organized with Smead Organomics, [...]
Read More..>>Free Themes
Posted on July 8, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Software, computers | Leave a Comment
Getting a web host, a domain name and installing a blog is fairly easy to do. Making a custom theme requires a fairly extensive knowledge of PHP programming, something which I lack. So once I got my blogs all set up I needed a new theme. The basic one that wordpress installs [...]
Read More..>>Happy Canada Day!
Posted on July 1, 2008 - Filed Under Business, Internet, This Town | Leave a Comment
As usual we’re open even though it’s a national holiday. Business tends to be pretty good on this day but so far this time it’s been really quiet. The weather started out pretty dreary though but now that the sun is breaking through I see more people out and about. I spent [...]
Read More..>>Web Hosting Reviews
Posted on June 27, 2008 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
There’s certainly no shortage of good web hosts out there and lately it seems that there’s no shortage of web hosting sites either. They’re springing up all over the place and in some cases seem to be little more than a collection of affiliate links wrapped in a ‘review site’ wrapper. Web [...]
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