Local Game Developers first release!
Posted on January 16, 2010 - Filed Under Entertainment, Software, This Town, gaming | 2 Comments
Xona Games, a local game studio manned by Jason & Matthew Doucette, has finally released their first game on the Xbox Live Indie Marketplace, Decimation X. I haven’t played it yet since it just released today and I’m still at work, but I bought it already. It’s only a buck (80 MS fun-bux) [...]
Read More..>>Debit Machine
Posted on November 26, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, Ranting, Software, Technology, gadgets | Leave a Comment
We own our debit machine while most stores and businesses rents theirs. The debit machines are different from the POS systems that one uses to record your sales but it is a must to have in any businesses. Some 5 yrs ago, we were approached by a company that sells debit machine [...]
Read More..>>Another Anti-Malware Program Added to my Arsenal
Posted on December 12, 2008 - Filed Under Business, Software | Leave a Comment
Being in this business of trying to repair computers and clean up software problems, I have a growing collection of apps and utilities I use to accomplish the task. AVG 8 and Super Anti-Spyware are the main two I use, combined they’ll get rid of almost everything, but this week I ran into something [...]
Read More..>>Insane Virus Infection
Posted on December 8, 2008 - Filed Under Amused, Software, computer repair, computers | Leave a Comment
I just finished cleaning out a badly infected hard drive, the final count for infected files? 32,914. Yeah, that definitely takes the cake as the worse infection I’ve ever had to deal with. I don’t know what they were doing with that computer, but part of the problem is that they were [...]
Read More..>>Reset a Windows Password
Posted on November 21, 2008 - Filed Under Software, computer repair, computers | Leave a Comment
I’m sure it’s happened to many people out there, I’ve seen it often enough here at the store. Forgetting your logon password for Windows can be a real hassle, especially if you have important files on the computer. You can always load up in safe mode to create a new user account, but [...]
Read More..>>Dragon Naturally Speaking 10
Posted on October 30, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Software, computers | Leave a Comment
There’s a neat little program out there that has come a long way since the early days when it first debuted. Dragon Naturally Speaking is now up to version 10 and works so well these days, and fast, that it can be of use to anyone who has a lot of typing to do. [...]
Read More..>>I got a Virus!
Posted on September 25, 2008 - Filed Under Software, computer repair, computers | Leave a Comment
I was at home. I saw a file. It was supposed to contain something I wanted, but I knew better. I really did. I knew something bad would happen if I clicked it.
I clicked it.
Half of these weren’t there a few seconds earlier.
Within 30 seconds I had a half dozen pop-ups [...]
Burning DVDs
Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Software, computers | 2 Comments
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..>>Online Meetings
Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under Business, Software, management | Leave a Comment
Back when I started this business and we were buying/selling store returns we’d normally take a couple trips a year to Toronto to meet up with our suppliers and pick out the goods we wanted to buy. Travel isn’t cheap though, along with the air fare and car rentals you need a hotel and [...]
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..>>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..>>Get more done with Microsoft Task Market
Posted on June 10, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Software, computers | Leave a Comment
Have you got too much work to do? Or maybe some projects that require skills you or your team don’t current possess? Microsoft is aiming to help you get more done faster with Task Market, a bulletin board job market of sorts. Businesses can list what tasks they need completed so that [...]
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