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What’s in a Google Cookie? Can They Track Me Online?

Posted on August 26, 2006 by Adam

During the mid to late ‘90s, I remember the common treatment towards browser cookies at the time was to set your browser to not accept any cookies at all. “They are evil”, “They contain private/personal information”, “They will damage your computer” were some of the more common statements at the time. For the most part,…Read More »

NOTICE: Apple Battery Recall

Posted on August 24, 2006 by Adam

First Dell, now Apple. Last week Dell was in the headlines for a massive notebook battery recall of 4.1 million batteries. Apple just stepped up to the plate 10 days later with a battery recall totaling 1.8 million batteries. As with Dell’s recall, Sony batteries are at fault. The recall appears to only affect Apple…Read More »

Convert Files to PDF

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Adam

PDF (Portable Document Format) files can be fairly useful. They’re standardized so that no matter what Operating System or reader software you use, they are all displayed in the same way (you can use FoxIt, Sumatra, or Adobe Reader). For instance, if you have an MS Word document, but the person you need to show…Read More »

Sans Digital MS2C1 Drive Enclosure Review

Posted on August 16, 2006 by Adam

Introduction External hard drive enclosures are quite handy to have these days. You can use them for backups, you can use them for transferring files, or you can even use them for general storage bins for some of your data (especially if you’re in to multimedia). The Sans Digital MobileSTOR Series MS2C1 drive enclosure is…Read More »

What to Do When a Damaged Package Arrives

Posted on August 4, 2006 by Adam

I had the unfortunate experience of having to deal with a damaged package of parts I ordered from ZipZoomFly over a week ago. Let me just say that although ZZF offers great deals and has regular “free shipping” offers, you don’t really know how that costs you until you have to deal with their support…Read More »

Create a Simple Backup System: Part III – Automating the Backup

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Adam

Scheduling an automatic backup will be the last step in this series of the Simple Backup System (be sure to take a look at Part I and Part II before diving into this one). Through the course of both articles, in order to perform a backup, you have needed to do it manually. The downside…Read More »

Create a Simple Backup System: Part II

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Adam

You should have had the chance to give the “Create a Simple Backup System” a whirl by now, but if not, you should probably at least read it first because I’ll be pressing right ahead with the next step of the process: backing up multiple directories with one .bat file! So, last time you should…Read More »

Create a Simple Backup System

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Adam

If you’re like most computer users these days, backups are nearly non-existent in your little digital work area. Here’s something that will take maybe 15 minutes of your time to figure out, which will allow you to backup a good portion (or all; if you want to go that far) of your stuff. The time…Read More »

Reuse Old Hard Drives

Posted on July 21, 2006 by Adam

If you’ve had a computer (or computers) for a while, most likely you’ve accumulated a few hard drives through the result of upgrades or friends who couldn’t find a use for old drives. Now, you might have room in your tower for these extra drives, or you might not. Or, you might even be using…Read More »

What is the REAL capacity of your drive?

Posted on July 9, 2006 by Adam

It’s been known for years that the way manufactures tally up hard drive capacity and the way computers tally up capacity are slightly different. We, as people, use the decimal system to count, as do the manufactures of hard drives. Computers, on the other hand, use the binary system. Binary is base 2. Two states—on…Read More »

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