I had a friend (Anette) ask me: I want to find out who owns a website-is there anyway of getting a name / address / phone # for that person? There’s websites that help you find the contact information for any given website. Most websites you can find doing a Google search for domain lookup, …
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If you get an email like below that appears to be from the Canada Revenue Agency, claiming you have a refund and to click the link to access the form, don’t do it. The link points to http://refund.canadarevenueagency.co.cc/esrvc-srvce/getStatus_en.htm and is not safe to click on. If you look closely (where I’ve bolded) the actual domain …
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I had a computer with a problem that aparently no one knows the answer to an eventually we found a solution. If importing .vob files into Adobe Premiere the video plays no problem but the audio cuts out after 30 seconds. Converting the file to an .avi file works, but there another solution without having …
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Identity theft alert! Photo copiers, printers, scanners have hard drives in them just like a computer. Every document you print, scan, or fax, could be stored on a hard drive inside your copier. When you decide to get rid of it, there could be a hard drive in there with all your information for someone …
A simple solution to some major problems I’ve fixed in the past is by simply clearing up your hard drive a bit. I was emailed a question how how to clean up the hard drive and here’s my tip for you. 1. Run Add/Remove programs and uninstall any program you no longer need or use. …
What’s the difference between a host based printer and a PCL printer? PCL is an acroynm for Printer Command Language. You can see a lot of detail on PCL history going back as far as 1984 on Wikipedia website. These printers have their own processor and can printer faster among other things. Host based printers …
Everyone wants something free! Here’s a free tip on how to get a free website. Basically, create a blog and modify it to look at a website, like I’ve done with this blog by adding pages. You just need to know how to create a username and password for yourself (same as setting up anything …
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Even though Windows XP is coming to an end and no support will be available, there are going to be computers with XP for a long time yet to come and people will be trying to support them and keep them alive for a long time still. So in repairing or reinstalling Windows, you need …
If you have the new Windows 7 Ultimate you will see a games explorer with lots of games including the usual Solitaire, Minesweeper, Hearts and FreeCell. If you have the Windows 7 Professional edition or less, you will find that the games are missing from the games explorer window. This is good for business so …
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Microsoft has extended the reitrement date of Windows XP at least once already. Currently anyone can still purchase Windows XP at some retail outlets, so sales is not discontinued yet. Support will continue for some time aftwards, meaning, you can download Windows updates and patches to fix issues with Windows XP. Even after updates are …
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