Being that I’ve spent a decent amount of time over the past couple of weeks attempting to get Office 07 to install and run in Ubuntu 8.04, I figure it would be appropriate to start this post with a Q&A session.  This is what I have learned so far, take it for what it’s worth.

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About two weeks ago, not more than a few days after the end of my Junior year of college, I decided that it was time to do something with my laptop.  My installation of Windows XP Pro was starting to get sluggish and being the impatient type that I can sometimes be; it was beginning [...]

Last week, I wrote an article on proper hard drive sterilization and as promised I’m going to follow up today with an article on how to digitally shred individual files.  Let me first start off by saying this.  If you’re some type of cyber criminal and you’re reading this in hopes of destroying evidence, you [...]

I was looking into alternative forms of advertising last night and I started thinking about Facebook again.  I decided to do a little investigation and found that Facebook offers a program called Social Ads. They allow you to choose either a Cost Per Click (CPC) model or a Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM) model.  For each [...]

This article is for all of you that may have a computer sitting around that lives in an old, ugly…probably creme colored case.  I know there are plenty of you out there.  Luckily, with a little time and a few supplies, you can have your computer looking and feeling younger in no time!  I’ve bolded [...]

Hundreds of computer users sell their used computer systems everyday.  Why?  Well, because computers systems become out-dated…everyday.  Whether it be at a garage sale, on eBay or just to a friend, computers are constantly changing hands.  Sometimes however, users fail to realize that when they sell their old system, they could also be selling a [...]

It’s 7:30AM, you just woke up and realized that you forgot to print out that ten page research paper on the eating habits of bighorn sheep.  You rush over to your computer and one glance at your screen makes your heart sink-you see the dreaded blue screen.  After a few attempted restarts, you find that your [...]

WindowsXP Pro and certain implementations of Windows Vista have a fun little feature known as file encryption.  On WindowsXP Pro, this feature is called EFS or Encrypted File System and can be implemented on the file or folder level by right clicking on said file/folder, selecting properties, followed by advanced and selecting “Encrypt contents to [...]

Now that you’ve gotten all the hardware components for your new DVR/Media center installed and configured, you will need to get some software. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, please check it out here. For starters, you will need an operating system. For most of you, you will be using a variation of Windows, [...]

For the past number of years, TiVo has been all the rage because of it’s ability to record/pause/fast forward and rewind live TV.  TiVo is great for the everyday TV fan, but what do you do when you watch an excessive amount of TV and have an odd obsession with recording all of it, including [...]