I thought I would follow up my post about not using Geek Squad with a short list of some of the things I would look for in tech support when I can’t fix a computer problem myself. If you notice that your computer is running slow and you might suspect a virus or […]

As a former unhappy employee of Geek Squad I wanted to provide a list of reasons why you shouldn’t bring your computer to them for any kind of service.
1. Most of the employees that are hired do not know that much about computer repair. Geeks Squad’s philosophy on fixing a computer was to tell […]

Does your computer run like it used to?  Maybe it’s struggling to even start up?  You can prevent this from happening in the future as long as you run your anti spyware and anti virus software frequently.  There is no set amount of times you should run these programs, but I feel that your anti […]

Here’s a video showing you one good way to destroy your hard drive data, so that identity thieves can’t get their hands on it.
PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS YOU ARE SURE YOU DON’T NEED YOUR HARD DRIVE ANYMORE!

Hitatchi recently released their 1 terabyte hard drive and they have a small flash animation to explain how they accomplished this.  I thought it was pretty interesting and you should click here to check it out.

Have you ever wondered how closed captions work?  Me too, and apparently so did the group of guys that were sitting next to me at the bar the other night.
For live programs, anything that is spoken throughout the broadcast is transcribed by a person using stenotype or steno mask type of machines, and then the […]

Ok this will be sort of a list post. I am going to define the terms most commonly used with computers so you’ll get a basic understanding of what all these things mean.

CPU - Central Processing Unit - this is the workhorse of your computer. It does all the calculations and process management […]

Engadget has posted this story relating to Intel’s new line of quad core processors.  The reason I am posting this is not only to provide you with some news from the computer world, but it also contains a lot of computer acronyms that I wish to explain later today.  So go check it and and […]