the boomer live

The last couple of Quicktime upgrades have offered to download Safari for me, with the acceptance box already checked.  This really aggravates me.  I though Apple was above these sort of "tricks".  They are probably trying to get their user numbers for Safari on Windows up.  I also got stuck with Pictureviewer (part of Quicktime [...]

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Vicki’s computer started getting the blue screen of death with the warning kernel_date_inpage_error last week.  The notes on the page indicated that it could be one of the following problems, memory could be going bad, bad disk sector, or a recent software download.   The ‘puter is 3 years old so I suspected a disk drive [...]

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I don’t know about you but my computer screen often gets covered in dust, hair and smudges.  Try this free screen cleaner, it seems to work very well.

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The death of analog TV is scheduled for midnight February 17th 2009.   The government mandated that all new TV’s built after March 1st 2007 must be able to receive digital signals, but don’t worry you will still be able to use your old TV using a digital converter box.  The government will even give you [...]

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Ever not been able to play a video file with Windows Media Player ?  We use VLC media player as a back up to windows media player, it comes with codecs to play most video files.  When a file won’t play in windows media player we just open VLC and it plays!   Its free, and [...]

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  Bill Gates last day at Microsoft video shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, features Clooney, Clinton, Bono, and others.  Funny, especially if you are into tech.

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Here are some tips we learned on our recent South America Cruise. The first two tips apply anytime you are traveling, with any digital camera. 1. If you are not taking a pc or device for downloading photos & videos, make sure you have a large enough memory card.  The Sandisk Ultra II line is [...]

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Retrevo is a search engine for tech gear that can be used for shopping, research , finding manuals etc.  Type in a product and it will grab results on where to buy, with price, reviews, forum disscussions etc.  All neatly arranged.   I have tried it and it works well, is intuitive and fast.  All in [...]

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