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Keep up with everyone, play Farmville of course and share documents? You bet, you can share files on Facebook using the Microsoft app called Docs. It allows you to create and share Microsoft Office documents with all your contacts on Facebook. In addition you can upload your files to your Facebook account and edit them from any computer because you can edit them online inside your Facebook account. Productivity and  [ Read More ]

How can you speed up your computer? ReadyBoost is a Windows feature perfected with Windows 7. It makes it possible for you to use USB flash drives to speed up your computer. You can use SD memory cards, flash drives pretty much any kind of flash memory card. Windows 7 can use ReadyBoost on up to 8 devices at the same time, giving you a maximum of 256GB of extra  [ Read More ]

Panicked, a customer called me recently, a company had called her and told her that her computer was suffering from serious problems. They had told her that it was sending out viruses and attacks and wanted to show her the problem. They walked her through getting to event viewer over the phone and showed her messages in there that according to them showed serious problems. The only way to fix  [ Read More ]

Get Microsoft Office for free from Microsoft by using Microsoft Web Apps. This is a stripped down version of Microsoft office, but it is not that stripped down. It has the main features of normally found in home and student version of Office 2010, and you can edit or view any Office document. To use this free app you just need to have a free windows live account. All your  [ Read More ]

Problems go hand in hand with one of our most useful tools, computers. They slow down, get viruses, and other strange blips. If it is not something that you can resolve yourself, the you have to either call your computer guy, or hall the computer down to a computer repair shop. What if you are out of town or need the fix quickly, and on a budget? These were common  [ Read More ]

This video shows how to Login to Brainstorm Computer Systems from facebook or our remote computer support page. This makes it possible for you to get a FREE diagnosis of your computer problems and get a quick, secure and affordable repair. Check out our quick and easy remote computer support. Don’t lug your computer to a shop or pay big bucks for a stranger to come into your home. Give  [ Read More ]

Frustratingly slow computer? I have written some tips in a previous post that can help speed things up. Here are some additional programs that can really help. First when cleaning temporary internet files, I use Ccleaner it works really well removing files and gunk that can clog up your computer. It also has a effective register cleaner that can really help. Also when it comes to defragging you computer I  [ Read More ]

So you were working or playing away and bumped your coke or water or whatever and now it is on your computer. What do you do? First of all it matters what you spilled, how much, and where it went. If you hit your keyboard, then you can usually give it a cleaning dry it out thoroughly and go on with life. If you spilled it on a laptop and  [ Read More ]

1. Disk Cleanup Your computer stores all of the text and images of every web page you visit. This utility will remove these unneeded files that are taking up space on your Hard Drive and that will speed up your computer. Use the instructions below to run the program. Go to Start button then All Programs, next to Accessories, then System Tools, finally click on Disk Cleanup. It will then  [ Read More ]

I was just working on a computer system in the office of a small business. I couldn’t update a virus removal software that used FTP. In addition Filezilla the FTP client they used for there website wouldn’t connect. In this case they had internet access, but I have seen situations where they didn’t. What was the cause? The over active firewall with there “internet security suite”. No matter who makes  [ Read More ]