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Irritated by your internet experience? Would you love to download any video you would like? Is there something you want to do online but it just won’t let you? I have been there too, but I found a solution, Firefox. Firefox is an internet browser and it is my personal favorite. What makes it so good in my point of view? The add-ons, hands down. Install Firefox for yourself, and  [ Read More ]

Is Photoshop to expensive for you? They now have an online version that you can use for free. It is among the best free photo editors that you can use. It is not just cropping and resizing though of course it can do that. There is a host of editing options available to you in a user friendly interface. However being web based it does lag at times when loading  [ Read More ]

This a free update to the recommendations that I have made about anti-virus software. I have and still do think that Avira AvitVir is very good software. It is very effective and for home use free. However I have had many problems lately getting it to update. I can’t my systems to update, or any of my customers at there different locations. I have had very good experiences lately with  [ Read More ]

Hi, I was working on keyboard replacement on a laptop today, when I was asked what a good free image edging software was. I really like to use Gimp, the only problem with gimp is the interface isn’t what people are familiar with. There is a solution. Gimp Shop! It is a full program that is very powerful, but this will also give you the same interface as Photoshop so  [ Read More ]

Windows Vista, one of the most controversial operating systems ever produced. I dealt with a lot of computers with Vista, and I hated it. It didn’t work well with software or hardware, networking was a problem basically nothing worked right but the looks of the thing. So should you be wary of Windows 7? Absolutely not, I have been beta testing it, and it is everything Windows Vista should have  [ Read More ]

I have run across a lot of computer problems lately at the shop caused by more than one anti-virus program. This is something everyone should know, you can have as many spyware programs as you want ( within reason ) and it is good to scan with more than one. However this is just not the case with anti-virus software. They don’t play well together. Most of the time one  [ Read More ]