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Technology has added many good things to our world, but many bad side affects as well. One of the worst is pollution. Finally a great option to reuse the plastic that is such a problem in the world today turn the plastic back into oil! window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “138278956230893″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol  [ Read More ]

The internet and social media are a daily reality, the question is how do you keep yourself and your family safe? I have some tips and I would love to hear what works for you as far as protecting your family on the internet. The first thing I recommend is don’t give out personal information on the internet and train your kids to do the same. Don’t say when you  [ Read More ]

Gone everything is gone! Not a good day or a good feeling when your computer crashes and all your work, your records, the great American novel it is all gone. What can you do at this point can you ever see it again? Most likely, ( I say cautiously )you can see at least some of that data again. The usual cause of such drama is a software issue, especially  [ Read More ]

Social media management is now a mainstream job. If you know how to create relationships using social media that is now valuable job experience. Like was shown in this news cast, you can earn 50,000 dollars a year updating Facebook and Twitter accounts as well as monitoring what people are saying about the business that has hired you. Think you have what it takes? Try posting your experience on Monster,  [ Read More ]

Admit it, you would love to know who’s is looking at your Facebook profile. Your ex, a friend, co-worker, who could it be? This scam promises to let you know that information, it shows up as an advertisement or a message on your wall from a friend ( It’s not really from a friend ) and promises to do just that. If you try to use it you could be  [ 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 ]

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 ]

Use the webcam on your home computer to protect yourself! The service at www.gotocamera.com has software that analyzes your webcam images for movement, then emails or texts you pictures if someone enters your house ( to make sure it is not your cat jumping around ). It’s a cheap way to monitor your house and can work with up to 4 webcams. A simple cheap way for a little peace  [ 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 ]