Author: John
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Holiday Season Means Free Tech Support for The Relatives
Holiday time usually means a great deal of Tech Support for family and friends as well as colleagues at work. So for my favorite work Tech Support person and in order to keep it straight myself, I have some ideas organized from my background as well as others around the internet. Malwarebytes (MBAM) One author’s…
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Wi-Fi Troubleshooting
I recently begain using inSSIDer 2 to troubleshoot WLAN networks, primarily because I am running Windows 7 on 64-bit machines and this one works very well with that. MetaGeek has done a nice job and I suppose it was time I upgraded from NetStumbler.
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Chrome Extension: Highlight to Search
Everyone has a list and a love of AddOns and Extensions for Firefox and Google. I am no different. And I have gone through the period of time when I have a lot of them, and when I have less of them. What made the largest difference in my use was when Google made it…
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2010 How I Spent My Summer
This summer I haven’t posted as I was out riding across the TransAmerica, TransAm, #acatransam! The trail took me from Yorktown, VA to Portland, OR. See the trip, with notes and pix on Google Maps or TrackMyTour. I am decompressing at present and haven’t even cleaned or performed maintenance on my Rivendell Atlantis: Home 4,143…
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Your Own Personal QR Code
This is mostly just information from the wonderful Gina Trapani and her article on How to Make Your Personal QR Code read it for a more thorough take on the entire subject and great comments. I am mostly just saving the links to the generators so I can find them in a hurry. I see…
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In The Shop: Miro 3.0 and the New Miro Video Converter
Drop on over to GetMiro.com and download the new Miro 3.0 which is billed as “Faster, louder, smoother, subtitles!” and upgrade. For those who don’t use Miro to organize and play all your video files as well as subscribe to Hulu, TED and an amazing amount of other feeds, well, why not? What I am…
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What Does Big Brother Know About One?
I was researching database scraping and the deep web and I ran across this article from Consumerist.com and I haven’t looked up all the information, but it is an interesting list of places to look and see information about oneself. Employment History Reports The Work Number ChoicePoint (866) 312-8075 Acxiom Abso Tenant History Reports ChoicePoint…