Archive for April, 2008

Comcast Cable Internet for $25/month!

Monday, April 28th, 2008

For those of you that refuse to pay $45/month for internet, here is another option. Comcast has an economy plan in some areas in which you pay $24.95 per month and get 768Kbps download speeds. They do not advertise this, but have it as an option to compete ...

Pictures of a Counterfeit Microsoft Office 2003 Professional

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Well, I got burned on eBay. I looked so carefully through listings that I believed were bogus and I settled on a seller (in the USA) with high feedback. I received the box today -- a sealed Retail Box of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. I was a ...

Dell Downgrade Service to XP – PHOTOS

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I wrote earlier about Dell saving XP with their simple, customer-friendly policy to allow you to buy a Windows Vista Business license and they will ship the computer with XP installed. They call it "Windows Vista Business Bonus." Here is what it looks like on their website when configuring ...

Report Your Small Fraudulent Charges

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

If you got hit with a small fraudulent charge (AKA spam charge) on your credit or debit card, please comment about it here and let the searching world know! For information about Spam Charges, visit digitalagefraud.com. I just added a new post focuses on DECORATION ART, LLC -- comment there on that ...

BADVERTISMENTS! Beware of Bogus Popups – performanceoptimizer.com

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

I read a lot of current events news and tech articles and about 4 or 5 times in the least month, I've had popups that seem to take over Firefox. I call them badvertisements. I believe it is related to an Adobe Flash vulnerability. The unusual aspect ...

iPod Nano (1st generation) skips songs

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

This is driving me crazy! My iPod Nano keeps ending up skipping songs when they are in the playlist or it starts the song and skips to the next song a few seconds in. I have been able to fix it temporarily by removing the song from the ...

Do you need to buy a new digital TV before February 2009?

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

NO!! Boy, this is such an opportunity for deception (see this article, 3/4 of the way down), and I don't like deception.  The myth is out there -- you need a new HDTV before February 2009.  The cable companies and TV stores, I'm sure, aren't going to try too hard to ...

To Vista or Not to Vista

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

As I posted last week, XP is here to stay, so the war won't be as fierce as I first thought after June 30, 2008. However, you still have to make a decision -- XP or Vista? For home users it will be difficult to get XP, since ...

US Passport Application Wizard & Firefox/PDF Issue

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

I've had getting a passport on my To Do List for about a year now, and I wanted to get the application done. I visited the Passport Application Wizard, thinking it would make the process very quick and easy. I almost always use Firefox (2.0.0.14) now, and this ...

Strange printing issues and fixes

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.0 (actually a subsequent automatic update to it) causes some HP printers to have some large problems and Microsoft has been unwilling to care or do anything about it. I believe this will cause some major problems in the future as it becomes necessary to install ...