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I’ve noticed my printer having trouble with large files, especially long word documents. It would print pages with paragraphs missing or some other parts missing, while it did print short documents ok. My guess was that there was a spool problem or communication problem. What’s stranger, is that documents printed in best quality (instead of [...]

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As soon as I got my new Dell laptop, I set it up to my likings. One of the things I did, is setting what closing the lid does. In my case, I’ve set it up to hibernate. But strange as it is, I saw that when I get back at morning or after a [...]

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This is a Dell laptop review. I needed a new laptop for mainly office tasks, video editing, video conferences, etc. Its specs make it a good gaming laptop as well. You can find the technical specs further down this page. Here are my Dell laptop specs. If you’re looking for a good laptop,  these specs [...]

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Addthis is a nice free service that lets you display a sharing button on your site. Generate the code here, and put it in your footer (or other location of your choice), and you’re all set. To align the button to the center, simply add a little piece of CSS to the DIV tag. You [...]

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Firefox (FF) is the browser of my choice for a few years now. I have watched it grow from 2% to 20% and 30%  (USA and EUROPE respectively) and it will get more popular in time. Just a fact, did you know that Firefox is really not a fox but some kind of a red [...]

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The other day I got a used IBM Thinkpad R50e, and the first thing I did is to erase all the programs installed that I didn’t want. I know a bit about computers and of course I didn’t erase any system programs that come with the IBM, or at least I think I didn’t… Anyway, [...]

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“Advanced System Care” is a one-click freeware tool to help protect, repair, clean, maintain and optimize your PC. It has some nice features like internet connection optimizer, ram (memory) optimizer and more. I think my system worked faster afterward, or it’s just psychological. Bottom end, this single tool does the job of several ones. Here [...]

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You don’t need to do much in order to infect your computer with some kind of adware or spyware. Viruses, adware or spyware can sometimes be just annoying but some can be very nasty, resulting in data loss, time loss, fatal computer failure and so on. The best way to protect yourself is surfing responsibly [...]

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Gmail manager is one of the most useful addons to quickly check your Gmail mail account via Firefox browser. But from time to time, as Firefox updates itself, there are compatibility problems . Gmail manager version 0.5.7.4 , which is the last officially released version, can not login to the account. The fix is either: [...]

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Whats the last thing you want to see on your Windows operated computer? the blue screen. Sorry to say, but that should almost certainly happen to every one who uses Windows,  at some point or the other,  as it happened to me a few days ago. I got a blue screen with the error message: [...]

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