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Streaming TV and Movies with a Roku Media Player

April 8, 2011

When I first published this article in April 2011 there were three Roku models from which to choose. At this writing (December 2011) there are now four models and some of the features have changed. This week I helped someone determine which model would work best given their existing TV and internet equipment and I’ve [...]

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Sample of Streaming on a Roku with a Standard TV

April 8, 2011

This is a video of a news program streaming over a Qwest direct connection (7mbps) using a Roku HD media player and a 6 year-old TV. The Roku was simple and easy to setup and works beautifully with Netflix instant play and Hulu Plus. In this example, the Roku is wired to the router (not [...]

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Removing Malware System Tools 2011 or Security Shield Clones

December 30, 2010

It is getting more and more difficult for virus and malware scanners to intercept malicious software in a timely manner. Even though people are diligently keeping their virus software up-to-date these insidious, destructive, time-wasting and costly viruses are proliferating at an exponential rate and software companies simply cannot keep up with the information needed to [...]

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The Downside of Free WordPress Themes and Plugins

September 28, 2010

WordPress is licenced under a GNU General Public Licence. That means it is free and as a general rule you are free to copy, modify, make derivatives works and share it…freely. And that’s all generally good. I like free; especially when you can get a top quality, extremely flexible and versatile product like WordPress. But [...]

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Are You Getting Viagra Spam From Your Family and Friends?

September 25, 2010

You can no longer be lazy about the passwords you use for internet logins and especially on your email accounts. In the last few weeks I’ve received at least two or three emails per week from a friend or family or colleague trying to sell me Viagra. Of course this spam wasn’t really sent by [...]

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WordPress Backup | How To Do It Correctly

June 15, 2010

Postscript 12 Jul 2010: After writing this post I was engaged to manage the upgrade of 6 wordpress blogs. During that assignment we discovered a problem with the Bei Fen backup plugin. Basically it works the first time you do a backup but it fails on subsequent backups. You won’t know that it has failed [...]

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How A Plumber Uses Microsoft Project

May 3, 2010

Photo courtesy of Nico Van Der Merwe My friend The Plumber had a huge project for which he wanted to bid. It was a big project…bigger than any job he had managed before (he’s a young guy). He was confident he could do the job and he asked me how to use Excel to put [...]

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Good Free Virus or Anti-Malware Software

December 6, 2009

People are forever asking me: What is the best virus software? Best wireless router? Best accounting software? Best computer. Best this. Best that. There is no best anything. Best is relative to your needs, your budget, your nous, you technical skills and in the end it all boils down to some sort of experience. Mine. [...]

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New FTC Guidelines – What is the Problem?

December 3, 2009

If you are involved with internet marketing and in particular affiliate marketing or if you provide product reviews on the internet then you probably familiar with the uproar about the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new advertising guidelines. The guidelines are basically about how the FTC will continue to use a 30-year old act to [...]

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Outlook On Vista Keeps Restarting

November 26, 2009

Suddenly for no good reason my Outlook 2003 (running on Vista) keeps restarting itself. When a problem like this suddenly starts happening you just know it is probably caused by some other software that you’ve recently installed or a Microsoft update. If you have installed some new software, uninstall it if you can and see [...]

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