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This one is for fun. If you haven’t seen this, you are not going to believe your own eyes! Watch the second contestant (red shirt, 40 seconds into the video). The word amazing doesn’t truly describe what you are about to see!
Professor Randy says: Because of YouTube over six million people have seen this video. Before YouTube the kid in the red shirt would have gone unknown!
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One of the most common complaints that I hear from my clients is that of a poor Wi-Fi Internet connection. There are many possible factors that could be causing the problem, so all of these factors need to be checked one by one. Here is the diagnostic process that I use:
1) Is the ISP (Internet Service Provider) at fault? To check this, plug the computer into the router via an ethernet cable (wired connection). If the Internet connects without a problem then your ISP is not the culprit!
2) Do you have a bad router? The router (or combined modem/router) may be the problem. Do you have the latest model from your ISP? Is the router that you are using old? Try a different router or if possible ask your ISP to give you a new one!
3) Is the router properly set up? Is the router stuck in some corner of the house instead of in a middle open area (if so, try repositioning the router). Access the router through the computer browser and change the transmitting channel. Is the router near a wireless phone, baby monitor, or microwave? These can all cause radio frequency interference.
4) What wireless protocol is being used by router and computer? If your router is transmitting at 802.11n (the latest and greatest protocol), and your computer is receiving with a 802.11b/g card (receiver) then your connection will suffer. You will not receive the maximum benefits of 802.11n (faster speed and greater range) unless both transmitting router and receiving computer have all 802.11n protocol.
5) How many extra protocols are installed on your Network Adapter? Access your Network Adapter in Control Panel then right click it and select properties. See all those checked protocols? Disable them all except for Internet Protocol Version 4 (most users don’t need the other protocols but some may). Extra protocols are just wasting your network connection and will slow it down!
Professor Randy says: There is nothing like connecting without wires, but radio waves can be tricky! Solve any wi-fi connection problem by practicing the above diagnostic process.
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Enjoy the latest tech information by following the links!
1) Show Us The Data. (It’s Ours After All.)
2) Michael Dell Looks Beyond PC Business
3) Innocent Man Accused Of Child Pornography After Neighbor Pirates His WiFi
4) Amazon’s Trouble Raises Cloud Computing Doubts
5) Netflix To Become Largest Subscription Entertainment Service In U.S.
6) Why You Should Care About The iPhone Location-Tracking Issue
7) Are IT Departments Too Slow To Patch Windows?
8) Chrome Notebooks Confirmed To Be Released June/July
9) Apple Signs Cloud Deal With Warner Music
10) The Story Of E-Waste: What Happens To Tech Once It’s Trash
11) Kindle’s Secret Sibling: Amazon’s Android Tablet
12) How To Leverage Teaching To Improve Your Business
13) Sophos: Crime And Fraud Is Rampant On Facebook
14) Five Reasons Why Twitter Will Kill TweetDeck
15) Five Common HDTV Questions, Answered
Professor Randy quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not”.
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This video and song express what I believe to be the true meaning of Easter. Enjoy the day!
Professor Randy quotes Clarence W. Hall: “Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.”
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I sign up for many online services, and I always have to give my email address in order to become a member. I hate doing this because with every new membership comes a deluge of inbox spam, registration requests, and other mailing list junk.
But those days are over. Now there is “Ten Minute Mail”! With Ten Minute Mail you don’t even need to put your name on your email account. No personal data is required, nor are there any time consuming registration blanks to fill out.
Ten Minute Mail supplies you with a ready to go, disposable email address. The address becomes inactive after ten minutes (you can request more time if you need it). Every time you need a new email address just go to the Ten Minute Mail site again and it will automatically generate one for you. How cool is that?
Professor Randy says: Don’t give out your personal email address every time that you connect to an online service. Avoid the ensuing hassles by using a temporary email address that will self destruct in ten minutes. Check out Ten Minute Mail!
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The tech news as always is fast and furious! So that you don’t get left behind, here are fifteen links that will keep you “in the loop”. Enjoy!
1) Free App to Accept Credit Cards
2) Best Buy Gearing Up For Nationwide iPad2 Promotion Today (4/17/2011)
3) The Android Explosion: How Google’s Freewheeling Ecosystem Threatens The iPhone
4) Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer?
5) 50 Tech Facebook Pages You Should Be Liking
6) Evolve Or Die: IE10 Preview Won’t Work On Vista
7) Adobe To Stream Live Video To The iPad
8) Toshiba To Launch Self-Erasing Hard Drives
9) Flip Founder And Former CEO Jonathan Kaplan Talks About Iconic Digital Video Camera’s Demise
10) Windows 8 Secrets: News From Around The Web
11) Google Apps: 5 Hidden Calendar Tools And Tricks
12) IE9 FAQ: How To Install, Uninstall, And Tweak The Final Release
13) Guest Post: Attack Of The Hack-A-Mack
15) I Clicked On A Link That I Shouldn’t Have. What Should I Do Now?
Professor Randy quotes Benjamin Franklin: “One today is worth two tomorrows; what I am to be, I am now becoming.”
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The other day I showed you this amazing Samsung commercial, and today I want to show you one more. Like I said in the initial post, Samsung advertising is so powerful! I know that their products are good, and their TV commercials are awesome! Makes me want to go out and buy everything that I see. Check out this second great video:
Professor Randy says: It’s not enough to have a good/great product. You have to present it to potential buyers in an appealing way. Samsung certainly does just that!
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Today the power of Samsung advertising. I don’t know how good their products are, but their TV commercials are awesome! Makes me want to go out and buy their product. Check out this great video:
Professor Randy says: It’s not enough to have a good/great product. You have to present it to potential buyers in an appealing way. Samsung has certainly done just that!
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The other day I picked up a six year old computer from a client. The computer would not boot and it was obvious that the SATA hard drive was gone.
I replaced the failed SATA with a brand new SATA and was ready to install Windows 7, but the new drive was not recognized by the BIOS. The drive powered up, the data cable was good, I tried both SATA ports, everything was seated properly, but the BIOS showed that no drive was present. What the heck?
Then it hit me! I was working with an older motherboard (six year old computer). The SATA controller speed on this older mobo was 150 MB/s (the initial speed for a SATA 1 hard drive). The new drive that I had installed was a SATA 2 drive which runs at 300 MB/s. It simply would not work with the older motherboards 150 MB/s controller.
Luckily the new drive had an onboard compatibility jumper. I put a jumper on pins 5-6 which enabled the SATA 2 drive to run at 150 MB/s (data transfer speed). The new drive was now recognized by the BIOS and I was on my way to installing Windows 7!!
Professor Randy says: Be aware of data transfer speed when installing a new SATA drive on an older PC. The new drive may not show up in the BIOS until you match it’s speed with that of the motherboard controller.
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These fifteen links will take you to some great tech information. I hope that you find something to your liking. Enjoy!
1) Top 10 Micro-Apps For Windows And Mac OS X
2) Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Microsoft Empire?
3) LizaMoon Virus Infection: A Blow By Blow Account
4) Samsung’s Series 9 Laptop Makes A Statement
5) Comcast Wants To Fix Your PCs And Gadgets
6) 5 Simple Web Apps For Saving Time At Work
7) Looking For A New Camera? Listen To This Podcast!
8) Top 4 Reasons Why People Get Phished
9) One-Third Of Teens Plan To Buy An iPhone Soon
10) Do Your Boss A Favor: Don’t Work So Much
11) Forget June: Microsoft Already Pushing IE9 Via Windows Update
12) Apple vs. All The Rest: Every Mobile App Store Compared
13) 10 Things That Simply Need To Be In iOS 5
15) Why Am I Not Getting The Email My Friend Sends Me?
Professor Randy quotes John Wooden: “When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.”
