Entries by Bob Appleby (1525)

Tuesday
Aug242010

Lenovo Announces their first Netbook to use Intel's Atom N550 Processor

Following Intel's announcement of the new Atom N550 dual-core processor, Lenovo is one of the first to be out with an IdeaPad netbook model that makes use of it. The 1.50 GHz clocked Atom N550 is based on the second-generation Atom architecture.

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Tuesday
Aug242010

Enjoying the beginning of Football Season

Opinion: Last year I had a little extra wiring done around the house which included some extra power and cabling, both networking and simple cable for TV. I know this is just a little indulgent but I do love my technology and how easy it is to make it work for you!

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Monday
Aug232010

Fall is going to be an exciting time for us hardware geeks

Two things will be be going on this fall and Christmas season, first Intel is releasing its new dual-core Atom processor for Netbooks and we are about to see Netbook Manufacturers like Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba and others releasing new models with this processor installed. This will begin to take the Netbook for internet browsing status to a system with a little more clout. The dual core will help manufacturer’s provide more energy efficient models for us to play with and hopefully we will see a whole slew of these products with full size keyboards and 11.6-inch screens. This will be a great boon for someone that wants a reasonably priced Netbook that will allow them to do more functions more easily…

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Monday
Aug162010

Intel Showed its Q4 SSD Roadmap and We Are Excited!

Intel Released it Q4 Roadmap that shows some very exciting SSD (Solid State Drive) products. These products will be based on 25nm NAND flash memory chips and sold under the Intel X25-M, X18-M (mainstream) and X25-V (value) brands. The four drives will continue to carry the company internal codename “Postville”, with the same feature set as the 34nm Postville SSDs, except for the 25nm NAND chips, native data encryption, SMART, and higher performance.

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Thursday
Aug122010

Dual Screens on 55TC Motherboard without a Video Card Addition

It is possible to have a duel screen system running with the Intel 55TC board. The system offers DVI-D, VGA and HDMI inputs. These 3 inputs can be used in a duel nature fashion, So for duel screens you can either you in the inputs in this combination:

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Thursday
Aug122010

Logitech Unveils Sleek Keyboard and Mouse Combo

Today Logitech introduced the Logitech Wireless Combo MK520, a full-size mouse and keyboard combo that puts comfort and control at your fingertips. The keyboard gives you the room to type comfortably while concave, low-profile keys cradle your fingertips. The laser mouse feels good in either hand thanks to its contoured design with soft rubber side grips.

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Wednesday
Aug042010

Office for Mac 2011 Hitting Store Shelves This October: Qualifying new purchases of Office 2008 will include a full upgrade to Office 2011.

REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 2, 2010 — Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, the next version of the leading productivity suite for the Mac, will be available in more than 100 countries around the world at the end of October. The suite will come in two editions to purchase at retail — Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. For better alignment across platforms, the Office 2011 pricing and edition options map closer with Office for the Windows operating system. In addition, starting today, if customers purchase Office 2008 for Mac, they will be able to upgrade to Office 2011 when it is available at no additional cost through the Microsoft Office for Mac Technology Guarantee Program.

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Friday
Jul302010

Windows XP Understanding Downgrade Rights

The availability of Windows 7 presents a great opportunity for you to consult with your customers and grow your business. With higher levels of reliability, security, performance, administration, and support offered by Windows 7, you can make a strong business case for the Windows 7 operating system.

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Friday
Jul302010

IE8 Error when doing Microsoft’s Automatic Updates

Scott has noted that if you are updating XP and have selected IE8 as one of the downloads, you will most likely get a run.dll error after you reboot and you will still have IE6/IE7 on your system.

You have to do yet another update and reinstall IE 8 again and this should resolve the error.

This does not happen if you run IE8 from a standalone install, only through Windows Updates.

Hope This Helps

Scott

Friday
Jul302010

Signed On with NUUO Surveillance Solutions

Computer Connections has completed training and testing with NUUO a company that is dedicated to providing a stable and high-performance digital surveillance systems. Three key functions of any security surveillance solution are to provide setting and searching, guarding, and warning. NUUO's successful record of 13800 installation points in 60 countries, as well as its use by industries ranging from mass transit to education, as well as government projects, banks, hospitals, hotels, casinos, and enterprises all prove that NUUO solutions can make all three functions easy for end-users.

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Friday
Jul302010

Digital Home is Back in the News

Microsoft Hohm Joins Forces With Blue Line Innovations to Help Consumers Track Energy Use Down to the Minute and the Dollar REDMOND, Wash. — July 27, 2010 — Tracking your energy use and saving money just got easier today. Microsoft and Blue Line Innovations have joined forces to give consumers real-time information about their energy use down to the minute and the dollar. The companies have combined Blue Line’s popular energy tracking device with Microsoft Hohm to give consumers information about their household energy use — and its cost — at a glance, with easy-to-use graphs that show where you can save the most energy and money.

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Friday
Jul302010

15 Minutes of Fame

Well, one of the big items floating though the blogosphere today was an posting in YouTube’s daily blog stating that you will now be able to produce up to 15 minute video that you will be able to post to YouTube. So for you guys that bumping up against the limit here is you go. Enjoy!

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Thursday
Jul292010

Security Cameras and Network Imaging Servers

This is just a quick note to let you know that I will be concentrating in August on discussing our Security Camera, DVR and IP MegaPixel Camera solutions. There are a lot of things you need to consider while designing a system and I’ll be presenting some of the solutions that we have come up with and providing you with some talking points with our staff to help you develop the right plan for you. I plan on having Jude and Nick who have so much work on these projects of the past two years to share some of their ideas and insights to this exploding market. With the increased need for security of your homes and businesses, protecting your employees and loved ones and tracking employee work habits and other problems these products will help you save money and give you peace of mind. We are also working with our new Gemini Imaging Server system. This is a breakthrough product that is a godsend to any IT department that has to maintain groups of systems and repurpose them every so often. We developed this system in house to solve a need for cloning a workstation image for our K-12 clients where we would need anywhere from 10 to 1000 machines imaged with the same configuration or slight variations. Our Gemini Server does this and much more. This product is perfect for schools, medical facilities, manufacturing and large corporate entities that buy systems in bulk and need to get them in place. It is also useful for small and large disaster recovery situations as well. This any many more ideas will be delved into so be sure to subscribe to this site so you don’t miss out on any of this information as we post it.

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Thursday
Jul292010

Will the $139 Kindle finally entice you to become and eBook user?

August 18th is the release date for this new version in the Amazon Kindle product line. This new Kindle will only be WiFi enabled but most of will not be unhappy with that. It is purported to have better contrast, up 50% over the current models. The unit is physically smaller and lighter but still sports the 6-inch screen. And if you are a speed reader the screens are turning 20% faster as well. Storage has doubled, and battery life is said to be good for up to an entire month. They have even included new custom fonts that should make the work and letters more crisp and natural looking.

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Sunday
Jul252010

Don’t be afraid to make adjustments to Microsoft Office

One of the things that I am constantly doing is making adjustments to my computer to make work better and have available all of the application tools that I use day in, day out. This involves loading the right software on a system that I am going to use as well as adjusting that software when necessary to the way I need to use it.

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Sunday
Jul252010

Channel 9 – A Community for developers and users

With so much video available from so many sources how do you choose what you are going to watch? I know it’s hard but I keep up with most the content that interests me by using iTunes to collect the Podcasts or going directly to the content provider’s site to access the information. Microsoft has created several “communities” that contain information about products, how to use them and discussions of projects and events surrounding the software giant. Channel 9 is one of those communities. One way of keeping up with new content coming from this site is to subscribe to its RSS feed. If you are new to RSS and the ability to have site postings sent to you automatically then you are in for a real treat.

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Saturday
Jul242010

Are Solid State Drives Better Than Spinning Platter Based Drives?

This is a subject that we have been musing over quite a bit lately when talking to our clients and one that you will of course have to answer for yourself based on hopefully the information that I am about to give you. The two primary things that you need to consider are how much storage do you need and how much do you want to pay to decrease data access times.

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Wednesday
Jul212010

Blogging Pitfalls: How to Not Abandon Your Blog | BloggingPro

If you are thinking of starting a blog or are currently working with one, this article points to some really good insights that are important to keep in mind. Be sure you keep up with so that it shows some activity. Otherwise people will think that it is abandoned. Then you will lose followers and eventually you’ll probably lose interest. Take a few minutes and peruse this great article.

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Monday
Jul192010

Shimming – a new con used to steal your ID and other info…

I’m not sure if there is anything that you can do to protect yourself from this kind of attack except stop using ATM machines. Shimming is the newest con designed to skim our credit card number, PIN and other info when you swipe your card through a reader in an ATM machine.

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Monday
Jul192010

My wife made an interesting comment to me this weekend

Kathy has become another convert into the digital age. She spent the weekend reading Janet Evanovich’s new book Sizzling Sixteen on, wait for this, a Kindle…

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