Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Top twelve things to do when starting up a website.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

internet website

1. Come up with an idea of what your site is going to do or what type of content it is going to have.

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Top 10 ways to speed up your computer

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

People often ask me “how can I speed up my computer?” or say “My computer is running very slow”.

Here are some things that you can do to speed up your computer.

1. Restart
Restart Windows
Restarting your computer fixes %90 of issues and will free up memory from applications that are no longer using it. You should restart your computer once a week at minimum.

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Installing a self signed ssl certificate on a Palm Treo

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

PalmPalm Treo SSL

What You will need:

1. Palm Certificate Modification Tool

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Troubleshooting internet connectivity problems.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

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Have you ever opened up your web browser and seen the “The page cannot be displayed” or “unable to connect to server” message? Having internet connectivity problems can be frustrating. Here is a guide to help you get through them.

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Running fsck on the root filesystem using Knoppix

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Knoppix

I recently had a Fedora server with an LVM filesystem on the root partition. Since you can’t run fsck on a mounted disk and you can’t unmount the root file system, (more…)

Intel Core i7 cpu

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Intel Core i7

The Intel Core i7 CPUs are out! That’s right the new Intel Core i7, built on the new Nehalem architecture, sports some cool new features such as (more…)

Backup your Windows computer for free.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Backup Software

Backing up the data that is stored on your computer is very important for several reasons.
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Tips for installing Microsoft Exchange server 2007

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

There are plenty of guides out there for installing Exchange server 2k7 so I thought I would provide tips that I found useful instead of writing a complete guide.

Exchange 2007

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Top 9 Best tools for IT professionals.

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Here is a list of some of the most useful tools that I use on a daily basis as an IT professional.

1 Spiceworks
Spiceworks is a free IT management software that includes things like (more…)

Speed tests – are you really getting the speed your ISP promised?

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Test your Internet connection speed at Speedtest.net

Ever wondered how fast your internet connection is? Ever wondered if your really getting the 30mb FIOS connection that they say you are? Here’s how to tell. And some tips to improve your connection speed.
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