Category Archives: Tech Tips

Vintage Camera Repair ~ Tower 43 / Nicca 3S

After film testing my Tower 43, I was getting pictures back from the Lab that the frames were only half exposed and with an obvious hunk of broken film wedged in the area between the image aperture and the pressure plate. Continue reading

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Desktop Pop-up Reminder for Win XP, 7

A little trick I learned to add a pop up reminder on your Desktop on Windows XP Continue reading

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Thanks again Microsoft… :-(

I recently updated our computers that have Windows 7 to the SP1. I see no difference except our happy little network is shot, in that Cheryl can’t print anymore Continue reading

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Disappointment with DirecTv.

We love our DirecTV…. but…. and I mean a Big BUT… we recently had to deal with Customer Service/equipment/tech on the phone. Continue reading

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Free Virus removal Forum

I recently picked up a nasty little virus cruising the Internet on my NetBook. I was using FireFox so I was surprised. It was what is called “Scare Ware” or “Fake-AV”. It presented itself as a virus protection program scanning my system, a ‘fake’ Windows Security Shield with a balloon pop-up, Continue reading

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Google Updater pest

I was cleaning out my task manager, stopping and removing unnecessary programs running in the background and noticed GoogleUpdate.exe.  This is a program that periodically checks for updates to Google products like Earth, Tool bar, etc and uses unnecessary resources. … Continue reading

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Missing icons in Taskbar

You may have found this blog searching for an answer to why your taskbar icons disappear occasionally after a startup. Continue reading

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