Thursday, April 26, 2012
Windows SkyDrive- Update your Old account to save to 25gb
If you had an old Microsoft Windows SkyDrive account for cloud storage, you need to go into it and select, "Keep my 25 GB of storage" or it will revert back to 7gb of free storage.
Seems like they are going down in size. Which is interesting since they just announced Google Drive.... go figure.
Getting ads on your Android Phone?
Getting annoying ads on your Android / Google phone?
Quite a number of ads are using push technology to push ads to you but never asked your permision to allow these ads to be placed on your phone as NOTIFICATIONS!
When I started getting these adsas Noticiations, like an ad that was important (how annoying), I did some research and what you really need to do is find the aaplication you downloaded and uninstall it.
I used a program called Addons Detector which I downloaded to my phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.denper.addonsdetector&feature=related_apps
. Allowed it to run and install. I then selected Scan from the big middle button, then selected AddOns.
What next came up was a list of applications which use addon programs. Most use Googel Analytics (that is ok at the moment). I was looking for any program with "AIRPUSH" which is used to send ads out to customers (seems to give the vendors lots of money).
Which app was it? SpeechTrans by Nuance was the BIG culprit, so I uninstalled it by hitting the home button, settings button, manage Apps, selecting the program and hit UNINSTALL.
Shame on Nuance for doing this push ad to their customers!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Mark Twain Autobiography for FREE
Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens, also known as a 6th cousin to me (that is what the family says anyway), wrote his autobiography with the previso that it not be published for 100 years. So it is now out on Amazon, etc. but wouldn't you like to review or even read it in it's entirety for FREE?
The Mark Twain Project has it listed in it's entirety for FREE - Link, along with the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : an electronic text and the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians, and Other Unfinished Stories .
Another great present from NetSurferNews!
The Mark Twain Project has it listed in it's entirety for FREE - Link, along with the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : an electronic text and the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians, and Other Unfinished Stories .
Another great present from NetSurferNews!
Kindle for Free?
Want to use Kindle books but want to try it first? Or maybe you do not want the shell out $189 for a reader?
At Amazon, there are Kindle applications for Ipad, MAC, Windows PC, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7, so you can read Kindle books on just about any Internet enabled device!
There are hundreds of FREE books such as out of print or promotional books for free to download- Link, such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ,Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll,The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, etc.
This way you can try it for FREE and see if you like the e-book format on your IPhone, Droid, Blackberry, or even netbook. What a way to save money!
At Amazon, there are Kindle applications for Ipad, MAC, Windows PC, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7, so you can read Kindle books on just about any Internet enabled device!
There are hundreds of FREE books such as out of print or promotional books for free to download- Link, such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ,Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll,The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, etc.
This way you can try it for FREE and see if you like the e-book format on your IPhone, Droid, Blackberry, or even netbook. What a way to save money!
Friday, January 1, 2010
Sanyo VPC-HD2000 parts (replace the remote)
As many of you know, we have been writing (and using) the last 2 High Definition Sanyo camcorders (the Sanyo VPC-HD1000, VPC-HD1010 and now the VPC-HD2000). The Sanyo VPC-HD2000A (A is for the US version) is a fabulous camera / camcorder! See our review at NetSurferNews.com
But when you are taking several hours of taping each week, giving it the "use" test, things tend to get LOST. And the remote is very very small- about 1 inch square.
My Editor has now lost 3 of them, over time.... he loses lots of things, so this is nothing new (grin). And several years ago, we asked if we could get a replacement and Sanyo said, "No they were not sold separately".
So I tried again, and things have changed! They now have a company called PacParts.com that will sell some of these hard to find items for the Sanyo HD2000 video camera. And in fact the remote will work on all 3 cameras (you can change the code so it will not change the other camera if you have 2 camcorders shooting at one time).
The remote for the HD-2000 was only $28.67 and it is located in Gardena, CA (south of Los Angeles), so we picked it up and now all is well again with the Remotes and the Sanyo HD-2000!
But when you are taking several hours of taping each week, giving it the "use" test, things tend to get LOST. And the remote is very very small- about 1 inch square.
My Editor has now lost 3 of them, over time.... he loses lots of things, so this is nothing new (grin). And several years ago, we asked if we could get a replacement and Sanyo said, "No they were not sold separately".
So I tried again, and things have changed! They now have a company called PacParts.com that will sell some of these hard to find items for the Sanyo HD2000 video camera. And in fact the remote will work on all 3 cameras (you can change the code so it will not change the other camera if you have 2 camcorders shooting at one time).
The remote for the HD-2000 was only $28.67 and it is located in Gardena, CA (south of Los Angeles), so we picked it up and now all is well again with the Remotes and the Sanyo HD-2000!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Internet Explorer 8 not Display Browsing History - Fix
When you upgrade to Internet Explorer 8, and all of the suddent you cannot get a drop dwon in the address bar to display your previously visited websites, there is a fix.
Go to Tools, Internet Options, select the Content tab at the top. Then select Auto Complete, and under "Use Address Bar For", select on "Browsing History" and also "Favorites", and your browsing history will again show up under the address bar! Then IE8 is now fixed for remembering your previously visited websites.
Go to Tools, Internet Options, select the Content tab at the top. Then select Auto Complete, and under "Use Address Bar For", select on "Browsing History" and also "Favorites", and your browsing history will again show up under the address bar! Then IE8 is now fixed for remembering your previously visited websites.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Removing Malware
It happens to everyone now and again, no matter how hard you try- or how many Antivirus, Spyware cleaners, etc you intall. One of our PC's got the "Your system is Infected" as your desktop wallpaper display, you can no longer get to the task manager to shut down any unwanted programs, etc. You run through several antivirus programs such as Vipre, McAfee Enterprise, Trend Micro Online (House Call) and Webroot Spysweeper with Antivirus and all to no avail. It is still there and you cannot change the desktop wallpaper to remove it, even turning off System restore and going into Safe mode (it was a Win XP computer).
How To Clean this Malware
First off, make certain everything is backed up (it was). There is an excellant How-to over at GeeksToGo.com under their Forum, Security » Virus, Spyware and Trojan Removal. They have a great Malware Cleaning guide which I followed:
Malware and Spyware Cleaning Guide.
The steps are as follows and they are very well scripted and well thought out:
1.Preparation- Install a Temporary File Cleaner and run it- TFC (Temp File Cleaner)
2.Preparation- Create a System Restore point using the utility SysRestorePoint
3.Preparation- Make a Registry Backup using ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT)
4. Step One- Scan for Malware/Adware/Spyware using Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
There are a few more steps on GeeksToGo but after doing the steps 1 to 4 the PC was cleaned up, the desktop wallpaper "Your system is Infected" was destroyed, and we could get to the Task Manager again. All is well in Computerdom, again!!
How To Clean this Malware
First off, make certain everything is backed up (it was). There is an excellant How-to over at GeeksToGo.com under their Forum, Security » Virus, Spyware and Trojan Removal. They have a great Malware Cleaning guide which I followed:
Malware and Spyware Cleaning Guide.
The steps are as follows and they are very well scripted and well thought out:
1.Preparation- Install a Temporary File Cleaner and run it- TFC (Temp File Cleaner)
2.Preparation- Create a System Restore point using the utility SysRestorePoint
3.Preparation- Make a Registry Backup using ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT)
4. Step One- Scan for Malware/Adware/Spyware using Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
There are a few more steps on GeeksToGo but after doing the steps 1 to 4 the PC was cleaned up, the desktop wallpaper "Your system is Infected" was destroyed, and we could get to the Task Manager again. All is well in Computerdom, again!!
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