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Did you recently install Microsoft Security Essentials to protect your computer, and right after installing it, your computer slowed to a crawl? Well, the good news is, you’re not going crazy. It is completely possible for this to happen. Why? Because for some reason, Microsoft made it so that if you are running MSE on [...]

If you’re getting the message, “iTunes requires a computer with a G4, G5 or Intel processor”, then that means you’re dealing with an older Mac that has a G3 processor or earlier that is not compatible with the latest version of iTunes. What’s the fix? Well, you have to dig around the Internet to find [...]

I was sitting in Starbucks doing some work when I saw a girl going over her notes on her Mac in MS Word, but with a very cool layout…a layout that not only looked like a real notebook, but that also had tabs! Just having the notebook layout may be cool for students, but it’s [...]

I have a client who bought MS Office Home and Business 2010 for the list price of $279.99 from Best Buy. We installed it, and she ended up not liking it because it was too different from MS Office 2003, which is what she was used to. So I uninstalled it for her and put [...]

I recently bought Pages ’09 (for only $19.99, btw) for a client via the Mac App Store on my Mac, because you need at least Mac OS X 10.6 to get the Mac App Store on your computer, which he did not have. And my client wanted to buy Pages separately. He did not want [...]

Today I attempted to purchase an Apple application called, Pages (Mac’s equivalent to MS Word), on my Mac via the Mac App Store. Pages is part of Apple’s iLife software suite. It’s a great suite and is MUCH less expensive than M$’s Office. Anyway, since my client does not have the latest version of Apple’s [...]

Is an application that you are using on your Mac not responding? Do you get the notorious beach ball spinning around, not allowing you to do anything with that app? Or maybe your Mac is slower than usual and you’re not sure why. Well, in either case, it could simply be a matter of an [...]

Mozilla recently released a beta version of Firefox 4, and it’s ready for download. The only thing that I will mention as a precaution is that if you have a Mac, I would not suggest downloading or installing it just yet. Here’s why…

Microsoft is still in the testing stages with their latest version of Internet Explorer 9, but you if you feel brave and want to give it a shot, simply go here:

I just had a client who was infected by this nasty spyware. No, it was not a virus. It was spyware acting like an antivirus program. First and foremost, never…

Are you creating a document in MS Word (Mac or PC), and have a title page that you don’t want your main header or footer to be on, or you want a different header or footer to be on the first page of the document? Well, there is an easy way to achieve that: Here [...]

If you’ve gone to Abobe.com via Firefox and have tried to install the Flash Player plugin for Firefox, but it doesn’t install (even though it looks like it did; it’s still not viewing all Flash objects correctly), then here is the fix:

I know this may be a simple task, but this feature is kind of hidden. If you start a project in iMovie ’09, don’t do anything with it, and then go back into iMovie ’09 later, you’ll be working under the same project name that you just created, not a new one. It saves whatever [...]

When you play a video in Quicktime, does the video screen turn green even though you can hear the audio fine? Here’s the fix:

If you can’t open iTunes when you click on it or if you can’t close it, then it could be a couple of things. Here they are:

Do you need to merge some PDF files into one file, but you do not feel like shelling out the cash needed for Adobe Acrobat? Well, you’re in luck. Whether you are running OS X 10.5 Leopard, or an earlier OS, I have a solution for you. Here are the solutions:

I just found out about this very cool free web-based service. It’s a website where you can brainstorm and create mind maps for free and share them with co-workers, friends, family, etc… Check it out:

If any of you are a multi-tasker like myself, and you usually have a few windows of Notepad (PC) or TextEdit (Mac) open, then I have a solution for you. A client of mine told me about a Notepad program that has tabs for PC, and then I found one for Mac. Here they are:

I was losing space on the c drive of my laptop, and found that over 2 gigs was being taken up by Windows Desktop Search, and as far as I know, it keeps accumulating over time, as it keeps indexing. No other program needs Windows Desktop Search to run, so there are no worries about [...]

Having problems merging cells in Excel 2008? There are at least two solutions to this:

My sister just told me about a cool free software for writing screenplays. It’s like Final Draft, except it’s free. There is both a Mac and PC version. Get it here.

If you have a Mac, it is important that you perform a Software Update every so often. You can actually set it so that your Mac automatically downloads the updates and notifies you when it does. I explain how to do that in the video below. I also show you how to Repair Disk Permissions, [...]

Just in case anyone wants to know what each version of Mac OS X is called, here is the list: 10.0 – Cheetah 10.1 – Puma 10.2 – Jaguar 10.3 – Panther 10.4 – Tiger 10.5 – Leopard More info here: Versions of Mac OS X explained

Is your PC running slow or giving you a lot of popups? Spybot is one of the programs that I use to handle that type of situation. You can download this free software for free at www.download.com Here is a video that I made that shows you exactly how to perform a scan on your [...]

Does your Internet Explorer keep looping back to the RunOnce page every time you try to set its search engine settings? A quick change in the registry will fix it. Here’s the code if you want to make the registry patch yourself:

Here is a bunch of free software for you: * Free YouTube to iPod and PSP Converter 2.8.3.1(recently updated) * Free Video Dub 1.2.1.1(just released) * Free Audio Dub 1.2.1.1(just released) * Free Video to Flash Converter 3.1.3.1(recently updated) * Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 2.4.3.1(recently updated) * Free DVD Decrypter 1.2.3.1(just released) * Free [...]

Check it out: Signature Software Demo Just don’t make it look like your signature on your checks! LOL.

I just found a free HTML editor that will allow you to create your own website. It’s called Nvu. Download here

Most likely either the windows user name was changed after it was set up, or the user name consists of two words with at least one space in between (TI does not like spaces in user names). Here is the work around: 1. While logged in to your normal Windows user, go to START>CONTROL PANEL>USER [...]

Try this: 1. Uninstall Quicktime 7 2. Reinstall QT 6.5.2 (instead of the newest version 7) 3. Go to EDIT>PREFERENCES>QUICKTIME PREFERENCES 4. Click the Advanced tab 5. Under the VIDEO section, select GDI (safe mode) 6. Click OK 7. Reinstall QT 7 on top of QT 6.5.2 and then…Presto! Thanks, Scott. NOTE: This might work [...]

If you want to make PDF files, and you don’t feel like shelling out the dough for Adobe Acrobat, then you can download and install PDF995 (www.pdf995.com). Go here, http://www.pdf995.com/download.html, and download and install the printer driver first, and then the Free converter. After both are installed, to create a PDF file, open up the [...]

Do you get Quicktime errors when you try to play an embedded multimedia file when viewing a website with Firefox? Have you already tried downloading and installing the latest version of Quicktime? Well then, most likely the answer to your problem is that you have to enable the Quicktime audio and video plugins. To test [...]

If you are looking for a free alternative to Microsoft Office, check out OpenOffice. It has every application that MS Office has except an equivalent to MS Outlook. Go here for a flash tour of OpenOffice (it’s for an older version, but you’ll get the gist of it). Or view a PDF presentation (you need [...]