I just spent the afternoon helping my son recover from a nasty virus on his Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook. We’re still not sure how exactly he got it, but he didn’t tell me about it right away, and his computer wound up completely disabled.
Posts tagged as:
windows
My son’s Asus Eee PC 1000HE running Windows XP recently contracted a nasty virus. Unfortunately, he didn’t tell me about it right away, and we ended up having to completely restore his system and start over from scratch.
I’m a big fan of internet TV, and have recently been looking for an easy way to get Hulu on our TV. Last night I ran across PlayOn.TV, which promises to do just that (and more) via your Wii, PS3, or Xbox 360.
I have an iPhone and my son has an iPod Touch. Until recently, we’ve been frustrated by our inability to share apps that one of us buys. Fortunately, we’ve since figured out how to share apps without re-buying them, and it doesn’t even violate the iTunes user agreement.
Have you ever wondered where Windows stores your iPhone or iPod apps? If so, then you’ve come to the right place… Note that the following assumes you are using Windows XP. Unfortunately, I don’t have access to Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc.
This is just a quick note to say that DropBox, which is a very handy tool for synchronizing files across computes, will fail to sync if you use certain ’special’ characters in the file name.
I try to avoid the Windows world as much as possible, but sometimes I can’t get away from it. Today was one of those days. Long story short, I was making a graph in Excel and needed to save it as an image file. Unfortunately, I couldn’t do it.
Have you ever had problems getting a DVD to mount on your MacBook Pro? I have, and it can be very frustrating. When I pop in the disc, it spins up as expected, but then nothing more happens.
Earlier today, my son told me that the internet connection on his Asus Eee PC 1000HE wasn’t working. He’d been streaming a movie on Netflix when the connection “suddenly” dropped. I always dread having to troubleshoot Windows issues, especially when it comes to networking problems, but I waded in…
If you’re a Mac user and you want to check how your web pages look in a variety of Windows-based browsers, check out BrowserShots.org. This is a free service that offers screenshots using a wide variety of browsers on multiple platforms.
This is especially useful for Mac users (such as myself) who need to be sure that things look okay when viewed with Internet Explorer. In fact, I’ve been using it quite heavily over the past few days, as I’ve been working on a new layout for my other sites . While I’ve used Parallels Desktop to check browser compatibility [...]