Your computer is an expensive investment; you should protect it from a power surge. If a sudden rush of electricity hits, a surge protector will blow the fuse or trip the breaker, this is what saves your computer. You should be sure to use a surge protector with a phone jack to keep the phone line from being a way for the electricity to travel to your computer. You should know that a surge protector cannot safeguard you form a direct lightning strike. If you completely unplug your computer and modem during a thunderstorm, this is the only sure way to protect your computer against… Continue Reading…

Do you remember the old saw about how computers would change our lives for the better? We would have more time to ourselves and lead healthier, happier lives. The truth is computers do make processing information lightening fast. It is just that today, we have so much more information to process and so many more distractions that the computer, via the Internet, has brought into our lives. So what is the bottom line? Today we spend more time operating a computer, for fun and for profit, than on any other single pastime, except for maybe sleeping. And if you are… Continue Reading…

It seems like fast never quite rates fast enough. No matter how quickly something moves, especially on the Internet, it could always move faster. Email, web surfing, downloading files (legally of course), none of them ever go as quickly as we want or expect. Well, let me do my part to perpetuate this microwave oven mentality (why must popcorn take 3 minutes instead of 2?) by giving you some tips and hints for making your online experiences and overall computing as fast as possible (even on a dial up connection). ** Hit The Accelerator ** Sensing a need for faster Internet… Continue Reading…