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Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 6:55PM Most home users use very little bandwidth. Unless you are a pirate or Netflix fan, your monthly usage is probably very minimum. For those who fall on the other end of the scale, check out Networx, a free program that will monitor and report on your daily, weekly or monthly usage patterns. Easy to use, try it out.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 6:36PM Last part first, 295 Exabytes is the amount of data that is stored on this planet as of 2007. That is counting every country and every form of storage (Hard Drives, Optical Drives, tapes and other various forms of storage). Simple break down of how big 295 Exabytes are:
Take a 100GB Hard Drive multiply that by 10 MILLION and you get 1 exabyte. You can imagine the rest of the math to get to 295 exabytes. For a more graphical breakdown of all this data, check out this page.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 6:25PM Take note of HTTPS: in your address bar, especially when engaging in online banking, email and ecommerce. A new article has been posted explaining how HTTPS: works. Required reading if you want to be safe on the Internet. Article is located here.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 6:13PM Finally a problem that is stumping the local tech guy. How to restore a corrupt bios on a Dell Mini 10 netbook. Digging through many forums have come up with many possible solutions. Some involve a USB floppy drive, some involve shooting the nearest Dell Tech Support Member. If anyone has a solution, let me know, lol! Help!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 12:18AM Do you have a rewards card for the local grocery store, and for Dick's and GNC and Barnes and Noble and ..so on...? Well check out www.justoneclubcard.com. At this site you can consolidate up to 6 Rewards Cards onto one double sided card. Eliminate all those cards in your wallet/purse!, finally
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 1:13AM It took almost 3 years to go from Firefox 3 to 4, now it's about 3 months and we are on to version 5. I installed it and took it on a test drive. To be honest, nothing much has changed, although I am sure everything important in the upgrade is "under the hood". Upgrade.