This month it’s starting.  Microsoft is forcing Internet Explorer 8 and 9 on everyone, whether you want it or not, through their automatic updates. According to their Internet Explorer blog, you’ll be moving on to IE 8 and 9 soon.  They’re starting with Australia and Brazil in January. Unfortunately, they don’t say in the blog [...]

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I’ve gotten this infected email four times, including one from my sister, and one from my sister-in-law. All four came from Hotmail or MSN accounts so I assume it’s a Hotmail/MSN virus. The message looks like this or something similiar.  This is the one from my sister: And the one from my sister-in-law was even [...]

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                  This is a guest post written by Peter Trigueiro: If you ever wanted a museum devoted to yourself, your wish has been granted! Facebook’s new timeline allows everyone on your friends list to go through any post you’ve made on Facebook very easily. Whereas before a [...]

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  So your boyfriend got drunk and spilled his beer on your laptop. Or your two-year-old spilled orange juice on your sister’s notebook. Or you splashed just a little coffee on the laptop’s keyboard. This can mean your laptop is toast or that nothing much is wrong with it, depending. Depending on what you do [...]

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Lately Ms. Ducktoes is practicing being funny in her blog posts. Nobody seems to notice except her youngest son who actually did laugh out loud while reading the post about The Hidden, Sexy, Mysterious Other Inbox. And I didn’t even bribe him with a better Christmas present, although Ms. Santa Claus is coming to town [...]

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  According to the LA Times, victims of the Winfixer, Drive Cleaner and Antivirus XP scam are entitled to a refund.  See here.  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/12/scam-watch-computer-virus-warning-ponzi-scheme-fake-bbb-email.html. If you fall for any other anti-virus scams or have a Rogue Anti-virus or Rogue Anti-Spyware, we can help at our Calgary Virus Removal lab.

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Of course you’ve heard of the other woman or man. The words conjure up a mysterious, sexy individual involved in daring, clandestine activites. Yet in actuality, most likely the other woman or man is just an ordinary and somewhat lonely person having an affair with a married person. Perhaps not that mysterious after all.   [...]

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  If you haven’t heard, Ms. Ducktoes will have to break the news to you.  Sit down and get out your hankies.  It’s a sad story. In Thailand there’s a flood and, sinking like metallic stones in the floodwaters, are oodles of hard drives.   Thailand, it turns out, produces many of the world’s hard drives. [...]

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The only somewhat less awesome and cool facts behind the “You’re going to die, Jim,” story is this.  Google Chrome has what they call a “Sad Tab,” a page that appears when a tab crashes.  The page uses Dr. Leonard McCoy’s refrain, repeated 20 or more times on Star Trek episodes, “He’s dead, Jim.” This [...]

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A client was online. She was typing away on an email. Then her computer blue-screened. A message appeared across the screen, “You’re going to die, Jim.” So immediately her husband called our shop (Ducktoes Computer Repair Shop) and told the tech Jody what had happened. “Awesome,” Jody said. “There are two Jims in this house,” [...]

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At Ducktoes, we use optimization tools up the ying-yang. One we dream about in our sleep is Auslogics Boost Speed. According to recent reviews, Auslogics speeds up computers by 15 to 20%. The reviewers used PC Mark to measure before and after results. And guess what all? Each computer lost over 20 lbs. and could [...]

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Here’s an excellent blog post about free music by good friend and tech Jody Gristwood. We do have Canadian alternatives to Pandora and Jody does a great job explaining them. Click here to read. http://thegeekdownthestreet.com/blog/canadian-alternatives-for-spotify-and-pandora/ The above link doesn’t work, so, as a work around, do this: Right click the link where it says “Click [...]

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