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Tethering: Use Your Cell Phone Internet for your Laptop

9 March 2010

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! So you’re on the road and you do not have Mobile WIFI for your laptop – or you just straight-up want to get Internet off a device bigger than 3 inches! I understand. You’re already paying your cell provider [...]

Diagnose PC Problems Remotely for your Friends

31 January 2010

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Ever had someone call you and explain their computer problems or the series of events that led to some kind of error? Of course if you’re in IT support most problems are explained like this: “Nothing is working!”. Kind of broad. It’s time to put on our thinking caps TftM fans! I recently came across [...]

Innovative Finance Series: Automate your Finances

30 January 2010

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Today on Tech for the Masses we start the “Innovative Finance Series”, and we’ll jump into how to automate your personal finances. If you’re like most people you probably live paycheck to paycheck with little concern on where it all goes. When the money is gone, you have to stay in. Using this method means [...]

Search for Apartments Innovatively with Rent Jungle

27 January 2010

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There always comes a time when you’re ready to switch to “new digs” in a new area, neighborhood, or city. Personally, I find it as quite a task to go through a sea of rental websites then, another sea of neighborhood statistics sites as well. Recently, I’ve been recommended to check out Rent Jungle [...]

How to Change Facebook Privacy Settings

10 December 2009

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If you’ve logged into Facebook recently you’ll see that they changed the Privacy settings – again. Obviously, this has caused a great deal of confusion and complaints from many Facebook users. It’s really Facebooks attempt to reconfigure your settings to be more optimal for their marketing needs. If you are like most people, you probably [...]

How to change the Office 2007 Menu Interface

27 November 2009

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If you are like most people, then you were more then happy clicking around Office 2003 menus without a problems. Then along came Microsoft Office 2007 to throw you off the horse! This change in the user interface was probably felt all around the world as numerous people complained about the new and improved “ribbon” [...]

Plan the Best Las Vegas Trip

25 June 2009

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Good afternoon bloggers! Things have been pretty busy on my end with work, and congruently, I been trying to plan for some much needed time off. This is where my article leads into: Planning your Best Vegas Trip ever! With the decline of the economy, deals for Las Vegas seem to be at an all [...]

Easy Remote Access with LogMeIn

25 May 2009

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Don’t run away just cause you saw the word “Remote Access”! Remote Access is a method used to connect to and use your computer from anywhere – remotely. For any IT Professional, this is the main method we use to fix computer problems and diagnose issues. Do you think we want to actually get [...]

Instant Message and Donate to Charities at the same time

21 May 2009

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I give Microsoft a lot of flack sometimes, but it’s give and take. As you know I’m a big fan of their DreamSpark program as was mentioned in a previous article. However, I’m also a fan of their I’M Initiative (I’m Making A Difference) that donates small amounts of money to charities of your choice, [...]

Imaging a computer with Norton Ghost

20 May 2009

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Automating the installation of Windows XP (or even Vista) can save any technician a lot of time. Typical installations from scratch can often take a couple of hours. Who has this much time when you have computers lined up. Not me, that’s for sure. The conventional, Microsoft approved method of automating installation is to [...]