• Home

    • Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters February 4th

    Posted By terry on February 4, 2007

    My weekly email and on-line newsletters are now available:

    This week’s online articles include:

    If you subscribe to the email newsletter now, you will get instructions on how to request automatic free copies of the two most recent issues.

    Comment about these articles using the “leave a response” link below…

    7 Comments so far

    1. Walter Scott on February 4th, 2007

      Terry, enjoyed the cell phone article. Ive also been tempted by many of the “convergance” phones. But Ive decided to stick with a sperate phone and PDA, and here is why:

      It is my understanding that music on such phones is in MONO, because of the type of headset connector used. The other concern is that i have somewhat oily skin, and must constant wipe my cell phone clean after pressing it to my ear. Id hate to have my PDA screen smeared the same way my cell phone gets.

      Good luck with your choice!

    2. terry on February 4th, 2007

      Thanks for the comments, Walter. In this case, the Samsung Blackjack has STEREO Bluetooth. Of course, that means I’d have to get a stereo bluetooth headset — probably in addition to the regular mono phone one.

      I’m more interested in Internet access than MP3 functionality, though, although both will drain the battery pretty fast.

    3. David Sivertsen on February 4th, 2007

      Terry,
      Thanks for the excellent articles on SATA drives. I am glad to see I am not the only one that, once in awhile, has problems with them. Most of the time when I have problems with SATA it turns out to be a driver issue.
      I am a tech. coord. in a small (population wise) school district in central SD. Ghosting Gateway M285 tablets with SATA drives gave us a head ache, but once the proper drivers were found everything worked.
      Your news letter is getting better and better.
      David

    4. Walter Scott on February 4th, 2007

      Terry, I have a Firefox question regarding how Firefox handles downloaded files. From what I’m seeing there is no way to add a new file type to the existing list. You can change what programs open a file type that is listed, and you can remove file types, but I can’t figure out how to add one. I just got Filzip installed based on your recommendations and I like to tell Firefox to open RAR files with Filzip. (Tools->Content->Filetype->Manage.)

    5. terry on February 4th, 2007

      According to the Firefox help site (found it via Google), any file type you’ve downloaded automatically shows up in that list. Once added, you can change the app that handles it.

      http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/options

    6. Walter Scott on February 4th, 2007

      Terry, on the Firefox file issue, i agree with what it says, but i just downloaded several RAR files. The only choice i’m given it to save them, and the RAR file type does not show up in the options list. I tried closing and then re-opening Firefox. No luck. This might make for an interesting note in your next Newsletter.

    7. Dave Hartsock on February 5th, 2007

      Hi Terry,

      A quick comment about your SATA article on Feb 4th…

      QUOTE – “I also get many more sudden “blue screens” ( “windows has shut down to prevent damage to the system….”) at the office machines, usually when running, e.g. three video editing programs, Nero 7 DVD burning, + maybe four large downloads and some word processing all simultaneously- ”

      This sounds like it may be a either bad memory or incorrect memory settings in the BIOS. Is he using off brand memory or memory of the wrong speed? Did he adjust any BIOS settings or are them some that need adjusted? Just another possibility.

      Keep up the great work,
      Dave H

    Leave a reply