What’s are the most common problems and dangers to your Laptop?
You!  Dropping it. Slamming the lid. Grabbing it by the screen. Spilling things on it. Sitting it on the couch or bed or blanket which covers the fan ports.  Treat your laptop kindly and don’t let it get overheated.  (Heat will slow your computer down, btw).
Lightning [...]

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Tips for Old Eyes, and Remembering Names
Yes, I’m getting older, but “THEY” are also making things harder to see and find!
I have a beautiful 17″ laptop with a high resolution screen, –but darnit if I can’t regularly find my MOUSE POINTER on that screen!!!  Doesn’t help that I usually have 5 windows open at the same time.
“Duh” [...]

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Occasionally someone will ask me, “What anti-virus software do you recommend?” And they are surprised when I tell them, “Get the FREE  anti-virus from AVG.”  It’s made  by Grisoft, a very good anti-virus developer, and millions of people use it.  www.free.avg.com
I’m what some would call a “power computer user.” Counting my 3 daughter’s computers which I’ve [...]

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We’ve been using a little digital recorder in the pulpit to record the pastor’s sermons and posting them on our church website. And so far, so good.
We bought the Olympus WS-400s at Office Max for about $60. It has a built in microphone, two recording quality settings, and 1 gb memory for up to 170 hrs [...]

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There are GOOD FREE ALTERNATIVES to Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Outlook 2007.  And with the new versions of Microsoft Office costing over $200, these free alternatives are much appreciated.  They download rather quickly, install easily, and have setup wizards.  Their features are very similar to those found in Microsoft products.
Email:  Mozilla’s “Thunderbird” 2.0 
Thunderbird 2.0 is nearly identical [...]

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Recently I’ve been investigating how to add a “Donate Now” feature to four different non-profit websites which I help maintain. One is a church, another is a local soup kitchen ministry, another is a school for the disabled, and the fourth is rotation.org -the free Sunday School lessons site.
There are many options, all of them pretty [...]

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A couple of years ago you could easily tell how fast your computer’s processor was. You knew a Pentium 4 was faster than a 3. You knew a 2.0 ghz P4 was faster than a 1.3 ghz P4. And you knew a “DualCore” (like the Intel Core2Duo) was probably faster than a Pentium 4 “single core” processor (it is). 
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Recently, I wrote an article for my SundaySoftware.com subscribers about “New Tech and it’s implications for the Church.” (http://www.sundaysoftware.com/articles/newtech.htm)  It included info about how to set-up and use Twitter, Live Chat, and Email Newsletters to improve church communications –for free. I promised a follow-up specifically about Facebook (www.facebook.com) and here it is. My thanks to the church pastors and staffers who offered [...]

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How to send email from your computer to a cell phone.
How to send a text message or photo from your cell phone to someone’s email address.
This blog article is brought to you by www.sundaysoftware.com  Check out our great Bible story software and Bible games for kids! Neil MacQueen is a “techie-pastor” who writes about tech subjects for [...]

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There’s a relatively NEW form of communication spreading rapidly over the internet and cell phones. It’s called TWITTER (www.twitter.com) and every pastor who believes in staying in touch with parishioners should CONSIDER using it.  
Is it hype? Nope, it’s a tool that I think is BETTER SUITED to what a PASTOR is trying to do –provide timely [...]

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For a lot of reasons…..  It’s time your church had an email newsletter. In fact, maybe it’s time your church got RID of its MAILED newsletter.  Many have, –sending out one or two email newsletters a month, and placing print copies of the email newsletters on tables after worship for those who don’t have email or [...]

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January 2009:  I have purchased a new $500 laptop –and so far, so good.
My ol’ Dell 6000 laptop, which I paid $1200 for 5 years ago, was stolen on 12.28.08. It was ready to be retired anyway. I had been using a newer desktop computer for the last two years, but really needed to “get [...]

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