Recently I had to downgrade a pirated version of Windows 7 Ultimate to a legal copy of Windows 7 Professional. Naturally, I went to the Microsoft website to find out information about installing Windows 7 Professional over Windows 7 Ultimate. A downgrade. The verdict from information on the Microsoft website? "It's impossible." Yes,...
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I have been trying to land a job repairing computers for local computer shops. I haven't had any luck, it seems that they are hung-up on degrees. I have to ask, whatever happened to experience? I always try to keep a positive outlook on Puerto Rico as a whole, outside of politics. We all know, or you should know, that local politics...
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We want to welcome you to the only trivia game site on the Internet dedicated to the island of Puerto Rico! If you enjoy entertaining your self with trivialities and puzzles you will enjoy trivia, you will not only entertain yourself you will also learn a lot about your beloved country! http://www.gozatelo.com/trivia/ You can access...
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My electric bill has skyrocketed. I am sure many of you have the same problem. My biggest consuming appliance is my air conditioner (AC), so I am searching for a solar powered AC unit. Many companies claim a savings on your bill of 70% with one of these units. But I have no idea how much of this claim is true. If anyone here has a...
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Rebates are a joke. And so many tech companies are using them as a ploy and nothing more, no real intention on ever paying you a rebate unless you nag. I never buy anything because of a rebate. I am the type of person who buys what he needs when he needs it. I don't much look for bargains either, I usually settle for what I think is...
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The Internet to most, like me, is familiar territory by now, so we can navigate its more stormy areas with ease. But many, like my wife's uncle, are not that savvy. I am the tech that keeps his computer running. And I have installed software like AVG's free antivirus and have helped him to understand it enough to use it himself. But...
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This morning I decided to just go on a reading rampage and I somehow landed on Emily Gould's Essay, Exposed, on the New York Times website. This article can really, and truly (that's a first) be summed up by its heading on the front page of the New York Times, What I Gained, and Lost, By Writing Online. Usually headings are...
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OK, those of you browsing with FireFox already know how great it's security is as compared to IE. But did you know about these great security add-ons? Key Scrambler – Although this add-on is not open source it's free version does protect you from key loggers when you are about to enter your user id and password on any web...
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What a coincidence, I was thinking for the past week to write about my video game arcade experience when I was a teenager, then I stumbled on Wil Wheaton's blog about the demise of the video game arcades. I was in Puerto Rico at the time, between 1978 and 1980, when I was an arcade junky in Aguadilla Mall. We were living in el...
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Wow! Need I say more? I guess I should. I have been using FreeSpire ever since it came out a few months ago and I haven't tried another Linux OS since (although I have looked at PCBSD, I like what I saw there but it wasn't enough to wean me out of FreeSpire.) To make matters even better, Jasp (Andrew Betts from the UK) provided us...
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