Sharon and Jacques’ Excellent Blog

It seems that I hit a bit of a nerve with the last posting about optical media and its tendency to fail. I thought I would write a few lines on how to prepare an external hard drive for backups to ensure that your data has a good chance of keeping it whole. One friend [...]

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I have a large photo collection which I make a point of backing up whenever I add new photos to the collection. I use Retrospect, an excellent backup program that I have used for many years, and I was backing up initially to CDs and for the last few years DVD+R. I started doing backups [...]

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Preface: To make sense of this story, you need a little background. I purchased an iPhone a few weeks ago and have been playing with it non-stop. Sharon, in a fit of marketing genius, rebranded herself iSharon as she felt she was lacking attention. iSharon also had surgery on Friday to fix a problem in [...]

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I recently upgraded the web site photo software. One of the features it enabled was using an Internet Explorer plug-in called Cooliris to view photo walls of the picture galleries. It also works on lots of other websites like YouTube, Google, and Flickr.
To install Cooliris, simply surf to www.cooliris.com and click on the Download Now button [...]

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I’ve updated the Recommendations page with:

updates to the AVG line of products for version 8
Added AVG Internet Security, a full featured product that compares well Norton Internet Security
Added AuctionSniper.com, an excellent tool for winning eBay auctions

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