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Digital Picture Frame Choices
Maintaining Battery Life
State of Art Cell Phones
Security Update
Email Memory Limitations Quick Fix
by Michael Bilyeu
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Greetings All!
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DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME CHOICES
OK so you want to get a digital picture frame… The prices are pretty good right now, so go ahead and get one. The first thing to consider is the size of the display? Well, that would depend where you are going to display it. For a desk top display you should go with a 7 inch frame, in a large room an 11 inch would
do just fine. The one I recommend is the Ativa 11 inch wooden frame. It comes with 2 color frames and it has a flash drive port. This is a great feature because you can load all your pictures from your computer, and you are limited in space only by the choice of flash drive you use. It also can play videos and music as well, while the slideshow keeps all you memories on display.
MAINTAINING BATTERY LIFE
Next, I get a lot of calls concerning laptop batteries not lasting the original amount of time. This is also true of many re-chargeable items, including cell phones, mp3 players, etc. The cause of this is called battery “memory”. The best way to maintain the battery life is to run the battery all the way down at least once a month. This will improve the batteries life and the run time as well. If you are using the laptop plugged in most of the time, remove the battery and insert only when leaving.
STATE-OF-THE-ART CELL PHONES
Now about that cell phone. Ok so you want a really cool phone but don’t want to deal with the iPhone. The current, out of this world cell phone is the HTC Touch HD Blackstone. It has a high definition 3.8 inch viewing screen, Tom Tom Go GPS, Bluetooth, MP3, Am Fm Player, Windows Mobile 6.1, Mobile Office, Internet, E-Mail, and it has an SD card slot so you can have any size storage you want. There are many more features including a 5.0 Megapixel camera that any Techno Wizard would be proud to show off…
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SECURITY UPDATE
Also it is that time again, the new Norton Internet Security 2009 is available and you should be installing it on all computers.
E-MAIL MEMORY LIMITATIONS QUICK-FIX
Last item. Are you having problems with Outlook? The E-Mail program has issues with the amount of data you are saving. Outlook 2000, and Outlook 2002 have a limit of approximately 1.8 Gigs of storage. After that it starts to crash. Outlook 2003 has a limit of about 20 Gigs, and Outlook 2007 says it is unlimited.
OK that’s fine except you are having problems now. Microsoft Outlook comes with a tool to try to fix data file problems. Do a search of your C drive for a file called “Scanpst”. When you find it, run the program and browse to your data file and let it try to repair the file. This could result in lost mail, but if it’s
not working anyway you have nothing to lose. After completing the repair, trim down the amount of data you have according to what version of Outlook you have, or consider upgrading to a newer version.
Ok, that is all for now, have fun and happy computing…
Computer Doctor
Michael Bilyeu
Computer_doctor@myctsonline.com
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