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Monthly Archives: September 2008

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What is a Hard Drive?

September 26, 2008 | 3 Comments

I have decided to start writing more posts geared towards talking about computer components, what they are and how they work. For many, it can be confusing to buy a computer and trying to understand what is in the computer. Since I recently wrote a post about recovering data from a hard drive with bad [...]

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How to Capture Action Shots Outdoors

September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments

I was recently at the park taking pictures of my oldest son on the swings. As I took the pictures, I noticed another person doing the same with members of his family next to me. I stood and watched for a moment as he became disappointed when his pictures came out blurry, and he eventually [...]

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 4

September 19, 2008 | 11 Comments

This post is the fourth and final post in my series about converting from Blogger to WordPress. I have discussed installing WordPress locally, domain names and hosts, and plugins and themes. In this post I will finish off with moving your blog to WordPress, pointing the two domain names to your WordPress blog, and then [...]

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 3

September 17, 2008 | 3 Comments

In the first part I discussed installing WordPress on your local machine, and importing your Blogger posts into WordPress. From there, I talked about purchasing a domain name, and a host in part 2 of this series. If you have been looking at WordPress on your local machine you have probably come across plugins and [...]

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 2

September 12, 2008 | 3 Comments

This post will continue the steps that I took to convert my Blogger blog to a WordPress blog. In Blogger to WordPress – Part 1 I talked about installing WordPress on your local machine. This was done to help you learn WordPress and practice importing your Blogger data. In this part I will talk about [...]

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 1

September 10, 2008 | 12 Comments

I recently mentioned that I had converted to WordPress from Blogger. I also mentioned that the conversion was easier than I thought it was going to be. While I found it easy, some may still not be comfortable converting to WordPress from Blogger. To ease any fears of converting, I decided to write several posts [...]

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Testing for Bad Sectors

September 5, 2008 | 4 Comments

In my last post titled Recovering Data from a Hard Drive with Bad Sectors, I mentioned that I had recently recovered data from a hard drive that had bad sectors. In that post I also talked about what bad sectors are and what happens when they appear. One thing I didn’t talk about was detecting [...]

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Recovering Data from a Hard Drive with Bad Sectors

September 3, 2008 | 22 Comments

I have dealt with many hard drive failures in the past, and most of the time it was the result of bad sectors. Other times it was a complete failure where the hard drive wouldn’t even power up. In the latter instance there isn’t much you can do to retrieve your data. As for bad [...]

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