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Dell Inspiron 6400 – Three Unknown Base System Devices

January 16, 2008 | 60 Comments

I recently enountered a problem where a Dell Inspiron 6400 displayed three base system devices after installing Windows XP onto the machine. It originally had Vista installed, so I only had Vista drivers, which didn’t work with Window XP. About a year ago, someone I know purchased an Inspiron 6400 laptop from Dell and tried [...]

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Review: Listen. Are you Listening?

January 14, 2008 | No Comments

I recently reviewed a blog that was focused on the movie industry, only it had replaced humans in each movie with cats. For this week’s review I will look at another movie site that provides movie reviews and previews without the cats. The author of this week’s blog has provided a blog that includes links [...]

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DNS Issue when Accessing a Web Page

January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

I recently experienced a problem that looked like a DNS error. The error appeared in the web browser after trying to load a Web page. I have never seen the error message before, but after reading the message it was easy to determine it had to do with domain name servers. After doing some testing, [...]

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Types of Broadband Internet Access

January 9, 2008 | 3 Comments

I remember when I first connected to the Internet I used a 56Kbps modem over the phone line. Back then, that was considered fast as many users were using 14.4Kbps or 288Kbps modems. Since then, however, the Internet has evolved and so has the connection methods. In this post I explain broadband, and the various [...]

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Review: Poopsies

January 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

After taking a short vacation during the holiday season, I have returned to publishing posts, and reviews to Technically Easy. This week I have reviewed a blog that is focused mainly on a subject that I have very limited knowledge about: anime. Anime is very popular among some people, however, I have never gotten into [...]

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Review: Moviecat

December 24, 2007 | 2 Comments

I enjoy reading blogs and Web sites that are humorous, mainly because life can be serious at times, so reading something funny is a change of pace. Many of the funny Web sites, however, can have recycled content, or content that I have seen many times before. This week, I review a blog that, if [...]

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Alexa and Traffic Rank

December 21, 2007 | 9 Comments

There is much debate about using the traffic ranking data from Alexa. Some sites, such as the paid review sites, use it to determine the amount of traffic your site receives. Many individual webmasters don’t care much for the data as it doesn’t present an accurate picture of traffic. I don’t put too much stock [...]

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Internet Explorer Not Connecting to the Internet

December 19, 2007 | 8 Comments

Recently I received an e-mail from someone who was having trouble getting Internet Explorer to connect to the Internet. Various other programs, such as e-mail, were able to connect, however, the browser was having difficulty. As I always like to do, I decided to see if I can help. It is more difficult via e-mail [...]

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