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External Hard Drives – WARNING

September 25, 2021May 22, 2019 by Mike

I am a BIG advocate of using external hard drives to store your images and data. This is of course in addition to other back-up sources. Things such as DVD’s, extra external hard drives and additional computers. New Drive Recently I went out and bought another external hard drive. Picked up a Lacie to transfer …

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Camera Cards

March 27, 2019 by Mike

Another thing that I am asked by a lot of people is “How archival are digital camera cards”? People wonder if they should fill up a camera card then store it and buy a new one. I was not sure so I contacted Sandisk and asked this question and the response is below. Question: How …

Web Site

February 5, 2019May 30, 2017 by Mike

Do you have a web site? Many of you know I design web sites mainly for myself and a few clients that have become friends. Doing this has given me the chance to see the bad side of web design and hosting! In the past couple of weeks I have been contacted by people with huge issues with their web sites. So here is a post about what to watch out for so you do not get stuck or worse…..

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Balance your monitor

February 5, 2019January 11, 2016 by Mike

Do you need to balance your monitor? Well as I have said before it seems like I cover off the same things over and over. Today’s post is once again addressing an issue that I have covered off in the past. I get people coming in regularly that tell me “My monitor is balanced, the …

Always back-up – even your passwords!!!

June 19, 2015 by Mike

I have written many times about making sure that you back-up your digital files but I also want to remind you to back-up your passwords, as well as to use passwords that are not easy for others to guess. I know that many say you should never write down your passwords but lets be realistic, …

There’s no free lunch!!

June 11, 2015June 11, 2015 by Mike

There’s no free lunch is a saying that I’ve heard since I was a little boy, and it rings as true today as it did those so many years ago. I was just doing some work on one of my blogs and updating a few of the programs and I found what was called a “free” app that I thought I would install. So I installed the app, activated it, and then I got the request for extra information that they require before I could use this “free” app. So what is all this information that they require? First they wanted my e-mail address, then they wanted my name, my age, occupation, sex, country of residence, then they wanted me to sign up for their “free” newsletter.