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How much do you pay for your Ink Cartridges?

I don’t print a lot of things too often, mainly just directions from Google maps or a recipe or 2. I got married a few months back and one of the things me and my wife decided to do was print our wedding invitations ourselves. The printer I have is a HP all in one, [...]

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What do you do with your computer parts? Here are a few suggestions

In my house, in my computer room, I have a closet that contains several PC cases, old power supplies, sound cards, video cards, old motherboards, ram… My closet has become a graveyard for old computer parts. Like I have said from the start of this blog, I love working on, building, repairing PCs. With [...]

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How quick we forget, AMD Use to be tops

The other night, something happened that required me to do a little research. My wife has a really old PC. I keep saying Im going to upgrade it. right now it is super slow, even for a casual PC user. She finds a lot of times she has to use my Laptop or other peoples [...]

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Harddrive crash? Important data lost? never fear, there are ways to recover it.

Last week I told the story about a friend that lost a lot of important data in a harddrive crash. Well, we kept at it and used some software to get back some of his important files. To be honest, I thought all was lost. First I’ll go over what was tried originally. To make [...]

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We all probably could do a little better at backing up important files

Do you perform regular backups of your files?
Let me tell you a little story. Last week a friend called me and was asking quetions about his PC. One day he got the dreaded messages saying that his drive was corrupt. The files were unreadable, and it doesnt  boot to anything. Says the drive is bad [...]

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Cox Highspeed Internet tech support woes. How common is this?

Ive been building, upgrading and repairing PCs for about 15 years. I wouldnt say Im an expert, or know everything, but I am pretty familiar with a lot of PC technical issues. My knowledge and experience with PC’s have helped me see through some of the garbage that store salesman try to feed me and [...]

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Is it still a good idea to “Do Follow” links in your blog’s comments?

This blog… Actually both of my blogs have the "Do Follow" plugin installed. I know many of you know how this works but for those that dont, heres a brief explanation of the whole "No Follow" thing. The "No Follow" tag was created to help search engines know what to ignore when it crawls your [...]

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Back on the stat topic again, this time Adsense.

If you don’t know, I have 2 blogs. This blog (jonespc.com), pretty much a PC tech oriented blog with tips and talk about PC’s, the internet, software, games etc. Then theres Jonzee.com which is a gadget, shopping and product information blog. The traffic I get on both blogs are pretty similar, but Jonzee.com gets a [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo? Heres 4 other tech companies I would like to see merge

Everyone is talking about the Microsoft Yahoo potential merger lately. I think there are some obvious good reasons for them to merger, and of coarse when dealing with Microsoft, there are always bad reasons. Put that merger aside for a minute. Think about all of the other companies out there, all of the other sections [...]

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Turn your DNN website into a online store with CATALook

When I use to use DNN, I created several websites for clients that were looking to find a low cost way to bring thier brick and mortor store to the online web world. A solution I found was the CATALook.net store module for DNN. The CATALook.net store is really a full featured option. You can [...]

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