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Expert Advice
The tips, tricks and tutorials you find on this site are written by some of the brightest minds in their industry. They not only have a passion for their field of expertise, they have a passion for helping others, including you! If you find one of their contributions helpful, we encourage you to tweet about their article. Here are just some of the experts that are a part of our team:
Alan is an expert in the area of email with a wealth of knowledge in Exchange and Outlook. Alan has been an IT professional for over two decades and co-owns his own business which focuses on delivering tech support to the SMB market.
Alan Hardisty
Andrew is a computer technician who has seen many people's computers at their worst state. The majority of issues he deals with are either performance or security related and he will be sharing some of his trade secrets on these topics.
Andrew Duncan
Brandon is web developer with over five years of experience doing Wordpress theme development. His area of expertise spans multiple web programming languages and backend database systems including PHP, ASP.NET, MySQL and SQL Server.
Brandon Campbell
Daniel Park is a guru in the field of media creation. He produces many of the slick videos found on this site. Daniel was part of the talented team at TechSmith, the company that develops the popular applications Camtasia Studio and SnagIt.
Daniel Park
Kelly is a marketing expert that prides herself at being efficient with her time. This has allowed her to manage multiple projects simultaneously without sacrificing on quality. Kelly will be providing Mac and Windows tips for those looking to be a little more effective with their time.
Kelly Lynn
Jessica is an award-winning graphic designer and web developer. She runs her own successful business developing quality brands for organizations around the world. From logo design to illustrations to business cards, she does it all!
Jessica Greenwalt
Laura is an IT support manager for a mid-sized development shop. She has a tremendous amount of experience dealing with hardware, software and infrastructure concerns within a corporate environment. Laura will be discussing various software, solutions, and more.
Laura Reynolds
Michel lives and breathes JavaScript and has been using it since 1996. He has read over 10,000 pages of Javascript books and has even co-written one by O'Reilly publishing. If there was ever an expert in this area, it's Michel!
Michel Plungjan
Tracy is an Excel Extraordinaire! She has a masters in information systems and is currently employed full time as an Excel and Access developer. If there is a complex Excel issue that needs solving, Tracy is as good as any in the industry!
Tracy Broome
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If You Want to Be Knowledgeable in Windows You Need to Know Windows Sysinternals
If a friend claims to be a Windows expert, how do you test his knowledge? One way would be to ask him a Windows Sysinternals question -- about what TCPView is, for instance. Every single Windows worker -- even ones who are just learning the ropes -- knows something about the vital part that Windows Sysinternals plays in troubleshooting and managing Windows installations. What is Windows Sysinternals? Sysinternals is a part of Microsoft's TechNet website -- their portal for Windows professionals who need deep technical resources, learning materials, discussion forums and so on. It is a full set of tools and utilities that gives you very detailed insight into your computer's behavior. Some of these tools are more elaborate versions of tool already included on Windows. Process Explorer, for … Continue reading
What Is the Heartbleed Bug?
In the average security breakdown, a big company -- a bank, a retailer and so on -- experiences a vulnerability that jeopardizes its customers' personal information. A hacker may use it to haul off a harvest of user names and passwords. As bad as it is when this happens, these are isolated incidents. People who don't frequent these businesses aren't affected. Everyone makes a mental note to stay safe on the Internet and use better passwords and life goes on. With the Heartbleed bug (a bug is a programming flaw), things are much worse -- you can't stay safe using conventional security practices because it affects the very encryption system by which the Internet offers security. What exactly does the Heartbleed bug do? When you set a password on … Continue reading
Chrome's Special Features to Help You Browse Better on a Mobile Device
Chrome offers powerful capabilities to help make browsing smoother on mobile devices. These tips below should help you use the browser to the best effect. Using swipe gestures On the iPhone, iPad and on Android phones, Chrome recognizes special swipe gestures that allow you to easily move among open tabs. The gestures recognized are different for different devices, though. On Android phones, you simply need to flick your finger left or right on the browser window to move among open tabs. On Apple devices, you need to do the swiping at the edge of the screen. Curiously, Google doesn't implement any of these swipe gestures on Android tablets. Switching among different tabs on Chrome is easy on all phones Tapping Chrome's tab button lets you view all your open … Continue reading
Love Windows 8.1 but Not Its Reliance on the Cloud? Here’s How You Disable It
Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella is said to have been tapped for CEO because of the great job that he did setting up Microsoft's cloud presence. Indeed, the cloud emphasis is apparent on Windows 8.1 - it is deeply integrated with OneDrive, Bing and all of the other online services that Microsoft offers. Many users aren't completely enthusiastic about the Microsoft Cloud, though. They are simply not comfortable having Microsoft be an intimate part of their everyday lives, freely sending their files to Microsoft and having the company view information about their searches and other activity all the time. If you are one of these people, you would probably be interested in disabling some of the connected features on Windows 8.1. Here's how you do it. OneDrive When you allow … Continue reading
How About Using Google Drive as Your Online Movie Repository?
Paid storage on Google Drive is now cheaper than ever - $2 a month buys you 100 GB of space and $10 a month buys you 1,000 GB. At first, you might wonder what you could possibly want 100 GB for - your home videos, photos and music collection would barely take up 10% of the space you get. Here's an idea, though - you could turn the space available into your own personal online movie storage. Your first step - get all your content on Google Drive Before you are able to stream movies from Google Drive to your TV, you first need to upload your movie collection there. You have a few ways of achieving this - the most obvious one being to use Google Drive desktop … Continue reading
Is Your Wi-Fi Performance Always Slow? Here’s What You Do
Mass-market Wi-Fi has been around since 1999, the year that the term Wi-Fi was registered. While the standard has seen impressive improvements since then, wireless technology still isn't completely reliable. You can still run into slow speeds, poor signal quality, drop-outs and so on. People tend to have more trouble with these hiccups in some locations and with some equipment than others. If you've had enough of having your Wi-Fi stall for no apparent reason, here are three ideas that you can use. Diagnostics software If your broadband plan is fast enough but you don't see any of it over Wi-Fi, you could have a problem with how crowded the airwaves are in your neighborhood are. A free utility called ViStumbler helps you get around this problem -- it … Continue reading
