Owner: Jack's Help Desk URL:www.jackshelpdesk.com Join Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:02:48 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: A computer help blog for the novice computer user. Site statistics:Click here
Fantasy Baseball!!! 2008-03-01 20:22:26 Just taking a break from computer fixing for a minute and looking at my fantasy baseball draft. It was an auto draft and some how I ended up with
Arod, H Ramirez, Holliday, Howard, Halliday,Hoffman, Zambrano, D Willis. I got Howard in the 6th round. Pretty good for an auto draft.
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Internet Safety and Our Children 2008-02-28 21:39:19 Internet safety as it pertains to children. This is a very serious topic. Everyone has heard the horror stories of what happens when a teen boy or girl meets someone they have talked to online. Most of us have seen the “To Catch a Predator” series on 48 hours.
We can take steps to prevent this from [...] Read more:Internet
, Safety
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Wireless Network Security 2008-02-24 22:07:45 Wireless networks are becoming more common place every day. They are easy to set up. Just plug everything in out of the box and it works. However the default on all wireless routers for security is OFF. You need to go into the configuration of the router to set it up. Many people do not [...] Read more:Wireless
Anti-Virus 2008-02-20 18:45:53 You must have Anti-Virus software. If you don’t you are asking for your computer to get messed up. You don’t need to pay for it either so theres no excuse not to have it. AVG anti-virus if completly free for home use. It will auto update so your virus definitions will always be up to [...]
SpyWare 2008-02-20 18:30:39 Spyware is nothing but a pain in the ass. It can slow your computer to a crawl. Many computer users may think they need a professional to repair their computer. You might but there is something you can try. There’s a free program called SpyBot. Yes, its free and it does a very good job [...]
The Help Desk 2008-02-19 21:50:38 Welcome to Jack’s Help Desk. On this site I will try and give advice and tips on computer problems. Sometimes you may be surprised at how easy fixing your computer can be. You could be charged $100 for an issue that took 15min to resolve. If you only knew how easy it was you wouldn’t [...]
Create PDF’s for Free!!!! 2008-03-18 20:53:07 Who doesn’t like the word Free??? “Nothing is for free” is a popular saying and is true most of the time. However, with software, there are lots of nice free tools out there to be had and they are for free! PDF995 is one of them. This cool little program creates a printer object on [...]
A step away from technology…. Lets talk about Weight Loss. 2008-03-17 19:48:18 One of the toughest things to do in life is lose weight and keep it off. I recently joined Weight
Watchers and started going to meetings 2 weeks ago. I gained 3 pounds in a week. Ouchhhhh. Now I’m not extremely overweight but I could stand to lose 20 pounds or so. My motivation is [...]
Celtics 2008-05-04 20:32:29 The Boston Celtics! Who would have thought the Hawks would have taken them 7 games?
While I didn’t like the fact that the series went 7 I also believe this is a very good basketball team and they still should get by the Cavs. It would be nice if they won a road game in this [...]
Softball and Parenting 2008-07-21 21:37:41 My daughter plays on the 12 and under A team and they had a softball game today. They lost by a lot. The team they played was very well coached and very skilled. One thing I really like about the coaches is they really don’t care about winning. They just want to make sure the [...] Read more:Softball
, Parenting
Free Software! 2008-07-20 23:25:02 What is better than free? There is alot of good free software out there. You just need to find it.
PC World did a great article on free software where it lists 157 software tools that are free. I use AVG anti-virus myself and it worked great. No ads or anything. Spybot is another great tool [...] Read more:Software
, Free Software
Big Papi 2008-07-20 23:10:09 Is Papi ok? He looked good in Pawtucket and is going to Portland for 3 games to finish off his rehab stint. The Sox need him badly to contend for another World Series. The Rays are right there in the division but they seem to be getting a little cocky even though have won nothing yet. [...]
Digital TV 2008-07-20 23:04:00 Everyone by now knows that on 2/17.2009 you will need a digital TV or a converter for your older TV in order to receive TV signals. Analog signals will stop being broadcast on that date. Basically this means if you use an antenna to get your TV signals you will either need to buy a [...] Read more:Digital
Backup Backup and Backup 2008-07-20 22:54:23 Backup your files! That is one of the most important things to do if you are a computer user. How many times has a hard drive crashed and important files are lost. With the price of external USB hard drives going down there is no excuse to not back things up. Photos are a must to backup. [...]
Vacation 2008-07-20 22:26:48 My vacation was a few weeks ago. The whole family went down to Williamsburg VA. We drove, it took 2 days cause we stopped in NJ on the way down and back. The whole trip was about 10 hours. We stayed the entire week. Busch Gardens was great. we ended up going there 3 times [...] Read more:Vacation
Circuit City 2008-07-20 22:15:13 My last trip to Circuit
City may be my last. I bought a Linksys router there. When I got back to work and opened the box I found out that the wrong model was in the box. The box was sealed and everything. No problem, I’ll just return it and get another one which has [...] Read more:Circuit City
Love my Job 2008-07-20 22:02:03 Just a quick note as to how happy I am at my job. Actually it is my career and I could not have found a better place to work. I am the Network Admin at a small medical device company. Small in employees but not in revenue. It is a very successful company which is [...]
Office 2007 2008-07-20 21:48:55 What happened to Office? I have never been more frustrated with a MS upgrade than with Office 2007. It is like MS just started from scratch when the developed Office 2007. All the versions up to 2003 have all looked the similar and have added features with each version. 2007 is completely different and a [...]
Windows 7 2008-07-20 21:35:13 Microsoft is already working on and hyping the sucsessor of Vista. Vista is an ok OS but is a memory hog and you need a high power PC to run it well. Yes, it will run on lower end systems but it will be slow. You need to have atleast 2Gigs of ram if you want it [...] Read more:Windows
See Ya Manny ! 2008-08-03 20:04:18 Manny is gone!. The Sox put up with him for 7 years and he says “enough is enough”.
What a joke. He was being paid 20 whatever million a year and he says “enough is enough”. He pushes a 65 year old man on the ground, he doesn’t play against the Yankees and when he does play [...] Read more:Manny
Tournament Time 2008-07-28 21:30:25 It was Tournament
Time this past weekend. The one softball tournament my daughters team plays in. The coach had told her she would pitch in it. But she didn’t. She had been looking forward to it but he didn’t think she was ready, however when she pitched a few weeks before she got a game [...]
Nick’s Crusade 2008-08-17 10:50:26 A friend made me aware of this website. It’s a story that needs attention and needs to be heard.
Take a look at the site and help if you can: Nick’s Crusade
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