With all the new technology flying at us, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to decipher this foreign language. Luckily, for the average man, there are technology translators. They may be better known as people explaining what all this tech jargon means. There are countless books to help us with this, but a few that stand out. The one book that can help the most helpless mind with computer repair is Trouble Shooting your PC for Dummies. It is easy to understand with plenty of diagrams for maintaining and repairing slow or under performing Continue reading Five Tech Friendly Books For Non-Tech Readers

Computers, and the web, are full of acronyms. A popular acronym you may have come across is ‘URL’. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is an address. Just like you have an address which says where you live, web sites have URL’s.

When you see a TV commercial, and it shows a company’s website address, that is a URL. You would enter the URL into the address bar at the top of your web browser.

So, if a Continue reading What Is URL and How Can I Find It?

Failing to run anti-virus software is a very common mistake amongst non-technical computer users. More often than not, though, non-technical users will download “free” anti-virus programs from the Internet, opting out of their more expensive retail counterparts. More than half of the time, these “free” anti-virus programs are actually viruses themselves. They can actively tamper with your registry and your system files, rendering your computer virtually useless. Typically speaking, it’s much better to bite the bullet and get Continue reading The Most Common Mistakes of Non Technical Computer Users

It’s seems to be that everyone has started blogging these days, and if you haven’t yet it is something that you should consider doing. Below is everything you need to know to get started with blogging.

The first step to blogging is choosing the platform on which you want to blog. Do you want to host the website yourself or do you want to have somewhere else host it for you? Should you want the website hosted for you, there are many options available; Continue reading Everything You Need To Know To Start Blogging