This Labor Day get Friends Hosting for $9.95 and a special Security Pack at 80% OFF You probably remember our currently active Friends promotion? This unique offer allows you and your friends to get a 1 year of full featured hosting at the price of 1 month! For Labor Day, we have enhanced our Friends deal so that with all new Friends accounts, you can get an all-inclusive Security Suite with a $150.00 value at a great discount! If you are thinking of transferring accounts or starting new >>READ MORE>>
September 4, 2010
Happy Hamster Portland Computers & Repair Labor Day Hours
Hey Everybody in Portland Computer Repair Land, Just so you all know, we will be open regular hours Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Computers break over the holiday, so we will be here to fix them! Also feel free to stop by to talk about some screaming deals we have on new HP probook and elitebook laptops. Thanks! -Zac >>READ MORE>>
September 3, 2010
Glossary of Western Digital Hard Disk Drive (Letter S)
S.M.A.R.T. Self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology. A technology to assist users in preventing system down time due to hard drive failure; it attempts to predict hard drive failure before it occurs. Safe Shutdown™ A WD-exclusive feature that ensures all data is transferred before shutting down the drive. SAS Serial Attached SCSI. A point-to-point serial interface that links controllers directly to hard drives. Unlike traditional parallel SCSI, SAS allows up to 128 >>READ MORE>>
September 2, 2010
Is This You?
This is the type of e-mail’s I get from others in the industry Dan, I need your help. None of this crap works. I just finished reading posts on Technibble and Podnutz for the past few years and haven’t made a dime. I bought e-books, video courses, audio courses, key word tools, and complete businesses in a box and NONE of them work. I am a member of some of the community groups in my town. I thought about going to a Chamber of Commerce meeting, but I bet they already have >>READ MORE>>
September 1, 2010
Samsung Hard Drive Format Utility
What is Samsung Format Utility? The Samsung Format utility is a program specifically designed for formating Samsung External Hard Disk drives. It can be used to format the hard drive using either the FATS32 or NTFS file system. How to use Samsung Format Utility? 1. Download the Samsung Format Utility program to you main system drive. 2. Run the executable to extract the utility to a location on your main system drive (not the external drive). 3. Ensure the Samsung External Disk Drive is >>READ MORE>>
What is Samsung Auto Backup?
Samsung Auto Backup is Bundled software that performs a backup of the PC data to Samsung External Hard Drive. Through the Real-Time Backup or Scheduled Backup, the data can be backed up safely to Samsung External Hard Drive. When the backed up data are damaged due to a system error or user’s mistake, they can be checked/recovered through the Integrity Check. Also the original data that was stored in the PC can be conveniently recovered when damaged or lost. ※ Caution : The Samsung >>READ MORE>>
Cookies, Flash Cookies, Removing them – Part II
In my last Blog, we I talked about what the cookies are, and some of the dangers they can be. Today I am going to talk about how to manage and get rid of cookies from the computer. First, I will start with regular old cookies. In my opinion, the best tool to manage cookies on your computer is CCleaner. If your computer has been on my bench for repair, you will have it on your desktop. Crap Cleaner (Ccleaner) is one of the best free cleaner utilities around. I like the Ccleaner SLIM, that is >>READ MORE>>
Cookies, Flash Cookies, Removing them – Part II
In my last Blog, we I talked about what the cookies are, and some of the dangers they can be. Today I am going to talk about how to manage and get rid of cookies from the computer. First, I will start with regular old cookies. In my opinion, the best tool to manage cookies on your computer is CCleaner. If your computer has been on my bench for repair, you will have it on your desktop. Crap Cleaner (Ccleaner) is one of the best free cleaner utilities around. I like the Ccleaner SLIM, that is >>READ MORE>>
August 30, 2010
Has your email been hacked into? Watch out if you use free email services
Email hacking is back in full force. I saw some relief this summer, but just in the past week I have seen 2 people sending me email that was not really sent from them. Their email was hacked into and and these folks are all using free email services such as Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo. Many of these emails are sent stating you are on travel in Spain or England and have lost access to your money. They want you to wire money, etc. What the hackers do They get your email login and password, log into >>READ MORE>>
August 29, 2010
Happy Hamster Computer Repair Lost an A-Board
Hey Everybody in Portland Computer Repair Land, Today some jackass went up on the curb and hit our A-board, knocking into into the street! Broke it into a few pieces. A memorial to the A-board has been set up at the tree outside our shop (we’ve leaned the splintered pieces against the tree). Feel free to leave flowers and poems expressing your love for the board. A-Board is survived by his brother, our other A-Board. Have a good weekend, -Zac Owner Happy Hamster Portland Computer >>READ MORE>>

