The average computer user is aware of anti-virus and anti-spyware programs, but do they really work at removing your infection?  In my experience, they do not work, at least not 100% of the time or even close to that.

If you ask any experienced and competent IT professional what to do about an infected system, they should only give you one answer: format your hard drive and reinstall your operating system.  Why skip straight to the format/reinstall and disregard the anti-virus and anti-spyware removal tools?

1. Formatting and reinstalling your operating is the only 100% guaranteed way of removing an infection.  Formatting your hard

I ordered an InvisibleSHIELD a week ago and it has finally arrived.  Prior to installing the skin, I swapped out my chrome defective phone with a brand new replacement so that I would have a clean phone with no scratches. 

The InvisibleSHIELD comes nicely packaged and includes the plastic protective skin, a plastic squeegee, and a bottle of “Shield Spray”, which is mostly water.  A perforated plastic sheet holds the many individual skin pieces in place.  Unfortunately, Zagg did not include a legend, so you’re left to figure out what goes where.  Therefore, it would be a good idea… Continue reading

To follow up to my prior post regarding defective chrome in the HTC Touch Pro, I visited a Sprint store to obtain a replacement. As expected, the employees were fully aware of the issue and promptly began to switch my phone out with a brand new replacement. I knew that the replacement was new since the Sprint employee took my replacement out of a retail package.

However, we ran into a little snag when I had to tell the salesperson that the phone was originally purchased from Best Buy. She informed me that typically with third party sellers, any issues… Continue reading

It appears that there is a manufacturing defect in some of the Sprint HTC Touch Pro handsets.  Good news for you and many other people, Sprint is well aware of this issue dealing with the cracks in the corners of the HTC Touch Pro.  The problem with the chrome involves very small cracks which are appearing on the edges of the phone.  You won’t notice the cracks unless you look very hard.  However, Sprint is well aware of this issue and are swapping out defective Touch Pro handsets with replacements.

If you have these cracks on your phone, and you bought your… Continue reading

Sorry guys, earlier today around 12:00PM EST, the site went down for about 2 hours.  Due to that incident, along with other incidents in the past year, I decided to move the site and change providers.  This site used to be hosted by CookieHost, but now I’ve moved it to Hostmonster.

I chose to host this site with Hostmonster because of their great hosting package along with the fact that I also have other sites hosted with Hostmonster.  I can’t remember a time when any of those websites went down and my experience with their customer service was… Continue reading

In the past decade, firewall, anti-virus, and anti-spyware companies ramped up their marketing and made the dangers of the internet known to the public.  Their marketing, along with a large portion of the media, made it seem like firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware programs are mandatory and that no computer will ever be safe without them.

If you’re an above average user, the truth is, you don’t really need any of the three.  Of course, there’s a catch: you must be aware of your actions.  Computers do not get infected on their own, it is usually the fault of the user.  Clicking… Continue reading

Remote Desktop is a great feature of Windows which lets you remotely control your desktop from a remote location.  Many IT professionals and users utilize this free feature in Windows 2000/XP/Vista.  Remote desktop is a huge time saver because you do not have to physically be at the computer workstation to control the computer.  Basically, this post will go over how to enable Remote Desktop as well as how to use DynDNS.com’s services to automatically update a chosen host name with the remote PC’s IP address.  The end result: you’ll never have to remember the IP address again.

Enabling Remote Desktop on a Windows PC… Continue reading

Let’s face it, the stock screen protector supplied with the HTC Touch Pro sucks.  It’s too difficult to install since it leaves very little room for error.  If you are off by 1mm, the screen protector will hang of the side just a little.  Over time, the edge of the screen protector will pull up and  all the dust and lint inside your pocket will dig into the screen protector.  Eventually, the whole screen protector will come right off the screen, leaving it naked and prone to scratches.  This is exactly what happened to me after 2 weeks of using… Continue reading

Almost all of us have come to the point where we had to reinstall our operating system whether it be Windows, Linux, or MacOS.  Typically, it would take me about 2 hours on a good day to rebuild a machine by completely reinstalling Windows XP, all drivers, and standard software like Firefox, Office, etc.   However, restoring a system using imaging software such as Acronis True Image takes only 20 minutes.   While I don’t reinstall often, it is a pain when I have to.  This is where making an image of your PC can come in handy; you won’t have… Continue reading

While the HTC Touch Pro comes with an array of applications loaded by default, there are a few good programs they left out, like Google Maps.  After sorting through tons of applications for Windows Mobile, I’ve come up with a list of useful programs to load onto your virgin Touch Pro.

• Advanced Configuration Tool - This program allows you to tweak all sorts of settings
• CorePlayer - Media player.  Plays almost all music/video formats and has better streaming capabilities than the stock Windows Media Player.  TCPMP is not working on the Touch Pro (yet), so this is the next best