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Keep Your iPhone Dry, While Diving

Toronto Strap on these goofy goggles http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/Laptop repair near me and you can videotape your adventures under the sea with your iPhone. Aryca, a Chinese company, modified a pair of swimming goggles to include a watertight chamber that encloses an iPhone. The polycarbonate chamber contains a soft membrane and an adjustable mount to prevent water from getting into the case. “People just can’t seem to get away from their iPhones, so we made this accessory so you can Slow mac repair Toronto go diving with it,” said Kenneth Yu, chief executive of Aryca. Mr. Yu said the accessory could keep an iPhone dry as deep as 100 feet. He said the goggles, which cost $40.

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Good Ole 9600 GT

Gaming PCs are the gladiators of the computer world. So while most PCs look http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Laptop repair near me like a cross between a fax machine and a breadbox, the Acer Predator looks as if it came out of the bowels of the Roman Colosseum. The gaming rig, which starts at $1,649 without a monitor, has an Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5-gigahertz processor and an Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT graphics card. The cheapest version comes with 2 gigabytes of memory and two 640-gigabyte hard drives. It also includes an optical disc reader and writer. Acer offers a $400 24-inch display with a maximum resolution of 1,920 by 1,200 pixels. If all those speeds and feeds don’t catch your attention, the PC’s unique case just might. A front panel slides up like armor to reveal four U.S.B. ports and two audio ports. Front ribs mimic the radiator of a Laptop repair Toronto 1950s U.F.O. while the internal cooling system ensures the machine doesn’t go up in smoke. Internal colored lights add a bit of mystery to the proceedings. Most gaming PCs cost about $2,000 without monitors, making the Predator a bit more affordable than some of the other monsters out there.

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CPU Upgrade

Upgrading the computer's central processing unit, orC.P.U. (or microprocessor, as it is often called), is another way to extend the life of an older machine. While the hard drive, with all your programs and personal files, may be the heart of your computer, the C.P.U. is the brain, sending out instructions for the rest of the machine to follow. In an older C.P.U., the rate at which it can send out these instructions is slower, which affects the speed of the computer. Your upgrade options will depend on the type of computer you have, so consult your system's manual or local computer repair shop to see what is possible. Upgrade kits for specific types of machines are available in computer stores. Depending on the type of kit, you may be able to plug in an upgrade to your motherboard or stack the upgrade processor on top https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?search=Laptop repair near me Laptop not charging repair Toronto of your existing one.

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Tech Know

Apple’s reconfigured iMac desktop — a shiny wide-screen example of a home computer — works beautifully ...unless it doesn’t work at all, or arrives with a cracked display. Some reviewers and, judging from a survey of some Mac forums, some users are encountering issues with some new models. The review team at Engadget, for example, http://edition.cnn.com/search/?text=Laptop repair near me found that their new Intel Core i7-based iMac would not boot up. (The 2.8-gigahertz Core i7 processor is sold as a $200 built-to-order option, and isn’t generally offered on machines sold at Apple retail stores.) And TechNews.AM reports that some customers who ordered the Intel Core i7 got cracked display screens, often with the MacBook pro repair near me damage near the bottom left corner, suggesting inadequate shipping packaging. This may give pause to some consumers who have been eyeing the iMac’s gorgeous LED-lighted display and searingly fast processor, although Apple is replacing the products.

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MOTIVATION!

YAMHILL, Ore. - There is a story behind every electronic gadget sold on the QVC shopping channel. This one leads to a ramshackle farmhouse in rural Oregon, which is the home and circuit design lab of Jeri Ellsworth, a 30-year-old high school dropout and self-taught computer chip designer. Ms. Ellsworth has squeezed the entire circuitry of a two-decade-old Commodore 64 home computer onto a single chip, which she has tucked neatly into a joystick that connects by a cable to a TV set. Called the Commodore 64 -- the same as the computer system -- her device can run 30 video games, mostly sports, racing and puzzles games from the early 1980's, all without the hassle of changing game cartridges. She has also included five hidden games and other features -- not found on the original Commodore computer -- that only a fellow hobbyist would be likely to appreciate. For instance, someone who wanted to turn the device into an improved version of the original machine could modify it to add a keyboard, monitor and disk drive. Sold by Mammoth Toys, based in New York, for $30, the Commodore 64 joystick has been a hot item on QVC this Christmas season, selling 70,000 units in one day when it was introduced on the shopping channel last month; since then it has been sold through QVC's Web site. Frank Landi, president of Mammoth, said he expected the joystick would be distributed next year by bigger toy and electronics retailers like Radio Shack, Best Buy, Sears and Toys "R" Us. "To me, any toy that sells 70,000 in a day on QVC is a good indication of the kind of reception we can expect," he said. Ms. Ellworth's http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/Laptop repair near me first venture into toy making has not yet brought her great wealth -- she said she is paid on a consulting basis at a rate that is competitive for her industry -- "but I'm having fun," she said, and she continues with other projects in circuit design as a consultant. Her efforts in reverse-engineering old computers and giving them new life inside modern custom chips has already earned her a cult following among small groups of "retro" personal computer enthusiasts, as well as broad respect among the insular world of the original computer hackers who created the first personal computers three decades ago. (The term "hacker" first referred to people who liked to design and create machines, and only later began to be applied to people who broke into them.) More significant, perhaps, is that in an era of immensely complicated computer systems, huge factories and design teams that stretch across continents, Ms. Ellsworth is demonstrating that the spirit that once led from Silicon Valley garages to companies like Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer can still thrive. "She's a pure example of following your interests and someone who won't accept that you can't do it," said Lee Felsenstein, the designer of the first portable PC and an original member of the Homebrew Computer Club. "She is someone who can do it and do it brilliantly." Ms. Ellsworth said that chip design was an opportunity to search for elegance in simplicity. She takes her greatest pleasure in examining a complex computer circuit and reducing it in cost and size by cleverly reusing basic electronic building blocks. It is a skill that is as much art as science, but one that Ms. Ellsworth has perfected, painstakingly refining her talent by plunging deeply into the minutiae of computer circuit design. Recently she interrupted a conversation with a visitor PC repair Toronto in her home to hunt in between the scattered circuit boards and components in her living room for a 1971 volume, "MOS Integrated Circuits," which she frequently consults. The book concerns an earlier chip technology based on fewer transistors than are used today. "I look for older texts," she said. "A real good designer needs to know how the old stuff works." Several years ago Ms. Ellsworth cornered Stephen Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, at a festival for vintage Apple computers and badgered him for the secrets of his Apple II floppy disk controller. "I was very impressed with her knowledge of all this stuff, and her interest too," recalled Mr. Wozniak, whose fascination with hobbyist computers three decades ago helped create the personal computer industry. She attributes her passion for design simplicity to her youth in Dallas, Ore., 35 miles south of Yamhill, where she was raised by her father, Jim Ellsworth, a mechanic who owned the local Mobil station. She became a computer hobbyist early, begging her father at age 7 to let her use a Commodore 64 computer originally purchased for her brother, and then learning to program it by reading the manuals that came with the machine. In a tiny rural town without access even to a surplus electronics store, her best sources of parts were the neighborhood ham radio operators. She learned to make the most of her scarce resources. "It goes back to necessity," she said. "It went back to not having enough parts to design with when I was a kid." Her first business foray came during high school when she began designing and selling the dirt-track race cars that she had been driving with her farther. Using his service station as a workshop, she was soon making so much money selling her custom race cars that she dropped out of high school. It was fun for several years, she said, but eventually she decided that she needed to get away from the race car scene. A friend had an early Intel 486-based PC and thought they could make money assembling and selling computers. She decided he was right: "I looked at the margins and it seemed like a great way to make money." They went into business together in 1995, but soon had a falling out and split up. For a short time Ms. Ellsworth considered leaving the computer business. Instead, she opened a store near that of her former partner, then drove him out of business. Ultimately her store became a chain of five Computers Made Easy shops in small towns. "My business model was to find areas that were far enough away from the big cities where the larger stores were," she said. "I could generate a lot of loyalty and charge a bit more. It worked out well for quite a while." Eventually, the collapsing price of the PC made it impossible to survive, she said, and in 2000 she sold off her stores. "When the machines got down to $75 margins, then even putting a technician on the phone to answer a question meant you were almost losing money," she said. Free from her business obligations, she decided to return to her first love -- hobbyist electronics. She was eager to study computer hardware design, but soon found that there weren't many options for a high school dropout. She moved to Walla Walla, Wash., and began attending Walla Walla College, a Seventh Day Adventist school that offered a circuit design program. Her attempt at a formal education lasted less than a year, however. She was a cultural mismatch for the school, where she said questioning the professors' answers was frowned upon. "I felt like a wolf in sheep's clothing," she said. On her own again, Ms. Ellsworth decided to pursue her passion, designing computer circuits that mimicked the behavior of her first Commodore. She turned to a series of mentors and availed herself of free software design tools offered by chip companies. Her hobby produced a chameleon computer called the C-1. Changing its basic software could make it mimic not only a Commodore 64, but ultimately more than nine other popular home computers of the early 1980's, including the Atari, TI, Vic and Sinclair. Two years ago she showed it off at the Hackers' Conference, an annual meeting of some of the nation's best computer designers. To her surprise, she received a rousing ovation -- and a series of job offers. One person who took notice was Andrew Singer, a computer scientist who is chief executive of Rapport Inc., a start-up based in Mountain View, Calif. Mr. Singer contracted with Ms. Ellsworth as a consultant and has since found that she has abilities that engineers with advanced degrees often do not. "It's possible to get a credential and not have passion," he said. He compared Ms. Ellsworth to Mr. Wozniak and to Burrell Smith, the hardware designer of the original Macintosh. Neither had formal training when they made their most significant contributions at Apple. Ms. Ellsworth was also discovered by Mammoth toys, which hired her to design the Commodore-emulating chip for the joystick. She began the project late last June and finished, including a frantic last-minute trip to a Chinese manufacturing factory, in early September -- a design sprint fueled by Mountain Dew and 20-hour days. "It worked out tremendously well for our company," said Mr. Landi, president of Mammoth. "It has entirely changed the way we design electronic toys." He said that he has signed Ms. Ellsworth up for a series of design projects, although he would not divulge the financial details. Old-fashioned video games like the ones on Ms. Ellsworth's product have become less common recently because kids have grown jaded and expect a "wow" factor, like intense graphics or realistic images that older computers could not produce, said Shyam Nagrani, principle consumer electronics analyst for iSupply, a market research firm based in El Segundo, Calif. He added, however, "The parents are likely to pick this up and say, 'Why not? The kids may like it."' When the C64, as the joystick is called informally, appeared on QVC last month, Ms. Ellsworth watched with obvious pride. "It was one of one of the best projects I've ever done in my life," she said. "It was a tribute back to the computer that started it all for me." 384 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1S8 www.KasawaK.ca

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Samsung Needs To Step Up The Game On Safty

SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it expected about $3 billion in operating profits to evaporate over the next two quarters because of its decision to ditch the troubled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. Authorities in the United States announced a ban on Galaxy Note 7s aboard airplanes, citing the risk of fire. Previously the Federal Aviation Administration had urged passengers to turn off and not charge the phones aboard planes. Samsung said in a news release that the MacBook repair Toronto reduction in profits tied to that decision was expected to be in the mid-2 trillion won range in the October-December period and about 1 trillion won, or $900 million, for the first quarter of next year. Since its decision to recall millions of Note 7 devices and end production of the model, Samsung has been readjusting profit estimates. On Wednesday, it revised its previously estimated profit of 7.8 trillion won for the third quarter, cutting it to 5.2 trillion won. With http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/Laptop repair near me the Note 7, Samsung had hoped to compete with Apple’s iPhones in the high-end smartphone market. But after some of the Note 7s were reported to heat rapidly and catch fire, it faced one of the biggest and most costly product recalls in the technology industry. “Moving forward, Samsung Electronics plans to normalize its mobile business by expanding sales of flagship models such as the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge,” the company said in a statement. “Additionally, the company will focus on enhancing product safety for consumers by making significant changes in its quality assurance processes.” 384 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1S8 www.KasawaK.ca

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Microsoft Project

There are a number of project managers today that use Microsoft Project to create and track project plans to keep tasks on schedule. Project is a fine application for small endeavors with one person in charge. However as a project grows and more decision makers are involved, managers need an application that can provide enterprise-wide project management. On-line Management with Project Server When coordinating a large venture, basic management tools like Microsoft Project may not serve the manager's needs. It is a standalone application that can be used only on one computer. All project information is in one place and all decisions can be made only at that computer. Once there is a large endeavor with a management team, this lack of access becomes a problem. What is needed is a project management tool that can be shared company-wide and allow all managers to track their respective tasks without needing to wait for printed reports. Project Server was designed with exactly that capability in mind. All team members can access the application from anywhere on the company network or over the web. Coordination and communication is easier when everyone is on the same page. Each Team Member Has a Role Just because everyone can access the software, that doesn't mean everyone has the same capabilities. Individuals are given permissions appropriate to their role in the plan and in the company. Project managers use the basic Project Professional application just like they have in the past. However their updates and changes are transmitted to the server where they can be viewed by other managers and incorporated in their plans. Team members who don't use Project directly can still access the server to see what their tasks are, what the status of the overall plan is, and can send status reports to be used Laptop charging port repair Toronto by managers. Even interested parties not directly involved in completion of the tasks, such as executives or investors, can be given access over the company network or the web so they can monitor the progress. Comprehensive security settings ensure that each person is given needed access without any excess privileges. Project Server Training Even experienced users of Microsoft Project will benefit from training on the unique capabilities of Project Server. The enterprise-level features of the software greatly increase the size of the projects that can be handled but may not be obvious to new users. Tasks such as team building, resource substitution, and information pooling can be used more effectively after taking instructor-led courses. The transition from Project to Project Server is a major step for any http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/Laptop repair near me business but with guidance and proper planning, it is a move that can be made with a minimum of complication. The added capabilities will be invaluable to any mid-size to large business. 384 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1S8 www.KasawaK.ca

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Guide To Buying A Laptop

Selecting right laptop computer with appropriate configuration and affordable price depends on how clear you are about your computer usage, in other sense matching your requirement to the one with appropriate features and price. Since its inception almost 20 years ago the first stop for cheap laptop computers happen to be computer shops, malls and IT bazaars, however this trend has completely change over the last at least 5-7 years as online shopping started to take momentum and increasingly popular. Identify your need as what kind of user you are? We can classify computer usage into different segments i.e. Home User, Student, Business User (of course there are other categories of users as well i.e. Gamers, Multimedia Pros but we are just taking the broad users). Now let's discuss each of these segments in bit details Home User Every day more and more home users are turning laptop user and making laptop computer their main PC as home users use their computer to do different kinds of work i.e. email, surfing internet, keeping in touch with friends family, paying bills, online shopping, entertainment, music and list goes on. If you fall into this category of user then you perhaps need a laptop with large hard disk, an average processor speed and normal RAM i.e. Intel Pentium 1.0 Ghz processor speed, 100 GB Hard Drive 1 GB Ram with all other multimedia and wireless features 15 inch display should be fine. Student User It's not possible to study without having your own computer and laptop computer is becoming obvious choice for students as they would like to carry it to their classroom, home, and hostel or where ever they want. A lot of students are switching to use Netbook rather than Notebook, as Netbook's are sleek, light weight and does the job a student would like to pretty fairly. Students generally like to buy cheap laptop computers that can deliver what they want and some kind of ruggedness as well. The kind of features or specification a student should go for would be Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz processor speed, 300 GB Hard Drive, 2-3 GB Ram, DVD burners, wireless networking and standard multimedia stuff Business User Business is unthinkable without extensive usage of computer and what better option a business user can have than having a good laptop computer. As a business user you need a laptop which is sleek, light weight, high speed processor, huge hard drive and large RAM with complete wireless and multimedia feature. If your work involves basic office work i.e. word document, excel spread sheet and power point presentation, emailing then you don't need a heavy duty laptop computer. In light usage you will have lot of option for cheap laptop computers, low end laptops with just basic features. For high end users who run mission critical applications, present demos to clients, compile or read complex reports there are plenty of options as well. For power business user the ideal configuration would be Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo processor with speed of 3.0+ Ghz speed, 500 GB Hard Drive, 4 GB Ram, large display of 17 inch, Graphic Card, Memory Reader, CD/DVD, Wireless, Bluetooth All the above three categories can find plenty of options Slow mac repair near me as far as brand is concern i.e. Dell, HP, Toshiba, Sony, Acer Apple. Each of these brands has a perfect choice for the category you falls in. You can find cheap laptop computers or cheap laptops sale by simply browsing different deals and shopping comparison https://en.search.wordpress.com/?src=organic&q=Laptop repair near me web sites. 384 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1S8 www.KasawaK.ca

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Computer tech

This month, I bought a retro Atari gaming console for $39.99 at a Bed Bath Beyond in Toronto ontario. It was a few feet from a set of Calphalon pots and pans and a display of oven mitts 11 rows deep. So that tells you something about the intended audience. “I can’t believe they still sell these,” the cashier, Vanessa, said. Somehow, Atari never dies. The console, known as the Flashback, was one of the best-selling items in early November at Dollar General, one of the nation’s largest chains. Considering that Atari is down to a mere 18 employees, perhaps no company is squeezing more nostalgia out of an old product this holiday shopping season. Atari once employed Steve Jobs as a technician and became an icon of the early home computing age, but then the company had a succession of near-death experiences. Started in 1972, Atari was named by one of its founders, Nolan Bushnell, for a move in the ancient Asian game of Go. “Atari was what you said to your opponent if you put their stones in jeopardy, kind of like check in chess,” Mr. Bushnell explained in an interview. “I just thought it was a cool word and a cool name.” He sold his stake to Warner Communications in 1976. When the video game industry cratered amid a price war in the mid-1980s, Warner sold off Atari’s home entertainment business. Then it was sold again in the Virus removal near me mid-1990s and again in 1998, to Hasbro Interactive for just $5 million. I could go on. Suffice it to say that in the 2000s, an obscure French company took over, a hedge fund got involved, and there was a 2013 bankruptcy filing in the United States. Today, the company is listed in France and down to a skeleton crew, mostly in New York. Operations are almost entirely outsourced to companies like Los Angeles-based AtGames, which builds the Flashback consoles at a factory in China. Through all this, fans have helped keep Atari alive. “I became a computer engineer because I fell in love with technology through Atari,” said Curt Vendel, a most devoted Atari buff and a computer engineer. The first time I met Mr. Vendel was in 1999, when he lived on Staten Island. He was running something called the Atari Historical Society, a virtual archive built on a voluminous personal collection spanning Atari coffee mugs and a couple Androbots, which were clunky robots built by a different company backed by Mr. Bushnell. Mr. Vendel collected the company’s discarded engineering notes and chip schematics by Dumpster diving behind Atari’s old headquarters in California. A few years after our meeting, he began talking with Hasbro Interactive about a retro Atari console, and it asked him to develop one. “Atari shaped my life,” said Mr. Vendel, who consulted with Atari for a few years afterward. “It made technology approachable.” The Flashback is on its eighth version. The current company would say little about its sales or demographics, beyond that it sold more than 300,000 Flashbacks last year. Frédéric Chesnais, the chief executive, summed up the appeal: “It’s simple, it’s addictive, you can have a fun experience in a couple of minutes.” The Atari I bought at Bed Bath Beyond is the first one I’ve ever owned. Don’t get me started. My mother would never let me have one, a deprivation she and I are still working through — or at least I am. At any rate, it only intensified my craving for video games, because I had to wait to play until I went over to friends’ houses. I remember the stiff and unforgiving Atari joysticks, the white noise of Combat, the feel of the chunky game cassettes. Back then, video games were in their gestational, Cubist period. Images rendered in rectangles and squares were good enough. To be clear, my official position on video games in my own house is hostile and can involve shouting. I once ripped our Nintendo Wii console from our television and stormed off with it, only to a find that a small and aggrieved child had attached himself to one of my legs like a mollusk. My current thinking is not uniformly supported by research. A working paper put out this summer by the National Bureau of Economic Research cited video games as a reason young men are working fewer hours. But broader examinations of video games offer a range of positives and negatives. And it can depend on what you play. One study found that Call of Duty shrank the hippocampus area of the brain, while Super Mario caused it to expand. I just think they are a waste of time and never play them anymore. Well, there was a brief and dominating run at Wii tennis. And I’m not counting Words With Friends. Or the Boggle app on my phone, because I use that strictly to expand my hippocampus. All right, I have things to do. I opened up the Atari box and fumbled through the directions. I began running through the more than 100 games. Asteroids came first. I backed into a giant rock, then careened into an enemy ship. Weak start. Millipede quickly spiraled out of control. Things turned around a bit during Missile Command, and I had a strong run on Space Invaders. “The games, while crude — graphically crude — the actual game play was very finely crafted because we couldn’t rely on sound and graphics,” Mr. Bushnell said. “We had to make the games really fun.” Perhaps Atari will never die. Well, when Generation X dies, then it might. But we still have some time on the clock. I turned to Pitfall. My muscle memory continued to falter. I jumped for a rope and plunged into a tar pit, then got hold of the rope but couldn’t figure out how to let go. It was humbling. It’s O.K. I have big plans for Frogger.

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Intel micro processor

Over the last year, Apple, Google and other big technology companies have faced mounting criticism by civil rights leaders about the lack of diversity in their work forces, which are populated mostly by white and Asian men. Now Intel, the giant chip maker, is taking more concrete steps to do something about it, Nick Wingfield reports. On Tuesday, Intel said the company’s work force would better reflect the available talent pool of women and underrepresented minority groups in the United States within five years. If successful, the plan would increase the population of women, blacks, Hispanics and other groups at Intel by at least 14 percent during that period, the PC repair Toronto company said. In addition, Intel said it has established a $300 million fund to be used in the next three years to improve the diversity of the company’s work force, attract more women and minorities to the technology field and make the industry more hospitable to them once they get there. The money will be used to fund engineering scholarships and to support historically black colleges and universities. Read more 384 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1S8 www.KasawaK.ca

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Why does play store keep asking to finish setting up account

Q. Every time I download a free app from the Google Play store on my Android tablet, it wants me to “finish setting up my account.” I thought I already had an account, because I’ve been downloading apps and I just press Skip on the next screen to go on. Why does it keep bothering me with this? I don’t want to enter my credit card number and have it on file there. A. Even though you are downloading free apps from the store, Google Play would like you to supply a payment method in case you ever do decide to purchase software or services that cost money. The top part of the alert box displays the payment options. As long as you keep skipping the request to add a payment method, Google will probably keep asking Data recovery near me you to finish setting up your account each time you try to download an app or other free item from the store. If you do not want to cough up your credit card number and are tired of the nagging, you can add alternative forms of payment like PayPal or Google Play gift cards to your account settings instead. If you have a PayPal account but do not wish to use that, either, adding a Google Play gift card as your payment method is relatively cheap and easy. (You can also use PayPal to buy a Google Play gift card code as well, and digital versions of the cards can be purchased from many retailers you may already use.) If you prefer to pay in cash, plastic Google Play gift cards with scratch-off codes are available at many popular stores, including Best Buy, CVS Pharmacy, Dollar General, Target, Walgreens and Walmart. You can buy a gift card with a $10 bill, enter the redemption code on the back into the “Complete account setup” box and hopefully not be pestered again for a payment method.

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Block that trojan

The Vundo virus has been a consistent problem for many over and over again on the internet for over 5 years now. It is one of the most annoying computer viruses due to the fact of its slow takeover of your system, as Check out here the longer that the Trojan horse lives in your system the harder it is to remove and the slower your computer will get. The win32/adware.virtumonde virus is another name for the Trojan horse that gets into your operating system through Java. Java is still OK on your computer so don't delete it, but the w32 vundo will attach to your BHO and DLL files. After this has happened the virus will be much harder to remove as so many objects are running in the background of your computer that you don't even know about, they will cause havoc eventually. All of this technical jargon just means that after this Trojan really has a hold of your system you will probably need help to delete it, unless you have a really good knowledge of computers' operating functions. How can you tell for sure that you have some variation of vundo? The only 100% way to tell what computer virus you have is either running a scan with a antivirus computer program that alerts you of the problem, I use Spyware Doctor by PC Tools, or by finding the files on your computer somewhere deep within the registry. Usually a program like Norton or McAfee will alert you that the virus has infected your computer to some extent, but then it will try and remove it and usually fail. There are a few ways to tell if your computer is definitely infected with some sort of Trojan virus: If your windows alert in the bottom right hand corner of your screen is popping up that your computer is infected and tells you to click on the icon to fix it, your system has been hijacked in most cases and the pop up is a file of the virus trying to get you to download more and more spyware. Your computer is very slow considering how new or fast it is for no reason is a good sign that there are some Trojan viruses at work. Pop-ups are the biggest sign, either full screens or ads that you don't click on will begin to pop up over and over again. So Now that you think you have win32 vundo, or some other variation how do you delete it for good? If you are not very good with computers, it will most likely be impossible or very time consuming for you to remove the virus yourself or for free. Sorry I know that stings but it is the plain truth. I have found that Spyware Doctor By PC Tools is by far the best in the business at both removing an installed vundo virus, and also at stopping many future infections in their tracks. I do use Spyware Doctor myself and have removed vundo, virutmonde, zlob, adware.agent, antivirus 360, and other from my computer quickly and easily. If you are on the internet a lot and you need your computer, a good spyware/antivirus program is very necessary for keeping your computer out of harm's way. 384 Yonge street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1S8 www.KasawaK.ca

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General guide on how to replace your broken laptop screen

Rough handling very easily damages a laptop screen. Before buying and changing the screen, you will want to make sure that it is definitely faulty. You may see cracks on the screen, a dark image, a flickering display, colors missing or no image whatsoever. If the screen has cracks that may look like ink leaking from a spider's web, then someone has broken it, and a replacement will be necessary. However, other subtle faults can occur because of damage to the screens that are much harder to spot. You will need to undertake other tests and observations to decide whether the screen is, in fact, faulty or not, I will not be considering them in this article. There are many types and sizes of laptop screens available. Although, you may consider fitting a different screen to your laptop, problems associated with screen resolution or the image not fully filling the display may occur. Therefore, it is always advisable to replace a screen with exactly the same make and model as the original one fitted by the manufacturer. You can always find these details on a bar code label on the reverse of the screen. Removal Additional info of the screen is generally quite easy as you do not have to be too careful about damaging or scratching it, but before starting, you should remove the battery. Removal methods vary from one laptop model to another. However, you will generally find between 4 - 6 screws located behind rubber or plastic caps on the screen bezel. When removing the caps be careful not to lose or damage them, as you will need to replace them after the repair. Once the screws are removed you can remove the bezel; it is sometimes clipped, glued or both. So moderate pressure may be required. On some makes of laptop, notably the HP range, part of the upper palm rest must be removed before the lower part of the screen bezel can be fully removed. The laptop screen is fixed to the lid hinges by 4 to 8 screws; you should remove them with a small cross point screwdriver. Lay the screen down and remove the connector linking it to the laptop. Usually, you will find sticky tape attached to this connector so remove this first and gently ease the connector from the screen. Try to pull the connector rather than the cable. If the screen is of the older type, there will be a second two-pin connector linking it to the inverter usually found at the bottom of the screen. Carefully remove this connection and you will now be able to remove the old screen from the laptop. Installation of the new screen is the reverse of removal; however, you must take great care not to damage it. Here are a few tips to help. When connecting the screen data cable insure that you insert it evenly using gentle fingertip pressure. You can easily damage a screen if you apply pressure almost anywhere but especially where the electronic circuit board is located. Remember to replace the sticky tape pads as this stops the wire detaching from the connector. Never use force when replacing the bezel; it should easily clip back into place. Above all, make sure you do not crack or scratch the new screen. Replacing a laptop screen is usually straightforward provided you have the correct tools and are very gently when handling and installing the new screen. 384 Yonge street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1S8 www.KasawaK.ca

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What is a computer virus?

A computer program capable of copying itself and infecting a computer without even the user's permission or knowledge is known as a computer virus. When the host of a computer virus is carried to an uninfected computer, then the virus spreads from one computer to the other. Viruses get transferred over a network, Internet or through removable mediums like floppy disk, CD and USB drive. There are three basic categories of computer viruses which are boot infectors, system infectors and generic application infectors. The boot sectors of diskettes and hard disks are attacked by the boot infectors. During the first access of a diskette the virus transfers itself to the sector 0 of the diskette and it then spreads to the system that are booted from this diskette. The Pakistani Brain Virus is an example of a boot infector. The system infectors are found to be attached to the operating system modules and Lehigh virus Slow PC repair Toronto is a typical example. The Generic application infectors have the capability to harm any application program. Well known viruses of this kind include the Israeli Virus and the Scores Virus. There are various theories and controversies regarding the first known computer virus. But majority support the view that The Creeper was the first virus that was detected on ARPANET which happens to be the forerunner of the internet in the 1970s. It found its way through the TENEX operating system and had the capability to use any linked modem to dial out to all remote computers for the purpose of infecting them. There are again beliefs about "Rother J" to be the first computer virus to have appeared "in the wild" which means outside the lab or the single computer where it originated. But the truth is that, it was the first virus to infect computers "in the home". A boot sector virus called The Brain was the first PC virus which appeared in the wild. In 1986, Farooq Alvi Brothers from Pakistan created this virus with the aim of discouraging pirated copies of software written by them. CIH and Melissa are two well known viruses which created disasters in the years 1998 and 1999 respectively. The estimated amount of damage that CIH created was 20 to 80 million dollars. This virus originated from Taiwan and Windows 95, 98, and ME executable files were its main targets. This virus found its residence in a PC's memory. Soon after its activation, it started overwriting data on the host PC' hard drive and as a result it made it inoperable. It also prevented boot-up of the host by overwriting the BIOS of the host. Although it caused disasters and losses at some point of time but it is not a serious threat nowadays because of the migrations to Windows 2000, XP, and NT which are not susceptible to CIH. Melissa caused an estimated damage of 300 to 600 million dollars. This was a word macro script that infected the business PCs. The rapid spread of the virus made Intel, Microsoft and other companies that were using Outlook to shut their total e- mail systems down! This virus used the e- mail lists of the user of Microsoft Outlook to e- mail itself in the form of a .DOC file as attachment. Unsuspected receivers opened the file and got their systems infected. There are a number of destructive viruses like Blaster, Bagle, MyDoom, Sasserbut I LOVE YOU released in 2000 deserves special mention. This acted like Melissa by e- mail itself with an irresistible message: I love You. It even used to find the IDs and passwords of the users of infected machines to send e- mails to its author. The amount of damage was estimated as 10 to 15 dollars. The irony is that Philippines had no law against computer viruses at that time and so it failed to punish the author of I LOVE YOU who was from Philippines itself! 384 Yonge street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1S8 www.KasawaK.ca

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Data recovery

Recovering lost data is expensive. Regardless of whether you will attempt to recovery your data yourself, or send your hard drive out for recovery, the cost is quite prohibitive. The only way to guarantee that you will never require such a service is to continually make backup copies of your files and to store them securely. Even this is not really a guarantee, but it will provide you with the security of knowing that if you computer should crash or experience major hardware failures, your data can be recreated. Data recovery is the process where lost data is recovered from broken, damaged or inaccessible media storage or hard drives. Data recovery can also be used to explain the process of restoring lost or deleted files on a hard drive. There are many different data recovery software packages available to consumers who prefer to attempt restore data themselves. However, in most situations when a hard drive needs to be recovered, the only option is to send it to a service provider who is skilled at data restoration. Here are some of the applications that you might want to try if attempting recovery on your own: 1. File Recovery for Windows by Active @ Data Recovery Services 2. File Recover 6.1 for Windows by PC Tools Software 3. GetDataBack by Runtime Software 4. Recover My Files by GetData 5. R-Undelete by R-tools Technology Inc. 6. Undelete 5 by Diskeeper Corporation 7. WinUndelete by WinRecovery Software These software packages range in price and level of effectiveness. Here are some useful things that you should know, courtesy of [http://www.800tech.com:] 1) Back up As mentioned above, you should back up your data routinely. Having a back up copy of your data is one of the best defenses against lost data and the need for recovery in the first place. 2) Hard disk noise Anytime you hear a churning or clicking noise inside of your computer it means trouble. You should seek assistance as soon as possible from an authorized repair center. 3) Do not attempt the Recovery If you face any problem of data loss, do not attempt to recover data yourself unless you are an expert. Attempting the data recovery your self from the hard disk may further complicate the problems. If you are in need of data recovery services, you should always work with a recovery center that guarantees their process. You should never be charged for unsuccessful data recovery, and you should be permitted to see your data before you are charged for the service. You should also be given an accurate quote for the total recovery cost before work begins. A certified quality recovery service provider like 800Tech.com can help you with the process of recovering lost or https://www.kasawak.ca damaged data at the best price and within the shortest amount of time in the industry. You should never pay for unsuccessful recovery efforts, and also be sure that the company with whom you work guarantees the viability of your data in a contract prior to beginning work. Access to filenames is great, but what you need is content. 384 Yonge street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1S8 www.KasawaK.ca

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Computer repair

A respected Pc repair assistance-provider is noted to the crystal clear perfectly-described services and providers which might be provided to the customer. They usually abide by a action-by-stage course of action in all consumer interactions as well as their staff are well-qualified with gentle competencies together with technical know-how to deal correctly with clients and purchasers and preserve discipline and place of work ethics in the organization premises. Some noteworthy functions in fantastic computer mend solutions are: An excellent very well-knit team of experienced experts is A vital aspect of any Pc repair support. They've got passed through the appropriate technological certifications, hold legitimate licenses and possess superior hands-on experience. All trainees or freshers in the Group adhere to a very well-described path and so are presented excellent mentoring and possess to go through a prescribed apprenticeship route. Personnel also goes by way of refresher courses, attends new products promotional workshops and teaching periods structured by significant specialized organizations. Some Laptop fix corporations specialize in a particular sector - e.g. Windows or Mac or a specific components plus they get the standing for getting experts in troubleshooting, repairs, sourcing spares and wonderful helpdesk services On this distinct space rather then attempting to tackle too many other kinds of systems. Usually, the course of action in deciding upon a repair service-company strategy is well PC repair Ryerson university charted - commencing with searching through their website and deciding upon the approach that appears appropriate for your requirements, to studying throughout the terms and conditions, asking for clarifications And at last signing the contract. Numerous huge company-companies continue to keep prospects current about the latest developments in the field via regular newsletters, club memberships and seminars. Scaled-down kinds have a far more personal romantic relationship with their customers. A single means of trying to keep buyers and attracting new kinds is through very good gives and giveaways. Freebies like utilities or applications tend to be provided to regular consumers. Additionally, there are superior services like 24x7 helpdesk or chat obtain, wherever-whenever aid, no-obligation assessments and repair programs at competitive charges. Facts recovery and security of your individual info, concierge expert services for pick-up and drop-off, cost-free support Discount coupons, use of their own expertise base and no cost consultation are a few fantastic price-provides that a very good Computer system repair service offers. Some services even assign focused staff to you personally In case you are a high-worth customer or an organization with numerous programs on routine maintenance contract. This offers a more individualized contact into the provider. The customer's convenience amounts can also be better For the reason that technician is totally acquainted with their historical past and one of a kind desires. Whilst Choosing the right Laptop repair assistance, it's superior to buy all-around a little bit and check out the various insert-on providers which are on offer you with unique providers.