Data Security

School...work...play... all of the above. Our computers have become an integral part of our daily lives in the 21st century. They are our calculators, our messengers, our televisions, and our teachers. With so much added responsibility to these devices it's no surprise that we keep our most precious items in digital format on them as well. Pictures, videos, and music comprise some of the most difficult to obtain, expensive, and sometimes even priceless data stored onto a computer for all of us. Though this is true, many of us fail to have any backup solution to ensure that these items are "safe" and able to be restored in the event of a system failure or data loss.
Below I have listed a few key points to address when selecting a backup solution as well as a few options that seem to work well.

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Speed Up Your PC

We all have sooooo much going on in our lives that it is simply impossible for us to "please wait" as older versions of Windows will certainly suggest that we do on a fairly regular basis. Why should we though? We spend our hard earned monkey money on these "super" computers and they should do super things at super speeds. Besides no one wants to wait after having to work all day or when we just don't have the time.
Most of us have the need for speed, but don't know where to begin to get there and stay there. Here are a few things to do to stay fast in the computer world.

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Repair or not to Repair

We all come to our homes to greet our window to the worlds, the desktop or laptop of choice, in hopes that all is well and nothing has gone awry since our last peek into the world wide web.

However, our dreams of perfect pc times are shattered when we least expect it by blue screens of death (BSoD), error messages, no power, pop ups, and the light. Simply put our baby is broken or at least sick and we know that something must be done to make it right. We all need our pcs right?
School work, work work, games, small business venues, and much more demand that this now broken thing be fixed, up, and running like greased lightening and FAST. Sooooo off to the local repair shop we go. Let's hope that we get one of those free pc checkup things or at least a good hint at what is wrong with our pc for the sake of putting all of our money into the "fix it" pot instead of wasting some in the "find out what's wrong with it" pot, and we do from time to time. The average cost of repair however is $200 USD!!! Doesn't sound like it's worth the cost to repair it if it's not relatively new or if it was inexpensive to procure to begin with but here are a few things to consider before you make that decision.

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