Viruses and what to do about them
Viruses. Spyware. Malware. Scareware. Worms. Chances are you or someone you know has been affected by one of these little buggers at some point. If not, count yourself among the lucky. Almost all users will be hit more than once in their computing lifetimes. Viruses have progressed from little annoyances that only displayed unwanted messages [...]
read moreHard Drive Prices
If you follow prices of computer parts at all, you’ve probably noticed the sharp increase in prices of hard drives recently. This is due to flooding in Thailand where several parts of hard drives for all of the major manufacturers are produced. This has caused a shortage of parts to make hard drives, causing the [...]
read moreSmall Business Saturday with American Express
American Express is having a Small Business Saturday on November 27th. On that day only, bring in your American Express card to UNI Computers and spend $25 or more. American Express will credit your statement by $25! See the facebook link above for details and enrollment information.
read moreWindows 8 release date leaked!
It looks like the Windows 8 release date has been accidentally leaked from Microsoft Netherlands. It looks like October 2012 is the current release date. If this is the case, and not just a rumor, then we should be able to expect Windows 8 beta editions early in 2012. After the success of Windows 7, [...]
read moreBest of Lawrence!
The US Commerce Association just awarded us “Best of Lawrence 2010″ in “Personal Computers”! We are greatly honored and humbled to receive this award. I always see these “Best of Lawrence” at great establishments around town, and am very proud to be counted among them!
read moreMalware infection chart by browser type
Here’s an interesting site I ran across today. It shows the browser infection rate of the most popular web browsers currently out. Check it out.
read moreUbuntu 10.10 is available!
For all of you linux users, Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), is now available. Head over to Ubuntu’s site and pick it up! We are going to stick with ubuntu 10.04 LTS for now on our inhouse fileservers, but will be staying tuned to how 10.10 progresses.
read moreGoogle Instant Search
So I was on Google today (I know, shocker) and I noticed that as I typed, I started getting search results instantly, which changed and auto-refined as I typed more. Insane. If you haven’t been to Google today, get over there now and check it out. Amazing. My searches are now 2 sec faster. Life [...]
read moreMove your files from your old PC to your new one, and it actually works!
I know this might sound weird coming from a computer guy, but I hadn’t had a chance to mess with the Windows 7 “Windows Easy Transfer” which allows you to move all of your stuff from an older machine to your new Windows 7 machine. Microsoft had this functionality back in Windows XP, but it [...]
read moreSolar Charging for your iPhone
Are you like me? Are you constantly running out of juice on your cell phone? Did you forget to plug it in last night? If so, never fear, solar charging is here to save the day! Novothink has released an Apple-certified solar charging case for iPhones. They claim two hours of direct sunlight will give [...]
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Hard drive prices will soon be rising. I just got a notice from our main vendor that they have been rising... http://t.co/VORAwI47October 20, 2011 at 3:01 pm
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