Ideologics

Scheduling applications are often a little complicated to use and are confined to a single PC. One application that isn’t confined to your local PC and actually goes wherever your Facebook goes, is Easy Schedule.

Easy Schedule:

• Allows you to enter events in all weeks of the year.
• Is easily accessible through your Facebook account.
• Can be displayed on your profile so your friends can see what your schedule is for the next seven days.
• Is incredibly easy to use.
• Tallies up each colours’ hours through the week, so if you work multiple jobs you’ll know how many hours you’ve worked just by looking at your schedule.
• Is FREE.

It has a 5 star rating so far, give it a try!

Backing up data is something that many seldom remember to do, but it is one of the most important things we as computer users should do frequently.

Recently, my wife managed to grab her laptop before it fell off the side of the couch. The shock of her hand hitting the case went straight to the hard disk, and suddenly it was full of bad sectors. When it came out of standby, it was freezing constantly. And when we restarted it, it wouldn’t even try to load.

Luckily, I had backed the photographs up in January. However, it is now June. That’s several months of photographs lost. Right now I am copying the drive’s contents to another hard disk, in 3 days it has progressed 12%. It may take the whole month to recover the data.

Moral of the story: If you ever drop your laptop, or do anything to it that isn’t kind, let it be a prompt to back up your data. Yes it will take a few, but an hour plugged into an external hard drive beats 30 days of trying to recover valuable data that might be forever ruined.

I came across a fantastic piece of software recently that I’d like to share with everyone.

eBoostr is a memory caching service. Allow me to elaborate on what it actually does:

When you load an application – for example, Internet Explorer – lots of files have to be loaded from the hard disk. The files are scattered all over the disk, and hard drives take a while to get to all the files. You’ll notice when the hard drve is loading files because the hard drive light will be flashing.

eBoostr takes the files that are accessed most frequently and stores a copy of them on a device that can read faster than the hard drive. You can use your computer’s physical memory / RAM if you have enough of it, or you can purchase a USB storage device (4GB USB key for example) and use it as your caching device.

Whenever your computer tries to access files, eBoostr will check to see if it has a copy available for quick access, and if it does it’ll speed up the reading considerably.

This is a very smart technology, and at less than $40 for the full version, it comes well recommended.

It is compatible with XP, Vista and Windows 7 32-bit editions. Download it here. The trial version works for 2 hours each time you boot up your computer.

Sometimes when you catch a virus, System Restore can present a quick fix.

To use System restore:

1. Go to the Start Menu. In Vista, type System Restore and the program should appear. Otherwise, go to Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Restore.
2. When it has loaded, choose ‘Choose a different restore point’.
3. Select a date where the infection wasn’t present.
4. Click Next, then Finish.

Hopefully, this will remove the infection. Use an anti-virus/spyware application to clean any remaining files.

It’s that time of the year again – the plethora of fake Antivirus applications is growing. Recently I’ve noticed many of my customers getting caught with this one.

Antivirus 2010 is usually caught from less-than-trustworthy websites. It disguises itself as a virus & spyware scanner. After it ‘scans’ your computer it reports many dangerous viruses that need to be removed. This year, the designers have gone a step further and introduced a fake blue screen of death, and security center alerts.

How to get rid of spyware.

To remove Antivirus 2010, simply follow these instructions:

1. First, you can try System Restore to restore yourself to a day when the virus wasn’t present. In many cases, this works. Otherwise continue to the next step.
2. Download and install Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware from here.
3. Once installed, Anti-Malware should start. If it doesn’t, load it manually.
4. Make sure you’re on the ‘Scanner’ tab. Select ‘Perform full scan’ and then click Scan.
5. Sit back and have a cuppa!
6. When it has finished, click the ‘Show Results’ button.
7. Make sure everything in the list is selected, and click ‘Remove Selected’.

At this point, Antivirus 2010 should be gone. If it isn’t, leave a comment and I’ll try to assist further.

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