Sickles Insight

This video makes fun of modern newbie computer users by illustrating - in a way fully understandable to them - how silly some of their questions are by creating a similar problem in the Middle Ages.
It’s from a show called Øystein & Meg (Øystein & I) produced by the Norwegian Broadcasting television channel (NRK) in […]

Word’s AutoCorrect feature is designed to fix your typos as they occur. You’ve probably noticed that “teh” is changed to “the” and “adn” is changed to “and.” This saves you some time when it comes to editing your document. If you are less observant, you may think you are a better typer than reality […]

Voice Over IP is coming at you whether you are ready or not:
Voice Over IP (VoIP) is an emerging technology for most large businesses today and it’s finding a way into your home more quickly than you may think. There are hundreds of VoIP solutions available to the United States household today, each ranging […]

A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
That’s as verbose as my computer would get. Restarting provided the same exact routine, and although I could access the BIOS - there was nothing there that could help me. My hard disk took a serious hit and I was down and out because of it. At […]

Do you have a Google email address? Chances are that if you do, when you signed up - you left a box checked that enabled your search history to be memorized by the Googlemeisters. Infact, I think that if you had an account from early on - you were probably automatically inducted into this feature. […]

The tweaks found below will increase the maximum simultaneous connections per page for faster browsing. I made this modification over a week ago in Firefox, and I have noticed increased performance.
Firefox Instructions

Open Firefox
Type about:config in the address bar
Filter for ‘network‘
Scroll to find network.http.pipelining - double click to set it to TRUE
Double click pipelining.maxrequests and set […]

I was recently asked why there were pictures of naked girls on this page, and I have to admit - I was a little confused. I knew that I had not yet posted the pictures of any naked girls, and though I display picture advertisements on my webpage driven by Google adsense, I hardly thought […]

I’ve often been asked, ‘how do I create a PDF’ file. I always reply with the same answer - it’s easy, use PrimoPDF. I figured I had to write this down since I was asked twice within several hours today.
Creating a document from content you’ve already created that will display in Adobe Reader is […]