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Welcome to High Tech House Calls
Greetings!
We are Experts in Integrating Apple and Windows Based Systems!
We Offer Technical Support and Tutorials For Computers, Networks, and Smartphones at your convenience, in your home or small business.
Got bugs and spyware on your mind?
Is your system down?
Are You Behind in Work?
Did your child download a virus... or worse?
Do your network problems make you feel cursed?
Call High Tech House Calls at 404.229.0839 to schedule an appointment.
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TiVo Broken? How to Fix It.
If you have unplugged and and then plugged your TiVo back in, but the familiar cartoon-like TiVo character is not dancing across your TV screen and you cannot hear the TiVo background music, the hard drive has probably crashed. Your TiVo is a desktop computer that uses your TV as a monitor. The Operating System and all your programs are stored on a hard drive. If the hard drive on your desktop computer crashes, you would replace the hard drive and re-load all the software that came with the computer and that you bought in the first place. If your TiVo hard drive crashes, all your previously stored programs that had been recorded are gone with the crashed hard drive along with all your recording preferences such as season passes. How do you re-load the TiVo software? You don't. You buy a pre-loaded hard drive and follow their directions that come with the replacement hard drive on how to install the new hard drive. Once the replacement hard drive has been installed, you plug your TiVo back in, re-connect it to the TV and the cable system and re-program it to recognize your cable system and re-program all your preferences all over again. Here is a link to a company that can supply you with a pre-formatted hard drive for your particular TiVo system: http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/index.php |
Free Software to Display If Your Mac Hard Drive is Failing
In a previous newsletter, I talked about how to determine if your Apple hard drive was failing.
Click here to read previous newsletter:
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs033/1101353862685/archive/1105747790161.html
SmartReporter will read your S.M.A.R.T. status every 15 minutes and alert you to a hard drive that is starting to fail. S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. Here is the link to the software:
http://download.cnet.com/SMARTReporter/3000-2086_4-49263.html
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Upgrading to Mac OS 10.7 Lion For Your Apple Computer?
Lion is the newest release of the Mac OS 10.x Operating System for laptops and workstations.
Due to be released in July 2011, Lion will only be available via the Application Store Application that is installed on your computer instead of the normal DVD you would purchase online or from a store. The Application Store concept downloads software as iTunes downloads music.
If you bought your computer after June 6, 2011, the upgrade to Lion may be free. Click on this link to see if you qualify: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
It not unusual that application software you currently have installed will not run with a major Operating System upgrade such as Lion as this is the case with Quicken. Do your research carefully on what the real cost of the upgrade will be. For example, if you have to buy new versions of applications that run fine on your current Operating System, it may be more expensive than anticipated.
Once you decide that you want to upgrade, how do you tell if you meet the requirements to upgrade your computer?
- If you are running an Apple computer that does not have an Intel Processor such as an iBook G4, you cannot install Lion. The last Operating System release that supported your computer was Leopard (10.5.8). How do you tell what release of the operating system you are running and if you are running an Intel Processor? Click the Apple Icon in the upper left corner of your screen and select About This Mac.
- If your computer processor is an Intel Processor, you must have Snow Leopard (10.6) loaded on your computer to have the Application Store App loaded on it. Therefore, you cannot upgrade directly from a pre-Snow Leopard release of the Operating System to Lion.You must purchase Snow Leopard first for $29.99 from a store or online vendor and install it in order to have the Application Store App installed.
- Once you meet the requirements for an upgrade to Lion, purchase and download Lion from the Application Store.I would suggest you wait a week or so after Lion is available to see if you can expect any problems with the upgrade.
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