People ask me all the time where they can dispose of their old electronics. There’s a recycle center at Morgan Falls in Sandy Springs that I used to exclusively recommend, but now Goodwill in Dunwoody takes equipment. They don’t charge for TVs and CRT monitors like most places. I dropped off a laundry basket full…
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Scams To Watch Out For
The first scam is a television ad / radio ad campaign for doublemyspeed.com. It also goes by other names such as maxspeed.com, mycleanpc.com, etc. It is a sales pitch by a company called Cyberdefender that has a few third rate registry cleaning tools. If you want to clean your registry, which will speed up your…
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Dunwoody PC Selected as #1 Choice for Computer Repair
I really appreciate the support of our customers in making Dunwoody PC the #1 ranked computer repair service in Dunwoody, GA by The Aha! Connection. "Eighteen of the forty-eight (37.5%) were recs for Dunwoody PC." - Audra Anders, The Aha! Connection
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Technology should be easy to a geek, right?
Ok, so I am in the market for a new DVD player that also streams Netflix that is also wireless. So, every blog/review/ancient Indian scroll says to buy the LG 570. It's a blu-ray player that streams and is wireless. So I buy one at BrandSmart. I take it home. It works great, connects up…
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Geek Squad costs HOW much?
Did you know that if GeekSquad comes to your home and removes viruses/spyware et al, its a $299 charge. It's nice to know that Dunwoody PC is local, and usually does it for half of that.
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Affiliate Marketing – Save
I am going to start this note the same way that the utility multilevel marketing resellers work. “You need natural gas, why not buy it from me and then find people to buy it from you!? It’s a no-brainer!” The same applies to buying stuff off of the web. The web site that just linked…
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Dunwoody PC Top 10 List
Top 10 Important Dunwoody PC Quick Concepts Kids should not have laptops, just like kids can not be trusted with spaceships. Know your wireless passwords, I don’t. Know your email passwords, I don’t. Macs are not infallible. A PC does not need to be fixed to get the data from it for another PC. Keep…
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Know Your Passwords!
One of the best ways to save money with your computer guy, regardless of whether you have a PC or a Mac, is *know* your passwords. Setting up computers is much more difficult and expensive if the computer guy has to try and figure out or reset your wireless network password and/or your email passwords!…
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Dunwoody PC is Facebook Active!
For those of you who are Facebook active, we are now maintaining a web site at www.facebook.com/dunpc. Any posts originated by Dunwoody PC are then carried on twitter.com/dunwoodypc. I will also continue to send out these newsletters for your SPAM filtering enjoyment.
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Update on Windows 7
Windows 7 – Windows 7 is a hit. It improves on pathetic Windows Vista substantially. We like it more than Windows XP also. If you currently have Windows XP, stick with it for several reasons, including the cost to migrate to Windows 7 does not make sense. If you have Windows Vista, however, you might…
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