Andrew Roberts » Computing http://www.andrewroberts.net Find a job that you love and never work another day in your life Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:38:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Free PC Health Checklist http://www.andrewroberts.net/2009/11/free-pc-health-checklist/ http://www.andrewroberts.net/2009/11/free-pc-health-checklist/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:22:18 +0000 AndrewRoberts http://www.andrewroberts.net/?p=242 Been digging around for stuff that people might find useful, and as my main business and interest is computing I really ought to have a few more blogs on the issue – I am a geek; no really! So here is a copy of the PC Health Check that I use to:

make sure customer’s [...]]]> Been digging around for stuff that people might find useful, and as my main business and interest is computing I really ought to have a few more blogs on the issue – I am a geek; no really! So here is a copy of the PC Health Check that I use to:

  1. make sure customer’s computers are all working OK before the leave the shop and I’ve finished playing with them and
  2. to use when I check over any computers I have maintenance contracts for.

So if you are feeling really keen, you could run through this list on your own computer every six months or so to head off any problems and keep me away!

Click on this link to download a Word version of the list: PC Health Checklist

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New toy. New toy! Today’s whizzy gadget is a blog client. For no conceivable reason (been happy copying and pasting offline posts from Word up to now) I’ve been looking at ways of writing blogs and keeping a journal when I’m not online (heaven forbid).
 
I’m writing this entry with David RM’s “The Journal” as recommended by Steve Pavlina.
 
I was initially more interested in just finding out about a program I could use as an electronic diary which is what the blog was initially about. But there are some entries too boring, too unfinished or too personal (not quite ready to bare my whole soul just yet – but watch this space) to be posting out into cyber space. And then I noticed that one of the features of The Journal was offline blogging: you write the blog and rather than spending hours (well, seconds) copying the text and pasting it into my blog admin page I can do it now with just one click (well, three). But hey when did a gadget ever need a real purpose. So I’ll have a play with this and see how it goes. The main tasks I want to try are:
 
  • Posting blogs
  • Import the present site into The Journal
  • Try posting with embedded images (hmm, wonder how it will cope with that)
 
I’ve had a quick play with other blog clients, well one, namely MS Writer. But, although a competent blog client it didn’t have all of the journal facilities of “The Journal”, so don’t if I’ll look at other blog clients too closely.
 
Anyhow, lets see how this goes.
 
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