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Entries from June 2006

Schrock Innovations Website Now in 9 Languages!

June 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment

If you frequent the Schrock Innovations Computer Repair website you may have noticed a new graphic on the bottom left corner of all of our pages. This is a tool provided free of charge by AltaVista that will allow you to instantly translate any page on the Schrock Innovations website into 8 different languages!
Since [...]

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MoviePass tweaks MediaPipe Cancellation Procedure - Makes it Harder to Cancel Shady Software Package

June 28th, 2006 · 4 Comments

For those of you who follow this blog, you have read about the MoviePass and MediaPipe software that seems to find its way on to people’s computers who have no recollection of installing it. The software is designed to provide you access to free video content and is usually installed when the user clicks [...]

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New Help Article Added

June 26th, 2006 · No Comments

We have added another new computer help article to http://www.schrockinnovations.com. This article will show you how to increase your computer performance by setting your Windows XP based computer to run in performance mode.
Some of our customers have reported as much as a 25% performance gain by trading XP’s eye candy for horsepower! This [...]

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Chinese Company Helps Thwart Communist Censorship

June 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

A company in China has created a browser called Maxthon that allows users to visit websites through their proxy server, and thereby avoid China’s aggressive censorship policies. The tiny Beijing company (also named Maxthon, has attracted millions of users in China for functionality that can circumvent government controls on information in search engines like [...]

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New tutorial posted!

June 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

We have posted a new tutorial on the Schrock Innovations website in the DIY section. Last week a caller on the radio show asked how he could make a backup copy of his Outlook Express email messages. We successfully walked him through the steps on the air, and promised a step-by-step tutorial for [...]

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Blog Outage

June 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

Sorry about the outage this morning folks. I could just pull a “Baghdad Bob” and say outage? What outage? There was no outage…
The truth is we had to cooperate with an investigation that required our hosting company to pull some log files from our server. It required a few hours of down [...]

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Frustrations with HP

June 19th, 2006 · No Comments

My uncle bought a new HP multifunction printer for my father and called me to come over and hook it up. I stopped by after work thinking it would only take a few minutes to get everything up and running. Boy was I wrong!
The printer is a photo quality printer that uses an [...]

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Microsoft has come a long way!

June 11th, 2006 · No Comments

Ok, so you are at the Schrock Blog. Well, here is something interesting I found today on the web that should keep you amused for a while. http://www.webarchive.org.

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New Anti-Spyware Website

June 8th, 2006 · No Comments

I have teamed up with two other individuals to help launch a new anti-spyware website. It is located at http://www.databaseofspyware.com and it is designed to act as a global repository of all Spyware, Malware, and Adware infections. Eventually we will have manual removal instructions for all of the 7,500 infections that are currently [...]

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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Confounded by Spyware

June 8th, 2006 · No Comments

I found this story on an Australian news website. I have no idea if it is true, but either way it is funny.
Microsoft executives love telling stories against each other. Here’s one that platforms vice-president Jim Allchin told at a recent Windows Vista reviewers conference about chief executive Steve Ballmer.
It seems Steve was at [...]

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