Update to Boot Camp Issue

There just might be some hope for wanna bee users of Boot Camp. “Dechamp”, an Apple forum user offered this solution to jump start and workaround issues in Boot Camp:
http://www.geocities.com/nja469/
I have decided not to use Apple’s Boot Camp and have now purchased a 3rd. party app called Parallels.
My Macbook will now be also a virtual [...]

Boot Camp Fails the Grade

Does APPLE CARE have rotten Apple TECHS?
This was posted in Apple’s forum yesterday and some how the post disappeared and it has been forwarded to Leo Laporte’s Blog:
I use Parallels, a 3rd. product software and find it works very good.
However, I cannot say that for Boot Camp. Here is a post I put in yesterday [...]

Am I a MAC or a PC?

Now that Macs can host Windows Operating Systems and run both  OS’s on the same desktop (sorry on a Mac only), I have loaded Windows XP Home onto my Macbook laptop.  This was accomplished by the virtualization program: Parallels.
My next feat is to load Windows VISTA onto my Macbook via Boot Camp and then virtualize [...]

Computers “USER FRIENDLY”?

Far from it!

Back in the “day”, when DOS was alive and well, computers were scary creatures and only a few could operated those vehicles without accident or incident. Then along came the 90’s when the PCs and Macs were made available and workable for the so-called “average” human, with projected promises of making these machines: [...]

Thank you Sponsors!!! – APCUG Convention 2008

A Reiteration of Thanks from the Sarnia Computer Users’ Group in Ontario, Canada
APCUG wants to thank all of the vendor sponsors that made the event the success it was:

Gold Sponsors

AMD Corporation
Corel Corporation
Microsoft Corporation

Vendor Fair

Acoustica Software, Inc.
Ai Squared, Inc.
Alpha Software, Inc.
Andy Marken Communications
Pinnacle Systems
Raxco Software, Inc.
Reallusion
Roxio
Smart Computing, Inc.
TechSmith, Inc.
Trend Micro
User Group Relations

Welcome Bag, Tech Session, Other

Culminis, [...]

Las Vegas Computer Convention

I hate winter & I love computers.
I know, I can hear ya all now; those of you, that is, that are winter lovers. To be honest I never have liked winter. As most Canadians without choice, I have grinned and “beared” it over the past 50+ years. But I do swear this is my last [...]