About Alan Burns

• He built a better shucker

  

  Posted on 11 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns

  I like it when someone examines an old tool and figures out how to make a better one. Toronto seafood restaurateur Patrick McMurray has done just that with the oyster knife. A four-time Canadian oyster shucking champion, 2004 North American...read more

• Repair a scratched CD

  

  Posted on 09 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns

  Your CD skips or has audible glitches, or it won’t rip (copy) without errors. You’ve tried the cleaning and polishing technique from my earlier article and tried it on a different drive, with no luck. More aggressive action is n...read more

• TLC for a skipping CD

  Posted on 07 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns

  Does your Partridge Family CD skip in your CD player? Are you unable to rip (copy) your Milli Vanilli Greatest Hits due to errors? There is hope. A CD is read by a laser that scans the underside, the side without artwork. The laser passes t...read more

• “Password” is not a good password

  Posted on 05 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns

  Many studies have found that one of the most common passwords is “password”. This is likely because it is the default in many systems. A very bad default, in my opinion. We’re overwhelmed by passwords, so it’s not su...read more

• 2011 tablet market heats up with iPad 2 launch

  

  Posted on 03 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns

  In an article I wrote at the beginning of this year, I asked if 2011 would be the year of the tablet. Even this early, it appears that 2011 will be huge for tablets. 17 million tablets were sold last year, and analysts expect at least two t...read more

• Scam caller asks: “Is your computer running slowly?”

  Posted on 01 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns

  Today I received a phone call offering to fix my PC. Instead of thinking “wow, how kind of someone to offer to help me”, my suspicious mind naturally contemplated other motives. It turns out that this is indeed a telemarketing s...read more

• Torrents are not allowed here

  Posted on 27 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns

  WHB, as do many web hosts, prohibits torrenting on its servers. From time to time some clients have complained about this in the WHB forums, as they do in the forums of other hosts. Clients wanting to torrent usually argue that torrents are...read more

• New MacBooks hit the street

  

  Posted on 24 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns

  ? Apple today released its new MacBook Pro laptops. There is a 13″ using Intel’s integrated graphics, and a 15″ and 17″ that use dedicated AMD graphics cards. As with many new laptops from competitors, these feature ...read more

• Flash drives are difficult to erase safely

  Posted on 23 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns

  Think you’ve deleted those confidential documents from your USB flash drive? Think again. New research has discovered that Solid State Drives (SSDs), both large internal SSDs replacing hard drives and ubiquitous portable USB flash dri...read more

• Web hosting types explained

  Posted on 21 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns

  It can be confusing to shop for web hosting. There are so many plans and types of hosting that it can be difficult to know where to begin. Today I’m going to give you a brief explanation of each of the major types of hosting. Shared h...read more

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