Weak Wireless and Poor WiFi Range for Arris DG860 Time Warner Modem Routers

We've now seen this a few times in San Diego.  This is a modem slash router that Time Warner sells and the output of the wireless is shockingly weak.  It's good for a room or two.  In both cases I added a separate Asus router with a real antenna.  If you are stuck with one of these, there's hope!

Kurt Rein
MobileComputerWizard.com
858-345-0382 Office
San Diego Computer Repair

Backing Up Sticky Notes In Windows 7 & 8

Sticky Notes are the helpful (and generally temporary) way to give yourself simple reminders. Like real sticky notes, we don't recommend keeping sensitive information on them as it is easy enough to accidentally delete their information.

Warning aside, there is a way to back up their information. Sticky Notes keeps all currently open notes in a single database file located in: 

C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes\StickyNotes.snt

This file can be backed up and restored from this location in the event that something critical happened to be there. The only caveat is that Sticky Notes must have been launched one time prior so that the correct directories were created.

Happy computing!

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Greg Wilson, Office Manager

Mobile Computer Wizard

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San Diego, CA

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Using Powerful Filters in Gmail to Remove Old Emails with Switch and Label Selections

By now, folks around San Diego will start to run into possible Gmail email storage issues.  15gb is a lot of space, and for only $2 a month you can upgrade.  But all being said, zapping some emails that are unlabeled and a few years old can clear a ton of space.  Surprisingly, it's not that easy, but hopefully these will help

Searches like this will basically remove unimportant mail previous to 2014.  This is just an example, use at your own risk!

before:2014/1/1 has:nouserlabels -label:inbox -label:sent -label:chats -label:drafts -label:spam -label:trash -label:notes -is:starred

Conversation view MUST be off to use the above with the has:nouserlabels

Similar, if you had ATT mail forwarding in...

before:2014/1/1 label:ATT -label:inbox -label:sent -label:chats -label:drafts -label:spam -label:trash -label:notes -is:starred 

Kurt Rein

MobileComputerWizard.com

858-345-0382 Office

San Diego Computer Repair

Changes about iPhoto and Aperature for Apple Computers

On Mavericks, it's just called Photos now, just like on iPhones and iPads.  iPhoto and Aperture are not supported any more and have been removed from the app store on Macs.

From wikipedia (here):

On April 8, 2015, Apple released OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, which includes the new Photos app. iPhoto and Aperture were discontinued and removed from the Mac App Store.

Kurt Rein
www.MobileComputerWizard.com
858-345-0382 Office

Window 10 for Free!

Yes, it looks like users with Windows 7 or 8 will be able to upgrade for free. Thanks Microsoft!  Read more here.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/features

Kurt Rein
MobileComputerWizard.com
858-345-0382 Office
San Diego Computer Repair