Skylarking: The Tech Tip Blog

Friday ends in the black for retail outlets, hopefully, and Monday is cyber. Monday is the day the computer retailers offer some more big savings on electronics. Buy.com has you covered both days. Here are some links for you to check out their offerings...

Checkout the MacMall’s 48 Hour Sale which is already underway. It ends at midnight Pacific Time on Tuesday evening (Nov. 24, 2009). Just click the banner above to access their site. The Macmall is the leading direct reseller of Apple products. They sell even more Apple products than Amazon.com! ...

Are you using Microsoft Office 2007? Have you been told for days and days that “new updates are available” and every time you look it’s the same 4 updates for Microsoft Office 2007? Yeah, me too, but I’ve fixed it. For ov...

Back in February of this year I wrote an article, Free AntiVirus and No Catch, about the Avast Home Edition AntiVirus program. The article included a list of steps to follow when registering Avast. Today, a client of mine from New York City emailed to ask me how to re-register Avast...

Skylarking is gearing up for Black Friday, but you can get an early start with these home entertainment and computer specials from TigerDirect. SONY BRAVIA HDTVs w/FREE Blu-Ray Player.- (11/9 – 11/16/09) or while supplies last! ...

Back on October 23 in my post I’ve Upgraded to Windows 7, No Static At All, I discussed installing WINDOWS 7 FAMILY PACK on three different computers, and a reader calling himself Ballpeen asked: Have you installed on your family members’ pcs yet? I ...

Leapfish.com Quite recently the multi-mediasearch engine site, LeapFish.com, announced they’re developing a real time search engine. You can find the press release here. Real time, I assume, means that when something happens on the web, anywhere, LeapFish will be able to find it for you. ...

I’m sure you Windows Vista users out there had several gestures you used when Vista let you down, but with Windows 7 gestures are more productive. ...

This is the second post in a series of articles about the new Windows 7 operating system from Microsoft. You can read the first post about installing Windows 7here. An interesting feature of Windows 7 is ClearType. ClearType was available for Vista, but it has some enhancements for Windows 7...

This is the first of a series of articles about the new Microsoft Windows 7 operating system which was released on Thursday, October 22, 2009. Well, I ran out yesterday afternoon and picked up the Windows 7 Upgrade package from Costco...

For the entire month of October, Buy.com has set up a special Breast Cancer Awareness Store. If you buy any of the 2 dozen or so products, a portion of the sale will go to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation...

Charter Communications is giving away a 2010 Chevy Camaro 2SS in its “High Speed” Camaro Sweepstakes.With a 426 horsepower V8 engine, this car is very hard to come by, andit’s being produced insmall numbers. You’...

Here are a few items worth looking at over at TigerDirect.com this weekend. Plus you can save $30 on any order over $100 (before tax and shipping) when you purchase using eBillMe for the first time...