There are times you need to perform a little maintenance on your hardware and software and we’ve got you covered.
Keyboards can be pretty disgusting. Apart from looking bad and being covered with germs, some of that dirt can prevent them from working well. A few years ago I took a very drastic step to get a keyboard clean. If you don’t remember it, check out What Happens...
Since we migrated the Graphics Unleashed Blog to a dedicated site in 2015, the layout of the posts was mostly the same. We did make a few minor changes every now and then, but it didn’t change the overall layout much. Now we’ve made a major change a couple...
Loyal readers know that I recently moved. Part of that move was selling the home where I had resided the previous 22 years. While I’ve provided a new address to more than 100 places, I’m sure there are some I’ve missed. Today I have a story about a...
Last week was a stressful week as we wanted to move all of our e-commerce sites to a new Web server. It is not a particularly difficult process though there are times when it goes much slower than desired. Let me step back and describe why the move made sense and the...
There are over 3500 blog posts going back as far as early 2005. In that time frame, there have been a couple of moves of all posts between platforms with the last being to WordPress in 2015. Products were also moved from a single all-encompassing site to a series of...
How each of you consume our content is different. Some of you may expect it at a certain time in your inbox and others are probably a little surprised each time it arrives. As I’m the one creating many of the posts, I’m well aware when they are supposed to...
My main computer was useless for about 24 hours and it was all my fault. One simple change and I could have avoided a lot of headaches. Instead I had a computer that wouldn’t reboot after installing some routine Windows Updates. Thankfully I had other working...
It happens too often. A user downloads a file from one of our Web sites. Soon afterwards we get a message telling us that they tried to open the file in an application and they were told it was corrupt. First, let me make it clear that there are corrupt files on...
While working on a recent project, the only copies of a logo were fairly low-resolution bitmaps. The quality of them was good, just at too low of a resolution for the desired usage on a Web site. By asking a few questions, I was able to determine who had originally...
I was sent a CorelDRAW file that was really slow. There were a variety of reasons for the slowness, but there was one issue that repeated numerous times. Look at the two red dots below. If you look really closely, you might see a difference between them. But you would...
Recently I was working on a flyer for a client that was to contain several photos of their products. The client had brought in a photographer to take pictures. After the pictures were taken, the photographer removed the background from the photos. Then something was...
My laptop was showing its age after nearly five years so I got myself a new laptop, the Dell XPS15. I wrote about its little brother in the Dell XPS13 Touchscreen Ultrabook post a few months ago. As part of the new laptop, I knew that my only operating system choice...
The unleash.com site first came to life in May 1995 and it started as just a single page. Over the years it went through a number of makeovers and it grew to over ten thousand pages. Unfortunately it got to the point where making some of the needed changes were...
There are times we get suggestions from you, our loyal readers, and we are very frustrated that it just isn’t feasible to follow up on those suggestions. There were two suggestions related to our Textures Unleashed collections that we weren’t able to...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote Own a DVD Factory With Epson Discproducer PP-100II CD/DVD Publisher. I mentioned in the post that after five and a half years, I had to send our unit back for repairs. It has now returned to our office and is working great. When it was...
The Cave Creek Geek couldn’t stand the loud noise made by a friend’s computer and helped him clean out the dust. After the cleaning, the computer was nearly silent and ran much better. Watch the video and get your computer cleaned out!For more information...
I’ll warn you, this post contains a dirty picture. No, really, it is dirty! I’m talking about the dust and dirt that can build up inside of your computer and other electronic devices. When was the last time you opened up your computer to see what was...
