by Foster D. Coburn III | Mar 19, 2018 | Maintenance
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...
by Foster D. Coburn III | May 8, 2017 | Maintenance
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...
by Foster D. Coburn III | Feb 13, 2017 | Maintenance
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...
by Foster D. Coburn III | Sep 26, 2016 | Maintenance, webgraphics
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...
by Foster D. Coburn III | Jul 11, 2016 | CorelDRAW, Maintenance
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...
