We recently launched the shiny new refresh of our website. After months of dedicated work by our web development team, the project finally sees the light of day. he site features hundreds of pages of new content, as well as a redesigned template to make navigation easier. Pages times load 10-15x faster than before as well! Please share our site with anyone you may know – we are 100% confident that they will find our new site informative, educational, and easy to navigate.
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Now Offering Flash Drive Recovery Service!
More and more flash drives are failing every day due to physical damage and/or quick/incorrect removal. In some cases, the drive appears to be unformatted, and in other cases, it doesn't show up on the computer at all! Either way, fear not; we can successfully recover critical data from your questionable flash drive. Also, we now offer clean room recovery for flash drives! Please give us a call at San Diego PC Help if you have any questions, or visit the flash drive recovery page on our website.
From Our Blog...
About Apple’s New iPhone 5 – the Rumors So Far
Oh, it’s almost that time again – you know, the "reach for your wallet" time of the year; That’s right, the online world is abuzz with news that we are going to need to get our hands on the new iPhone 5, and soon. While one can’t help but wonder whether the owners of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4G (which are probably still shiny new) feel like kicking themselves for not waiting a few more months to jump one iGeneration to the iPhone 5 the rest of us patient Job’s (no relations to Steve Jobs) will be rewarded by this new iWonder! Read more...
From Our Blog...
6 Things you can do With Your Computer or Laptop, Other than the Obvious
As we shall be prove in this post, your computer or laptop was never intended to be just used for, well, only computing. Although in the software world ‘multitasking’ is a word that was invented to describe the concept where a PCor laptop could perform many jobs via process ‘threads’, we can also consider it to mean that ‘the computer can be used for a purpose other than the one it was actually meant to perform’. And just because ‘they’ won’t exactly advertise it, it doesn’t mean ‘we’ can’t write about it (for you to try it, that is) , so here goes... Read more...
Our August winner is reader markey. He asked: I am planning to dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.04, I have already burned Ubuntu into a CD and have also downloaded the ISO. But when I go to My Computer to start the installation, a different icon appears. I’m confused on what to click just to start the installation. Am I missing anything?
Our Answer: You can’t install Ubuntu from inside of Windows. You need to figure out how to get to your BIOS settings., which will vary based on your computer model. After you get to the BIOS settings, you need to tell it to boot from CD before the hard drive (HDD). Then, re boot the computer with the Ubuntu disk in the slot. Ubuntu will handle the dual boot for you. (Just be sure to defragment XP first.)
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Advice & Tips
What You Should Consider Before Buying a USB Hub
USB hubs come in all shapes, sizes and configurations. There are internal USB hubs; internal multi-port case panels; powered external USB hubs with a modest amount of USB ports; external powered USB hubs with a lots of USB ports;
non-powered USB hubs; external USB hubs with extra types of ports (such as PS/2, RS232 serial, and parallel – sometimes called Port Replicators); USB and Firewire combination hubs.
Improving Skype Audio in Linux
The latest version of the Skype client (1.4.0.99 at the time of writing) supports OSS (Open Sound System) and ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) . Older versions of the client only support OSS. If you're having audio trouble, try downloading and installing the latest version of the Skype client for Linux.
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We recently launched the shiny new refresh of our website. After months of dedicated work by our web development team, the project finally sees the light of day. he site features hundreds of pages of new content, as well as a redesigned template to make navigation easier. Pages times load 10-15x faster than before as well! Please share our site with anyone you may know – we are 100% confident that they will find our new site informative, educational, and easy to navigate.
More and more flash drives are failing every day due to physical damage and/or quick/incorrect removal. In some cases, the drive appears to be unformatted, and in other cases, it doesn't show up on the computer at all! Either way, fear not; we can successfully recover critical data from your questionable flash drive. Also, we now offer clean room recovery for flash drives! Please give us a call at San Diego PC Help if you have any questions, or visit the 
Oh, it’s almost that time again – you know, the "reach for your wallet" time of the year; That’s right, the online world is abuzz with news that we are going to need to get our hands on the new iPhone 5, and soon. While one can’t help but wonder whether the owners of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4G (which are probably still shiny new) feel like kicking themselves for not waiting a few more months to jump one iGeneration to the iPhone 5 the rest of us patient Job’s (no relations to Steve Jobs) will be rewarded by this new iWonder! 
As we shall be prove in this post, your computer or laptop was never intended to be just used for, well, only computing. Although in the software world ‘multitasking’ is a word that was invented to describe the concept where a PCor laptop could perform many jobs via process ‘threads’, we can also consider it to mean that ‘the computer can be used for a purpose other than the one it was actually meant to perform’. And just because ‘they’ won’t exactly advertise it, it doesn’t mean ‘we’ can’t write about it (for you to try it, that is) , so here goes... 
