Computer and technology questions and answers from Andy Kaiser
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Question:
I was just curious why you like Mozy over Carbonite. I read a review that said they were similar, but the guy ended up picking Carbonite over Mozy for unlimited storage, price difference, and speed. What do you think about the differences between Mozy and Carbonite? Why did you switch?
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Question:
What do you think of MacBookPro? My daughter needs a new computer and wants a Mac. She is an education major and a lot of schools use Mac. She has two friends that are computer science majors and one thinks Mac is great the other thinks it stinks. You are the tie breaker. 
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Question:
Today on Fox News web site was an article about vulnerability to hackers of many free wi-fi internet systems that put travelers on vacation at risk when they use their computer on these systems. Since I’ll be doing that to log in to my home computer, I’m wondering if there are any security measures I can implement when using my laptop on vacation when logging in to my office from hotels, etc.?
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Question:
I have a friend whose daughter purchased a 32GB iPod touch and it has slowed down their computer tremendously. My son would like to get the 16 GB iPod touch and I can’t seem to get a consistent answer from the Apple people about how it would affect our computer. My daughter has a 4GB nano and my son has a 16GB nano also. They share an iTunes account. Do you know anything that can help me? Is it needing a ton of hard drive space to just save all the downloads from i-tunes? Or is the issue something else?
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Question:
I have been trying to find out why a friend’s 2002 IBM Windows XP PC keeps turning itself on and off unattended. This behavior has been continuing for many years since shortly after they bought it. So I recently decided to take a look at it for them.
