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• Bob Davis

  Telephone numbers placed on the National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February 2008. Read more about it at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm.

• http://www2.mpsaz.org/rmhs/staff/slhain Sharon Hain

  Dave,
  I am a high school teacher of Computer Repair and have been doing it for ten years WITH YOUR HELP. You have been an incredible resource for me. I am A+ certified and have been through a lot of networking courses. I would LOVE to be able to get a premium membership, but our school district is struggling with dollars. Do you have an educational discounts available? I teach both a beginning and advanced repair class and the kids love it. I have turned out some really talented kids over the years, but like I said, I couldn’t do it withour your help. You are “in the classroom with me” all the time. I promote your website with my kids and even the teachers on my campus by sharing newsletter tips. Anyway, if you would be willing to offer an educational discount, maybe I can coerce my school district in letting me get a premium membership. Would you be willing to take a PO if they allow me to get a membership?

• Pamela

  Dave, I am able to log in and everything is going fine. Thanks so much support has really been a great help and I really appreciate the lengths you go to being thorough with all aspects. Look forward to using this resource and your open door policy of help. Thanks so much. I hope your wife is feeling better after hurting her back and everything is a-okay in your neck of the woods.

• Jeff Kocol

  RIGHT ON! I just read yur “I Quit” post and could not agree more. All this ‘Gloom and Doom” has got to stop!
  I was watching the news as Obama was about to sign the so-called “Stimulus Bill”. The guy who introduced the President in Denver owned some Solar Power business and he said he started with only 3 employees three years ago and now has 55 employees. But he was “worried” that he “might” have to start cutting back and laying people off if the Stimulus bill wasn’t signed into law. From 3 to 55 employees in only 3 years! That is GROWTH and SUCCESS Dude! But this country is full of “Glass half Empty” people anymore. What ever happend to FDR’s “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”? All their Silver Linings come with Clouds these days. WTF??? The new President sure brought the “Change”, but he left his bag of “Hope” in the cab.

• Jim Marsh

  Hi Dave;

  You scared me when you said “I quit”. Please send your comments to your Congressman, Senator and Pelosie. I did and also included the illegal aliens who also get Social Security welfare and so many other freebies I can’t remember them. The MAXINE comics had a beautiful strip about this.

  Keep the good work.

• Philip Vardara

  Dave:

  Out of the blue you sent me a “happy birthday” email. (I turned 60!) I don’t know when I first signed up, but it was a nice surprise. And it got me reading and thinking about what you have to offer. I don’t know if I’ll sign up, but thanks again.

  Philip

• Ian Kane

  Hi Dave finding the site a wealth of information. From what I have seen so far you like to use video clips a lot is there any chance of getting a transcript of these. Thanks Ian

• K Rock

  RE: your rant about Radio Shack, I totally agree. Fortunately in Houston, Texas we have the Electronic Parts Outlet. (http://www.epohouston.com/about.htm)
  I could goe in there and wander for hours locating parts you can’t find elswhere (except online), dreaming about new projects and trying to figure out what to make with some of the surplus/used stuff.

  Surely other large cities have similar local sources.

• dl

  If you are going to order electronic parts, might as well consider people like Mouser or Digikey. Their sales sheets have hooks to the manufactures to get all the specs

  I have been happy with Mouser for several years.

• Databyter

  Just wanted to say thanks, I was troubleshooting a video problem, found this fine site on an internet search, and resolved my problem quickly by finding great info. and links to the download I needed to resolve the problem.
  I am registering immediatly to add this to my list of good tech forums.

• Bob

  Love your work Dave.

  Can we get full text in the mail outs like we used to? The cropped text requires an extra step to get your great info!

  Bob

• Rebecca

  I’ve been following Dave for several years. Great stuff. A few comments on Twitter. For those who can use it, great. It is an excellent marketing tool. But only one. Some of us just don’t have the time or our business doesn’t require it yet; and some people would be better off texting each other. Remember- what you say can -and will (maybe)- be used against you. Job recruiters search you out on the web and it’s important to “clean up your act”. If you Twitter as though your future boss or client were scoping you out, you’ll be ok. The Twitter manual is the first of it’s kind I’ve seen. Kudos on being on the front lines!!

• Serge Senna

  I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts.
  You have a great Blog!!! I just added you to my Google News Reader.
  Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

  Keep up the good work.

• CrazyCat

  Really cool blog. I found it on yahoo. I am looking forward to read more posts.

• http://kkomp.com Sharron Field

  You’re doing an excellent job Dave. – Rich too. With your entrepreneureal and technical abilities it seems that there’s no way that you can fail. The products that you produce are awesome; especially your 3-Day Money course; and I hear there’s more in the pipeline.

  The main reason why I buy your products and follow you as my online guru is that, unlike many internet marketers, you give a total product at a price that’s amazing value-for-money. Many others try to give a partially-completed product at a questionably-priced tag. I suppose that’s one of the secrets to your success: Give value at reasonable cost and sales-volume is greater as a result. – Also your online marketing reputation stays intact and keeps on getting better.

  ‘Here’s to the future. I hope it keeps getting better: You’ve earned it.

  Bright blessings to you and your family.

• Juan A Marrero

  Hi,

  I have sent some question to PC Mech and I never have answers. How I going to pay a membership when I can do nothing spending my money? I can’t find a way to to questions. It is like you have to be a genious to understand how to manage the site. Only comments and comments in the forums, and where are the answers? My mail box is empty all the times.

  Juan

• http://cocutzamisca/placestogothingstosee.blogspot.com cocutzamisca

  Hi,Juan,if you look close at this site,on top of the page there’s a contact button and if you click it a window with contact options and ways to contact Dave for any problem you have are listed in there.

• Reimund Paetz

  Hi Dave,

  thanks for your 20 Tips. I read them and I think that you could add some more programs to your Open Source list: Slimbrowser by flashpeak.com is a useful, small, free and quick internet browser that you should try. Furthermore there is a free for non-commercial use pdf reader called Foxit Reader from http://www.foxitsoftware.com.
  A birthday check utility called BithCeck is a nice tool reminding you to birthdates of people you registered when you start the computer.

  Furthermore you should test Audiograbber, FreePDFXP, applications that I use for long time.

  Cheers
  Reimund

• charles

  I have never said this before but I think I love you keep up the good work

• Jeff

  Hi Dave,

  I like your Web site and all the information that it supplies but I find it annoying that grammar mistakes abound in the text, yours and others. Obviously I cannot do anything about the ‘others’, but you as a writer should check your work more carefully. For instance:

  ‘and’ is a joining word commonly known as a conjunction from my school days. One must never start a sentence with ‘and’. This is a no no, please remember that.

  Also, ‘Web site’ is two words, not one as some think including some bad so-called spell checkers. Single wording is just sloppy writing, do you say ‘buildingsite’, ‘landingsite’, ‘sacredsite’ of course not….silly isn’t it? Funny though, no one says ‘Internetsite’ but use the correct term Internet site? Amazingly true eh? My friends say that ‘website’ is ‘Kiddie spelling’, sorry but true. I am sure you probably cringe at some of the letters you get with bad spelling etc..

  Lastly, e-mail……note the hyphen or dash. Not ‘email’, again that is just sloppy usage. The ‘e’ is short for electronic and the hyphen signifies the abbreviation, thus ‘e-mail’ is = ‘electronic mail’.

  Always remember Dave, if you are in a hurry writing, you can type the wrong stuff in and then at the end do a ‘find and replace’ function to polish up the text.

  Following the above positive and constructive notes will improve your standing among your peers. Good luck.

  Cheers,
  Have a good week.
  JM.

• http://www.menga.net Rich Menga

  What you deem “annoying grammar mistakes” are acceptable in modern writing.

  Email: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

  Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website

  Starting sentences with “and” or “but”: http://tinyurl.com/musjdm (considered to be “informal” but still valid)

  This is the internet, not the newspaper. Furthermore you’re complaining on content which is otherwise free. You’re what we call a Grammar Nazi: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grammar%20nazi

  If you would like to donate several thousand dollars to us each month to hire a proofreader, then please, by all means, start sending checks. We’ll be happy to accept them!

  Lastly, what is ….. supposed to mean in your comment? Tsk, tsk, tsk. What poor grammar! Is that supposed to be one-and-a-half ellipsis’?

  Have a nice day.

• Mike

  I guess, this is where editorial feedback goes. I liked the “to the editor link”, which seems to have been removed.

  This is about the rant on the PC industry rushing end users.

  The whole situation is obvious if you think about it. Intel and Microsoft to name the two largest players, have created this escalating spiral for their own purposes as they dance into the future hand in hand.

  A civil engineer hires everyone, builds a bridge and then everyone moves on. In the computer industry they have set up the model of their business to constantly re-invent the wheel. So, the big computer industry companies have to “feed the monster” to keep their jobs going, pay everyone and so on. To do this they have to re-paint the bridge and resell it every 6 months or so. Just like used car salesmen.

  Except for the rare job, like working for Lukas at Light and Magic doing video animation, or the rabid gamer most of us could work and be completely happy with a computer that is five years old. Heck, most people do most of their computing today on their phones.

  So to keep the computer industry from falling in on itself, it has to sell, sell, sell. Just like a junkie they need a fix every day. That is why they have to prod people, by making computers obsolete quicker and quicker. There will always be that 10% that live, breath, think computers, but that is not enough to support the industry. There will always be fads like twitter, facebook and so on and that too won’t support the industry.

  The rest of us can get by with desktop OS, a word processing suite, a search engine and a network connection. All the harping and cajoling is to get the unwashed masses to buy the next best thing and make the last best thing obsolete as fast as possible.

  It will be interesting to see that time when the top end is reached. I think it will be soon, when people don’t need more: faster (works fine now, I click, it appears), smaller, (I have a phone, mini and laptop small enough), lighter (4 ounces to a couple of pounds is light enough), visually stunning (I have millions of pixels at a gazillion colors), except for remote brain surgery I can do pretty much all I need to do or want to do; movies, video, camera editing, sound editing, play music you name it and I can contact anyone in the world not hiding under a rock in a dozen or so ways. At some point people will say enough. Then we will see what happens to the computer industry. With the economy today, I bet a lot of people are re-examing their priorities, I am.

  Mike

• http://www.wvwnews.net Bob Fairlane

  Interesting page. I agree the tech mfgrs. are full of crap and greedy. I hate laptops. They are either A. underpowered, hot, and expensive, or powerful, very hot, and very expensive. If the industry quits catering to the desktop market (simple, repairable, cost effective, wide options, not a hot potato in lap), I will join forces with any consumer orgs. that push for desktop mfg.

  There is a company called Systemax that supposedly makes American made computers with English speaking tech help. Maybe they will be crowned king if Fapple and PC’s quit making desktops. And if they require Internet or cell phone service for simple storage use, people will just pay higher prices for foreign made desktops of conventional style.

• Al Wallace

  Dave, just subscribed to weekly and received the “65 best”(etc). I fyou have not looked at ” Just Zip It” , take a look. I have been using this simple zip tool for several years now.

• Elaine Anderson

  I just want to warn you about the BOA problem. Even though you closed your account with them, you might find that you get a communication from them sometime in the next year that you are in collections due to the charges from the insurance. It is my experience with 16 years of working in the banking industry that they will continue to pay those premiums and then send you to collections. This isn’t just something one bank is doing, they all may be.

• Rachelle

  Just read your reviews on the free PDF creators. Not sure if you’ve looked at Primo pdf creator, but we use it at work and don’t have any issues with it. It works via a pdf print driver too.

  You’re doing a great job!
  Thanks for your site!
  r

• http://IDTheftSecurity.com Robert Siciliano

  Just a quick thank you, I get lots of great tidbits from your feed. The “free” tools and tweaks advice are the best on the net. THANK YOU!