The D'Onofrio Creative Blog

For years I’ve recommended AVG as a good free antivirus software for my clients.  And until recently, it has been just that. Sadly, this is no longer the case. In recent months AVG has begun inundating its users with annoying popups and offers to buy their paid services. If you’re running AVG, you’ve probably seen this. You may have even pulled out some of your hair by now. For whatever reason, AVG has decided to annoy the heck out of their user base with these popups.  I did a little research on this issue and found this AVG forum FILLED with unhappy users, which includes a very interesting post someone made a few days ago on April 5th, where it’s speculated that this recent change is actually part of a stock manipulation scheme.  Is it true?  Who knows… but interesting nonetheless. So the bottom line is this; AVG is no [...]

For the last few weeks I’ve been listening to my laptop fan whir away, running full speed, hopelessly trying to keep the critical components cool, and failing. Then the other day when my wireless router pooped out on me from overheating, I realized it was time to take action. If your computer sounds like a jet engine, you should probably keep reading. Let’s face it, it’s been freaking HOT here in Hawaii lately.  Hot and MUGGY.  And our electronics HATE it. So I wanna give you some quick advice on how to keep your electronics happy (and alive) in the hot summer heat. First, let’s start with computers and laptops.  Basically, there are several components in these devices that heat up and, over time, if not taken care of, they burn out.  No bueno. The CPU, the graphics processor (GPU), the hard drives, memory and other chips all run hot.  [...]