Recent content by Michael Paulmeno

Turns out the reCAPTCHA box in Gravity Forms must be turned on by the administrator.

The University Library where I work has had a few issues with spambots filling out our web forms. ReCAPTCHA seems like it would prevent this effectively. It's free, seems easy to set up, and works with the Gravity Forms plugin in WordPress (our CMS). Problem is whenever I put in the link to...

Well I'm not saying I won't buy a new one. The mousepad issue is rather annoying and the ones you found are much better than my Gateway. It's a matter of corralling the funds as money trees sadly do not grow in the presence of oxygen. In the mean time I can use the old one for a bit while I...

But what about the mousepad issue? There were three drivers on Gateway's website and none of them worked. Of course it could just be a bad mousepad which doesn't help since it's not replaceable. Either way it may be time for a new one if I can find the funds. Time will tell.

I will have to do some thinking. In that respect the Lenovo is better because there does not seem to be a limited supply plus it has free shipping. Either way thank you for all of your help, Diox.

The Dell does look very nice. It has a slightly better graphics card and a 10/100/1000 ethernet port plus 4 USB 3.0 ports. Also the hard drive can always be swapped out later. We have Dells at work and I have few complaints. There customer service is great as well although there are rumors...

My preference is to spend not much more than $500 -$600. Unfortunately all the laptops which top those "best of" lists put out by CNET, Laptopmag, PCmag, etc feature devices north of $1000 which presents a problem for me. I am looking for a quality machine which will not break the bank since I...

That's what I'm leaning towards. Given how diverse the symptoms are the only thing which would make sense is the motherboard. And that means a new laptop.

About a year and a half ago (December 2012) my dad got me a Gateway NE56R34U laptop. It runs Windows 8.1 64 bit and worked fine until recently. About two months ago the hard drive began failing so I replaced it. Then after working for a month things began to go wrong. One day the laptop...