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Mary wants to know how freeware developers can afford to give away software
It is great to have people like the two of you who honestly dedicate your time and expertise to help us understand how to use our computers safely and efficiently. (Please excuse the run on sentence.) You have recommended so many wonderful programs and I use quite a number of them. I have a question about the free programs. Those who develop and maintain them obviously put considerable time into the task. How can they afford to share them free? ex. Avast--there are no advertisements.

Read our answer here.

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Use your toolbars to organize any folder
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about organizing files in a folder. I guess we do it so matter-of-factly that we don't really think about it. It's so easy and so natural to us that we're sometimes baffled by the emails we get that ask how to get their files back to A to Z order instead of Z to A order.

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Microsoft Security Essentials
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Gulp! We're about to say good things about Microsoft Security Essentials. But before we do, we want to make something crystal clear:

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Products we use and recommend:

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Roboform - What can we say other than this is the first thing we install on all our new computers? We couldn't live without it and we wouldn't either. We bought multiple copies of this program - long before we ever started recommending it. It's the best password manager you can buy. And if you have 10 or less passwords to say, you can even use the free version. We don't offer a discount on this product - but if you decide to buy and you buy through our link, we'll make a commission and you won't pay a penny more than you would if you bought it directly from Roboform. So, if you try it and you like it, buy it from us and help us help you! Roboform is one of our favorite programs. Get more information here.
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This week's Rant

Somewhere

The sangria flowed from a silver pitcher; it is the wine of celebration. The cacophony of the crowd cascades from the bar, filling the restaurant with unnerving noise.

It is not the best of days. It's raining and the sky hangs over me like a shroud.

Somewhere a mother cannot afford to feed her children; somewhere a father, out of work, sobs in desperation. Somewhere, right now, a child is being abused. Somewhere someone is dying.

I sit alone in a noisy restaurant; the dim romantic lighting only increases my sullen mood.

Somewhere a heart is breaking. Somewhere someone is running out of time.

The waiter, dressed in festive Mexican attire, asks if I'd like anything else. I say, "No, thanks" but I want to say, "Yes, there are many things I'd like. I'd like a miracle for a friend who is dying."

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Cloudeight Information Avenue Free Edition - Issue #444
July 31, 2010

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