No doubt, phishing is the number one way criminals and miscreant steal identities, credit card numbers, bank account passwords and so on. While most people would guess hacking is the way most people are ripped off, it’s simply not true. Phishing emails and sites attmept to trick the user into voluntarily entering their personal information on a web… Read More »
We wondered how long it would be before someone came up with this. For those of you who love to cook and collect recipes (or if you’re like me just make them up), you know how, after a few months, you’ve got clippings, index cards, matchbook covers, napkins, etc. all stuck in a box you call your “recipe”… Read More »
If you do a lot of online shopping, and we really hope you do (hint! hint!), you know how convenient it can be. REALLY CONVENIENT! For example, last Christmas, EB did all her Christmas shopping on CyberMonday from the comfort of her own home. Dressed in her granny nightgown and Sponge Bob slippers, she opened her laptop at… Read More »
We first featured this program as a freeware pick of the week in 2004. Here it is seven years later and the intrepid EB was browsing one day (she took a break from grazing) and told me I should take a look at AbiWord again because it has been much improved since 2004. It’s nice to hear that… Read More »
Windows 7’s start menu is a vast improvement over the start menu in Windows XP and Windows Vista. In fact, except for its lack of a good email program, Windows 7 is the best operating system Microsoft has ever made – at least in our opinion. Still it’s not perfect. The start menu, while improved, doesn’t give you… Read More »
EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard is one of the best data recovery programs around. We tried it. It’s exceptional. First, the free version of Data Recovery Wizard has a limitation. You can recover 1 gigabyte of data. That’s a lot since most of you would use this for recovering accidentally data. Come on. Even if we were totally snockered… Read More »