Repair scams: Let’s take a look at iYogi All Windows users iYogi is a remote support outfit whose home office is in India. They have “local headquarters” in the USA, United Kingdom, and elsewhere around the world. “Local Headquarters” is in quotes because iYogi does not have a physical presence anywhere other than India. Now before we get… Read More »
Many of you have responded to our article about Avast. A few of you have hinted at or just full-out accused us of writing the article about Avast to increase sales of Emsisoft. First let me say – that is not true. It would absolutely insane for us to recommend something that didn’t work, or to recommend something… Read More »
Special Sale for Cloudeight Boosters Just in case you missed our special booster’s newsletter, be sure to login to your Cloudeight Booster account before 10PM tomorrow night. We’re offering all Cloudeight Boosters a chance to get 3 Cloudeight Direct Computer Care repair key for just $99. This offer is good until 10PM U.S. Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday June… Read More »
Create a Recycle Bin on a USB flash drive If you have USB flash drives, you’ll notice that there is no Recycle Bin on them. That’s because Windows only creates Recycle Bins on fixed drives (i.e. hard drives) and on some external hard drives – but never on USB flash drives. If you store pictures, email messages, documents,… Read More »
Pixar Renderman software set free so you can make your own Toy Story | News Aspiring animators, listen up! Pixar’s working on a brand new version of Renderman, the in-house software they use to render (duh) all their awesome digital creations. There are a slew of improvements coming, but the big news is that there’s a version you can download… Read More »
Quantifying Privacy: A Week of Location Data May Be an “Unreasonable Search” When does the simple digital tracking of your location and movements — the GPS bleeps from most of our smartphones — start to be truly revealing? When do the data points and inferences that can be drawn from it strongly suggest, say, trips to a psychiatrist,… Read More »