Microsoft Email Accounts & Windows Live Mail Some of you are using Windows Live Mail and are now having problems with receiving email from Microsoft accounts. A Microsoft account is any email address ending in any of the following: @outlook.com @hotmail.com @live.com @live.ca @msn.com It seems that Microsoft is trying to get users to use the Mail app… Read More »
Private Browsing Isn’t So Private Surprisingly, despite the names the Big Three browsers give to private browsing modes – Internet Explorer’s In-private Browsing mode, Google’s Incognito mode and Firefox’s Private Browsing mode – there’s really not much private about private browsing. Every site you visit is tracked by your ISP regardless of whether you’re using a private mode,… Read More »
FBI Says Ransomware Will Net Criminals $1 Billion This Year //from CNN// Cyber-criminals collected $209 million in the first three months of 2016 by extorting businesses and institutions to unlock computer servers. At that rate, ransomware is on pace to be a $1 billion a year crime this year. The FBI told CNN that the number “is quite… Read More »
Account Killer – A Killer You’ll Like We’ve all done it – we get caught up in the moment and we’ve signed-up for something that sounds really cool at the time. Alas, it turns out to be not so cool and we don’t use it, or we get flooded with emails, or messages or people wanting be connect… Read More »
Chrome: About Stuff Chrome has a lot of useful About Stuff. You can get to it by typing either About: or Chrome with a simple command after it About://flags is the same as Chrome://flags…got it? But you don’t even need to type the slashes, About:Flags or Chrome:Flags works and saves you keystrokes if you’re lazy. So to use… Read More »
Mute Annoying Audio in Web Pages Many sites, especially news sites, have delayed auto-start videos (or audio ads) on their pages. When surfing multiple pages, you may suddenly hear the audio, but finding which page it is coming from meant going through each open tab. But sometimes I have 15 or 20 open tabs! I was complaining to… Read More »