FileMinx: File Conversions Made Easy We’ve worked on a lot of computers and we’ve noticed many of you have installed software for converting one file format to another. Frankly, many of the file conversion programs you can download free also install malware or come bundled with malware. In the age of The Cloud we’re apt to use an… Read More »
What Is a VPN? VPN is short for Vampires Prowl Nightly. So if you plan to go out when it’s dark we suggest carry a large cross, a mallet and a big wooden stake. Your best bet is to stay indoors when it’s dark, keep a lot of lights on, and lock your doors. If you need to… Read More »
Innocence Lost: A Brief History of Life and the Internet Most of us think back on the past as a simpler, less complicated time. When we let our thoughts drift back to our childhoods – no matter how old we are – most of us imagine a more beautiful world, a more peaceful time in our lives. I… Read More »
Two Places to Get Disposable Email Addresses The world is full of disposable things – disposable diapers, disposable razors, disposable lighters, and so on. Disposable email addresses are desirable if you don’t want to give someone, something, or some company your real email address, mainly because you don’t want to be flooded with spam, or maybe… Read More »
Where Did That Picture Come From? There are 1,267,490,238,449,831 pictures on the Internet – I’m just being facetious. One of them belongs to EB. Now you think an upstanding lady like EB would use her real picture on NotOverTheHill, wouldn’t you? But NOOOOO! If you do a reverse look-up on those fake pictures, you will find they are… Read More »
Welcome to the Fastlane Yesterday we featured an article in our Premium newsletter praising the FCC for voting in favor of keeping the Internet equally accessible to everyone with an Internet connection. Needless to say we were surprised when we received quite a few emails dissing us for supporting Net Neutrality. However, from the anti-net-neutrality emails we received,… Read More »