You Say You Never Put Your Personal Information Online… We all know someone who doesn’t have Internet access and who doesn’t want it. And when they hear about someone having their identity stolen or a company being hacked and millions of users’ personal information is stolen, they’ll look at you and say… “See? This is why I’ll never… Read More »
Meet the $7 smartwatch (CNN) — The Apple Watch will sell for $349 when it hits stores next year. Motorola’s Moto 360 goes for $249 and Samsung’s smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, starts at $199. Now, a Chinese company wants to sell you one for $7. Fastfox, a technology startup, says keeping software simple and hardware minimal lets them… Read More »
Lies, Misinformation, Half-truths, and Sensationalism We recently received an email from a very loyal subscriber who is very interested in computers and in getting information she can use to keep herself safe on the Internet and to keep her computer running well. And we think a lot of you fit into that category, and we also commend all… Read More »
Adobe fixes Flash Player bug again: Wait, is it safe now? Adobe Flash Player users are being urged by the company to download and update the latest patch that addresses some major holes in security of the program, and the devices that the program is running on. The fix is geared to adequately fix the flaw that’s called… Read More »
Web Mail – Ad Free As a small, mom & pop site, we know how important ads are to our revenue stream; we’re pretty sure it’s important to other small sites like ours. That’s why we are not generally in favor of ad-blockers; they punish small sites and don’t really affect the big boys because the big boys… Read More »
Softonic: The Software Parasite If you search for freeware programs using Google, Bing or Yahoo search, more than likely one of the top 3 or 4 search results is going to be Softonic (en.softonic). And if you click the link to download from Softonic, you’re in for a long ride, and you’ll be setting up your computer for… Read More »