You’re on the Web and you’re browsing around when suddenly you encounter a popup that tells you your machine is infected with a gazillion viruses and Trojans – and a few hundred thousand spyware files. And if you just “click here” all your problems will be solved and your PC will be cleaner than a sterilized drill. Of… Read More »
How many of you who have Gmail accounts have noticed the link at the bottom of Gmail account main page that says “Last account activity… Details” (which Details being underlined as a clickable link)? If you haven’t seen it before, open your Gmail account right now, sign in and click the link “Details” next to “Last account activity” near… Read More »
Mike wants to know how to enable check boxes on Windows 8x I just got a new computer with Windows 8 on it. I had Windows 7 before and in one of your newsletters you had an article about using checkboxes to select files in Windows Explorer. I really loved the check boxes feature and used it all… Read More »
The Password Is Finally Dying. Here’s Mine by John Kuczala WSJ The password to my Twitter TWTR +1.29% account, which has been mine since 2007 and through which I have published more than 51,000 tweets, is “christophermims.” Knowing that won’t help you hack it, however. In fact, I’m publishing my password to make a point: The password is finally dying, if we… Read More »
Four great tips for Windows 1. Click your mouse wheel to close a browser tab. You can do it, yes you can. Most of us use the mouse wheel to scroll pages and other common mouse wheel stuff. But if you press down on your mouse wheel you’ll notice it depresses just bit. Well, did you know that just… Read More »
Right-click any folder and print a list of its contents without installing any 3rd-party software How nice would it be if you could simply right-click any folder and be able to print a list of all the files and folders inside it? It would be so nice that Microsoft realizes how nice it would be if you could… Read More »