We learned a long time ago that antivirus alone doesn’t really do much at all. Most of us are very, very unlikely to encounter a virus on the Internet – we’re far more likely to encounter rogues, bundlers, and other malware. We’ve been saying Norton and McAfee are wastes of system resources (as well as some other antivirus… Read More »
Watch out, Yahoo! EFF looses BADGER on sites that ignore Do Not Track In the wake of Yahoo!‘s decision to stop honoring browsers’ Do Not Track signals, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a new blacklisting tool that will automatically block tracking cookies from sites that refuse to support DNT. Dubbed Privacy Badger, the tool is available as a… Read More »
Hidden Windows Feature: Wipe free disk space with a simple command This tip applies to Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8x By now you know (or you should know) that when you delete files or folders in Windows, they’re not really deleted. Not even close. Deleting a file or folder merely tells Windows that the… Read More »
Ohio couple married for 70 years dies hours apart (Reuters) – An Ohio couple who met as teenagers and were married for 70 years, almost never sleeping apart, died from natural causes within a span of 15 hours, according to their daughter. Helen Felumlee, 92, died on April 12 at their home in Nashport, Ohio, about 55… Read More »
Long expected Start Button for Windows 8 comes out in August The Build developer conference at the beginning of April was quite a surprising one, some might say. At first, Windows 8 has given lots of headaches because of the lack of classic elements users were used to. Like the Start button, which not only disappeared, but it… Read More »
Go time traveling with Google Maps Google adds new time machine feature to let users see older images of favorite places, buildings By Sharon Gaudin Google is giving users something of a time machine in a new feature on Maps. The company is adding past images of places noted in Street View for the desktop version of Google… Read More »