An ISP is an Internet Service Provider. In today’s world, there aren’t many pure ISPs left – most are huge media companies like Time Warner, Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T. An ISP is supposed to provide you with Internet access. That’s what you’re paying an ISP to provide. Just like you pay the gas company to provide you with… Read More »
Again this week, we had one of our loyal subscribers send us a copy of a competing Windows newsletter who sent a special email to subscribers offering a “special deal” on a system information tool for $9.95 . Well that’s great, but since there are free system information tools that do the same things and provide the same… Read More »
Many of you will be getting new computers soon – Christmas is coming and all of that. And about half of you are still using Windows XP – and that’s fine. But those machines are getting older and the problems are going to increase – and in 2014 Windows is going to stop supporting XP which means you… Read More »
EB hangs in there with Internet Explorer, but TC’s default browser is Google Chrome. We both use Firefox occasionally. Firefox seems to have “grown” over the years and isn’t quite the fast, sleek browser it once was – but Firefox is still a great browser. Anyway, if you, like TC use Chrome as your default browser – or… Read More »
While the Internet and computers have changed so much in the last ten years, one of the things that most of us still really like are great desktop wallpapers. And National Geographic has some of the best photographers and photography in the world – for those of us who like to use our desktops to display beautiful photographs,… Read More »
Kathy wants to know about Active-X Can you tell me something about “ActiveX” files? I have dozens of them. Most are from HP and Microsoft. All are enabled. Just wondering what all these ActiveX files were. Must also tell you that I have been a fan of yours for years and love your guys. You have helped me… Read More »