There’s a delicate balance between keeping your children and grandchildren safe, and giving them some privacy so they can grow, mature and take responsibility. And then there is peer pressure which can goad even the best kids into doing inappropriate things. We’re on the fence about how much privacy a parent or grandparent to allow their children to… Read More »
A Trojan is a big wooden horse with lots of soldiers inside. Oh, no, wait, this is not the History Channel. A Trojan is program that appears legitimate, but performs some illicit activity when it is run. It may be used to locate password information or make the system more vulnerable to future entry or simply destroy programs… Read More »
This list is by no means meant to be a list of every single free office suite on the Web. But it’s a list of office suites we have tried. If you have a suggestion for a free office suite – either downloadable or “in the cloud”, offer it up in the comments section. We’d appreciate it and… Read More »
The venerable, old FBI issued its annual holiday safety tips. And they’re pretty good. We’ll give you their tips and then give you a few of ours. It’s very important that you be extra careful during the holiday season. Sometimes, for example, EB gets to draining a few too many holiday bowls and becomes — to put it… Read More »
Do you wish you could keep track of how your Gmail address is being used (i.e., when you sign up for something on the Web)? We featured a tip a while back about using the plus sign to create an alias from your Gmail addresses. The plus-addressing works like this: roger.smith121+paypal or julie.malinowsky+latimes @gmail.com . See? By adding… Read More »
It is the season to be jolly – and the season to be careful. The phishermen and phisherwomen are out in full force plying their trade with vigor. During the holidays, for some reason, people seem to be more vulnerable. You’ll see tons of emails supposedly from UPS, FedEx and DHL with official looking tracking numbers and telling… Read More »