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 »
Nick wants to know about how ISPs block mail and …. Like many others i regularly have your newsletter blocked by my ISP. when i don’t get it i go to your website, copy and paste it into an email and send it to myself. a bit of a pain but it works fine. my question is why… Read More »
Wilma says Windows Media Player 12 doesn’t work on her Windows 7 computer Thanks for all the good advice in the past, I have a question. I liked WMP 11 better (the mini one on the taskbar) and I followed some bad advise on the internet to get it installed. It didn’t work and now my WMP 12… Read More »
Cecil asks: “Why do my YouTube videos keep stopping and starting?” Whenever I try to watch a you tube video that has been sent to me from friends, the video will play for 3 or 4 sec and stops and reloads then will play for another 3 or 4 sec until the video is complete, which is frustrating… Read More »
As most of you know, we exposed CNET and its software bundling last September. Apparently not enough people read our article to get their attention, but behold! On December 7, CNET’s Vice President and General Manager, Sean Murphy, issued the following open letter to all CNET Community Members – which we assume includes a lot people who download… Read More »