Yo! I plead guilty. I have 297 software programs installed on this computer. I probably use maybe 40. Of the 297 programs I have installed, I’ve installed about 240 of them to test for this newsletter. I’ve sacrificed my beautiful desktop for you, dear reader. I don’t mind though, I have fun playing with new programs. Rarely, however,… Read More »
Glenda wants to know how to get rid of AVG How can i get AVG off my computer?? Our answer It appears that more and more once great free antivirus programs are following the bad example set by Norton and McAfee – beginning with turning into security suites first, and apparently now becoming darn near impossible to completely… Read More »
Add-ons can add functionality to your browser. Firefox has a lot of great add-ons that work well and don’t slow Firefox to a crawl. But there are others which can adversely affect Firefox’s performance – some can not only cause Firefox to run slower but take a lot longer for it to start up. Without any add-ons, Firefox… Read More »
Since we’ve discussed the cloud and its pervasiveness (and it’s still in its infancy really) many times in this newsletter; we want to cover another subject which we’ve written about often in these pages: passwords. We’ve received dozens of emails from people who are really afraid of what the cloud may bring in the way of security breaches… Read More »
Susan wants to know how all about clean boots Can you please explain what a clean boot is and why someone would want to do a clean boot? One of my friends is reading a bunch of computer books and she was trying to explain to me about doing a clean boot but she wasn’t making any sense.… Read More »
Dan shares some of his observations about WOT (Web of Trust) “jeff134” This user posted about 200,000 negative posts. On a whole assortment of webpages including the vastly important Erowid on 4/30/11 as soon as I saw how much power they gave one individual I realized the scam that WOT had degenerated into. I have seen false positives.… Read More »