Over the last few weeks we’ve had several letters from readers who wanted to know the best way to delete data from their hard drives before selling their computers or giving them to someone. It’s a good question because giving your computer to someone – or selling it – may expose very personal information about you – including… Read More »
We’ve finally found a site that we can’t find anything to make merry about. There are literally thousands of you, right now reading this newsletter (or the Posterous post), who’ve always wished they could put something on the Web. You might have wanted to post a page of witty things or your favorite quotes, or, post a picture… Read More »
Charlie thinks we take cookies too lightly I’ve read your opinion about cookies and I think you don’t realize their danger. My security program often warns me of threats and many of them are tracking cookies. I think you’d do your readers a better service by showing a little more concern about cookies. They’re not as harmless as… Read More »
How to lose money honestly. Yep! That’s us! We’re going to give you all a lesson in how not to run a business. We’re going to show you how stupid we are by cutting our own throats right in front of your eyes. Heads up! As most of you know, we’re big Roboform fans. We’ve been using Roboform… Read More »
Most of us like to play around with pictures – it’s fun to see what you can do with different photographs. And to do amazing things with digital photographs you need good image editing software, and there’s a lot of good image editing software, some of which is free. One of the hardest things to do is to… Read More »
Did you know that email links are specialized hyperlinks? Instead of starting with http:// they start with mailto: . We don’t know how useful you’ll find this tip but if nothing else you can amaze your friends. Click here to mail Mr. Elephant Go ahead, click that link, it won’t bite – just don’t press send because there… Read More »