Our Little Rant by Eightball & Thundercloud (From our Information Avenue Premium Edition Newsletter – August 13, 2004) If I Were the King Of The Internet Since Eightball’s on vacation this week I have proclaimed myself to be king of the Internet. Well, not really, but if I were there would be some changes. NOTICE TO SCUMBAGS: All… Read More »
Learn a Language Free I recently revisited a really wonderful site where anyone, even me(!) can learn learn a new language absolutely free. As in no charge. As in nada. Zed. Zip. Hmm… The site and teaches you a new language by letting you play games. There are written and spoken aspects — but don’t worry if you… Read More »
Three Windows 10 Tricks It’s time to take time for some fun stuff. Here are three Windows 10 tricks you might not know. You might even find them useful. Anyway… have fun! Desktop Trick Have you noticed the thin strip at the far-right edge of your taskbar? It looks like this: Did you know if your click it… Read More »
Use Windows 10 Metered Connection to Stop Some Automatic Updates While most folks didn’t have a problem updating to the current version of Windows 10 (Windows 10 Fall Creators Update – Version 1709, as of this writing) some folks did have problems. And after a couple of failed attempts, they find that Microsoft repeatedly tries to install the… Read More »
Emsisoft Receives Another Award A few years back, after Malwarebytes and Windows Security Essentials both let users down ( see our articles on Malwarebytes here and here ) we began testing other antimalware and antivirus solutions. After several weeks of intense testing, we found Emsisoft protected computers better than any other security product we tested. But even thought we… Read More »
What to Do If You Lose All Your Gmail Messages Although it is extremely unlikely you will ever lose the mail messages your store on you Gmail account on the Web – we do know of at least one case where that did happen. And while the solution to recover your lost Gmail mail messages is not prefect… Read More »