How to Shutdown or Restart Your Computer When You Can’t Access the Start Menu or the Shutdown dialog If you’ve ever had the unfortunate experience of trying to shutdown or restart your computer when when your Start menu or taskbar are unresponsive…it can be daunting. One obvious way to to shut down is to simply power off your… Read More »
Backup Your Google Drive on Your Computer Many of you use Gmail and if you use Gmail you probably use Google Drive. In fact you can use Google Drive (Google Docs) instead of installing an Office program – Google Drive can open and create most Microsoft Office type files. You can also use Google Drive to store files… Read More »
CLOUDEIGHT DIRECT EVERYTHING KEYS ARE BACK FOR CHRISTMAS! Buy one Everything Key for yourself for $49, or for just $20 more get a 2nd key for a friend! That’s right! When you buy one Everything key for yourself, you can purchase a 2nd Everything Key for a friend for just $20. Everything Keys never expire! They are good… Read More »
Christmas Magic It is still three weeks until Christmas, yet it seems that everyone is already feeling the Christmas spirit, except me. I take a walk down the quiet street, the hoot of my jacket pulled over my head. It’s raining. Again. And Christmas lights glowing in the rain do not look like Christmas lights to me. They… Read More »
The Pharmer in the Dell: Redux Ten years ago, in 2005, Dell tried sneaking malware/PUPs onto their computers and we wrote it up and called them out. In 2012 we republished the article ( with some changes ) because Dell again tried to trick consumers into purchasing computers with pre-installed malware and/or PUPs. Well, the more things change, the… Read More »
You Can Control Spam the Way We Control Spam Before we begin, we have never found a program to control spam well enough for us to use it for our business. We’ve tried them all including Mailwasher and the anti-spam components in security suites we’ve tested. They have the same flaws, either they filter out some… Read More »