What to do when Adobe Flash crashes in Google Chrome I use Google Chrome as my default browser. Several times I’ve had Adobe Flash crash right in the middle of doing something important. It seems that Flash becoming unresponsive in Chrome is quite common. And it happens for a reason. Chrome comes with an integrated version of Flash… Read More »
The stars on thars (or how to quickly add a site to your Favorites or bookmarks) This tip applies to all modern browsers including Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer The last few Cloudeight Direct sessions, it occurred to me that most people have never noticed the star in (or near) their browser’s address bar. If you’re one of those… Read More »
“Discover”a phishing scam I received this email this morning and deleted it, and then thought about it and dragged it out of the deleted items folder. I thought this was a typical phishing scam designed to lure poor, unsuspecting folks who don’t subscribe to our newsletters … into giving up their Discover Card details. Since I don’t have… Read More »
AlternativeTo.net This is about evolution – no, not the kind you argue about with atheists and astrophysicists, but about software evolution. Remember when Bill Gates was a skinny geeky, god-like creature who ruled over the world of desktop PCs like a skinny, male school marm with funny glasses – deciding for us what we’d like and then, like… Read More »
Exporting Gmail Contacts for use in desktop Email program Three things we learned quickly after working on a few hundred computers: 1. People love their pictures 2. People love their music 3. People love their contacts list (address book) Another thing we’ve learned is a lot of you have Gmail accounts and it only seems reasonable to assume… Read More »
Official Download Links for Windows 10 Technical Preview and More There are those in the know who say that if you download and install Windows 10 Technical Preview that you’ll get all new versions as they come along (the so-called upgrade path) including the final (released to the public) version, thus avoiding the wait, the rush, the upgrade… Read More »