Despair.com “…The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.” Enough of those smiley faces! Down with those perky people who smile in the face of disaster, laugh at the inequity in the world, and ride their bikes through rain puddles giggling like a hyena. Enough! I tell you. Are you sick of inspiring aphorisms… Read More »
Ask.com / Interactive Corp. Does It Again All Windows Users For years, they’ve polluted computers with a nasty bundle of malware they called, ironically, FunWebProducts. FunWebProducts was a bundle of malware that lured innocent users with cute looking free smileys and emoticons and other supposedly fun stuff including such gems as MyEmailStationery, WebFetti, MyWebSearch. My, my, my how… Read More »
Leave The Candle Burning He left the candle burning, just as she had asked him to do. Though it had been seven years since she went away, every evening at nightfall he would light a candle. Every night while he tried to sleep through his pain and his loneliness, the candle flickered silently casting dancing shadows upon the… Read More »
UPS: We’ve Been Hacked The United Parcel Service announced Wednesday that customers’ credit and debit card information at 51 franchises in 24 states may have been compromised. There are 4,470 franchised center locations throughout the U.S., according to UPS. The malware began to infiltrate the system as early as January 20, but the majority of the attacks began… Read More »
Recently, Microsoft released updates for Windows 8.x that caused BSODs (Blue Screens of Death) on users’ PCs. After discovering this they silently pulled the updates and removed the links from their update site. A week later, updates released by Microsoft cause Windows 7 users problems. Many reported BSODs after installing the updates rendering some computers unbootable. Your results… Read More »
Windows 7 ‘s Calculator Of course you can use Windows 7’s Calculator to do simple calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; but Calculator also offers the advanced capabilities of a programming, scientific, and statistical calculator too. It has a unit of measure converter which includes angle, area, energy, length, power, pressure, temp, time, velocity, volume, weight… Read More »