Defending Our Decision to Support Our XP Users for One More Year Recently we worked on an XP computer belonging to a lady who is a member of a computer club. After we finished cleaning and optimizing her computer, removing malware, installing Chrome, configuring it, importing IE favorites, and then installing and configuring Emsisoft, we pronounced her computer… Read More »
Which Browser Is Most Secure On Your Old Windows XP System? You should be upgrading from Windows XP, but we have to face facts — many people won’t upgrade before the end-of-support date. If you’re still using one of those XP computers, the best thing you can do is ditch Internet Explorer for a more modern browser. This… Read More »
Google Turns Today’s Biggest Privacy Issue Into Weird Playmobil Video Google wants you to know exactly how it deals with U.S. government requests for user data. That’s good! But the company wants to explain it to you with stop-motion wooden toys, like you’re some kind of three year old. That’s . . . weird. This odd little video… Read More »
I’ve seen statues of great men: Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Pasteur, Churchill, and others. They were all heroes in their time. I’ve met famous politicians. But, I have never considered any of them heroes though. Politicians today are a breed apart from ordinary folks. That’s a good thing, I assure you. Whenever I hear a politician speak I watch… Read More »
What is the Deep Web? (Thanks to our friends at Emsisoft for allowing us to share this article with you!) The term “Deep Web” was first defined in 2001 by Bright Planet’s Michael K. Bergman but has origins as early as 1994, when Jill Ellsworth referred to an “invisible Web.” Today, the “Deep Web” refers to websites that… Read More »
This program isn’t a software witch that will fly around your neighborhood on a cyber-broom and cast spells on people you don’t like. If it were, I’d download this little application and cast a spell on my neighbor and make him dread his lawnmower. Maybe then he wouldn’t cut his grass six times a week and make me… Read More »