The star you’ve never seen

The star you’ve never seen (or how to quickly add a site to your Favorites or bookmarks) All Windows users — 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 who’ve never… Read More »

Windows XP: Using it beyond April 2014

Nothing we say here in any way in meant to encourage anyone to use Windows XP past its expiration date this April. We are NOT recommending that anyone use Windows XP beyond the end official end of Microsoft support. With that being said, we are also aware there are many who are not going to stop using XP… Read More »

Just a Moment

When we say “just a moment” do we ever consider what a moment really is? We say “just a moment” without thinking of what moments mean in our lives. Does a moment reflect a certain amount of time? Does a moment in time mean something different to each one of us? Is a moment a measurement of time… Read More »

Even Microsoft Employees Get Phished

Even Microsoft employees – who should no better – fall for phishing scams. It appears that a group of miscreants known as the Syrian Electronic Army fooled some Microsoft employees into giving up their Microsoft email account credentials thus allowing access into the bowels of Microsoft. (Yuck!). Anyway, you really need to be careful not to fall for… Read More »