This has nothing to do with the news media’s over-reaction to Google’s lawyers’ unfortunate use of the phrase “no expectation of privacy”, although it does remind us to remind you that email is a very insecure form of communication. But if you encrypt email, someone has to decrypt it to read it. Most encryption programs are arcane and… Read More »
For the first time since the worse Windows ever (Windows ME) was released, I am using an older version of Windows than the current version. I have both Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers, but I use my Windows 7 computer almost all of the time. Windows 8 was a Microsoft blunder that could very well create a… Read More »
In 1755 (Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, Tue, Nov 11, 1755), Benjamin Franklin wrote: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Since 9/11, those of us who live in the United States have seen our constitutional protections dissolve in a frenzy of paranoia. And I want… Read More »
There have been programs around for a long time that will convert all sorts of documents to PDF, but until now, most of them did this by using a trick that works by making a virtual printer that converts the document into PDF format. Unfortunately, the PDF files created this way, while in PDF format aren’t completely functional.… Read More »
Wow! We opened up a big can of worms with our tip on what your computer stores about your Web browsing — and not just the stuff your browsers store in temp files. It seems some of our friends using Vista ( and maybe other versions of Windows, although we found on Windows 7 no elevation was needed)… Read More »
How many of you think using a good cleanup program removes all traces of your web browsing? Raise your hands. OK, that’s just about all of you — you CCLeaner users seem particularly smug. OK, go ahead, make my day. Copy this post, paste it in a notepad file or an email, or your favorite text editor, and… Read More »