If you have recently invested in a new laptop or tower computer, you may be looking for a way to offload your old one. Be sure to clean off your personal information or you may be handing out your company or personal information to thieves. Startling facts about e-waste. Consumer Reports reveals that 3 in [...]
After a lull during the summer, there is a huge upswing in phishing attacks, now on Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo mail, and others. Read the complete story at: http://lastwatchdog.com/unstoppable-phishing-attacks-blanket-facebook-twitter/
Here’s an interesting article in the BBC’s technical web section: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8297237.stm The gist is this – Iceland has more electricity than it can use, and its produced from geothermal, so there’s no carbon produced by making it. Plus, the cool temperatures can help keep all those servers cool with no air-conditioning costs. Iceland is busy [...]
You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on…
If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch,
“Who’s on first?” might have turned out something like this:
This is interesting The Robot Arm of the Law Grows Longer by Noel Sharkey
Use the DNS servers at OpenDNS for both your personal and business computers. It will dramatically decrease the chances that your computer will visit a “bad site.” This means less chance of identity theft or drive-by browser infections.
Urban Legends Find out what’s true, what’s not at http://www.snopes.com/ where the tagline is “Rumor has it…” Warren uses this site a lot when he gets emails that make statements that trigger his “could that really be true?” response. It’s also a fun read. Real or Fake? http://urbanlegends.about.com/ is another site that seems like they [...]
Internet Safety For Kids We don’t need to stoke the fires of paranoia. Who hasn’t heard enough stories about the dangers lurking out there for kids on the Internet. That said, some accurate information goes a long way towards helping kids safer when they’re parked in front of the browser. SafeKids.com NetSmartz.org The FBI has [...]
Internet Speed Test Gizmos Here’s a group of links for measuring your bandwidth. Most of them use either Flash, Java or Active-X http://www.speedtest.net http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ http://www.dslreports.com/stest http://www.cruzio.com
Ack! I have a virus! OK. Don’t panic, at least too much. We work a lot with PCs that “just aren’t running right.” All too often, it’s because there’s software that has gotten itself installed that you don’t want. Here’s some free tools for removing the bad stuff. In each case, these companies are providing [...]