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Well, I have finally made the switch. After using Firefox for quite a few years, I have now made Chrome my default web browser. This wasn’t just a “cold-turkey” change – I have been using Chrome more and more recently anyway. And overall I am happy with the switch. But there was one thing that [...] Read more »
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As you read this, you are looking at more than just the text on the screen. What you are actually viewing are pixels. Those are the extremely tiny dots that make up what is being displayed on your screen. Depending on your screen, there could be many thousands of them or even more than a [...] Read more »
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If you spend any time at all on Facebook, you know there are some things that are a regular feature: fake pictures and hoax stories. Some of these things are the so outlandish, it’s amazing that anyone could actually believe them. But people fall for them time after time. And they re-post the same thing [...] Read more »
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I turned off UAC (User Account Control) on my computer long ago, but I still see it pop up on client computers pretty regularly. It’s only still there because people have gotten used to being forced to click on it, and they don’t know how to turn it off. Take a look at the [...] Read more »
I have had quite a few clients asking about this, and it’s something I have been considering adding for some time. It is now available – my 30-point Computer Tune-up. Any computer benefits from a regular tune-up, and the one I do is comprehensive. It includes all of the important functions of your computer, [...] Read more »
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Some people tell me, “I’m not really too concerned about hackers getting on my computer… there’s nothing on there that anyone would want anyway!” Not true. Your computer has value to a cyber-criminal in a variety of different ways that you might not even be aware of. Here are a few things the bad [...] Read more »
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I love automation. If there is something on the computer that I do regularly, it’s always nice to find a way to have the computer handle that for me automatically. After all, that’s what the computer is good at – following instructions, never wavering, never late, always dependable. There’s a great automated service (that is [...] Read more »
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All of the popular web browsers have the ability to go into “private” mode . This means that the websites you visit won’t show up in history, and those sites won’t place any cookies on your computer for tracking purposes. There are actually some legitimate purposes for this. 1. Shopping for birthday or Christmas [...] Read more »
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This is a current popular scam that unfortunately snags a lot of unsuspecting computer users. It’s the Fake Tech Support scam. You get a call from someone claiming to be with “Microsoft” or from “Windows” and they tell you that your computer has been reporting some problems and viruses, so they need to just [...] Read more »
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Don’t you hate having to type in your user name and password every time you visit Facebook, Gmail, or another website requiring login? Or maybe you have had it set up in the past that these sites would remember your email address and have it already entered for you, and you just had to put [...] Read more »
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