A few days ago I was thinking about what will be some of the news makers in 2008, when it stuck me that the news makers will be far and few between. But the stories we will read about will follow a similar path to those written in 2007. Let me explain. With millions of […]
Make sure your system is up to date and that you have the latest protections in place.
AVG anti-virus: 12/30/07
Norton anti-virus: 12/26/07
McAfee anti-virus: 12/26/07
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 12/28/07
Spybot Search and Destroy: 12/26/07
Microsoft Windows Defender: 12/26/07
Nod32: 12/28/07
Updates as of December 30, 2007 6:00am CDT.
Have a great New Year.
Tags: avg, norton, mcafee, lavasoft, spybot, defender, nod32
As I previously mentioned, my wife and I were fortunate enough to latch onto a couple of Wii consoles for the X-Mas holidays for our grandkids. That’s not really true. I think the parents have more fun than the kids do. I have learned some things over the X-mas holidays that you may already know […]
Seceval months ago I wrote about the Zonbu desktop system, which basically incorporates using the Internet for all of your computing needs. This morning I discovered that Zonbu now offers a laptop system to compliment their services. I also found a user review that provided an in depth analysis and user opinion of the new […]
You do have to laugh. Now that the FTC has given the Google + Double-Click deal an OK, Microsoft is now attacking Google via the EU saying Google would be a monopoly. Apparently the approval of the EU is the last step that Google needs in order to close the deal. Yet Microsoft wants […]
Microsoft has a free tool that you may wish to add to your toolkit. Called AutoRuns the tool provides an in depth look at all auto starting processes on your system. On their web site Microsoft states:
Introduction
This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs […]
We have all seen the PC vs Mac commercials on TV. In one of the commercials the PC guy tries to defend a position that Vista doesn’t run faster on a Mac than it does on a PC. The reference is to a previous report made by PC World, which posted an article on this […]
Two weeks ago I mentioned here that I was trying a new product called eBoostr that basically works similar as Ready Boost does for Vista. I originally stated that:
To begin with, the eBoostr software costs $29.00 and currently comes with 2 years of support and upgrades if ordered before December 31, 2007. In addition to […]
I received the January 2008 of Technet magazine this morning and was glancing through it when I discovered this tool. What brought my attention to it was the following incident which occurred about a month or so ago. My buddy Denny called me and he was having trouble transferring info from an XP box over […]
Sony has recently announced that it will concentrate its efforts in manufacturing more LCD televisions, and will stop shipping rear projections sets effective immediately. Sony will continue to supply the RP sets until all current supplies are exhausted. In the future the Bravia series will be LCD only.
When I first read this announcement from Sony, […]
