The latest is another series of Google rumors is that the company may still have plans to bid on the 700 spectrum which the FCC will put up for grabs in January 2008. To add to the hype Google has been testing an advanced wireless system at their Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. So [...]
Make sure your system is up to date and that you have the latest protections in place.
AVG anti-virus: 11/17/07
Norton anti-virus: 11/14/07
McAfee anti-virus: 11/14/07
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 11/15/07
Spybot Search and Destroy: 11/14/07
Microsoft Windows Defender: 11/15/07
Nod32: 11/16/07
Updates as of November, 18, 2007 6:00am CDT.
Tags: avg, norton, mcafee, lavasoft, spybot, defender, nod32
I’m sure I am not the first one to receive such an invite, but there it was in my mailbox. A ticket for me and a guest to join Internet Income Training [a $120.00 value] for FREE! This private event was being held at a local hotel where I live and includes either a free [...]
Last evening I saw the latest Mac vs PC commercial in which the PC guy wants everyone to get Vista so they have to buy new hardware. He goes on to state that he has even dumped Vista and went back to Windows XP just like everyone else has. All the time the Mac guy [...]
During my travels around the Internet I ran into an article about a couple of hackers at a conference who hacked a Windows XP machine. One of the attendees was a Microsoft executive who called the exhibition ‘frightening’. If that all there was to the story, one would think that we XP users were being [...]
Microsoft must be feeling pretty confident that SP1 for Vista is moving in the right direction since on Wednesday they released SP1 RC Preview for download. I got a copy of it last evening and today burned the file to CD for installation.
One note: If you are using Vista SP1 beta, you must uninstall the [...]
This is hot news that is really going to make your day and will complete your life in all of its glory. Yes, the liars are all out this morning making false claims, as to who is the king of console sales for the month of October. At first I was going to provide links [...]
Not only is this question asked many times in the forums that I belong to, but is still asked my many new users who are confused on which format to use. Basically NTFS provides for increased security, file–by–file compression and encryption and has become the standard for all new computer systems. But wonder if your [...]
Several websites this morning are reporting that the development team over at Mozilla is possibly considering not fixing all of the 700+ bugs in their new Firefox 3 browser. Instead the reports seem to indicate that only 20% of the critters may be addressed in the new release. One good note is that all security [...]
Ever since Vista came out, there has been a chorus of voices who keep threatening ‘I’m dumping Vista and buying a MAC.’ Sometime they shout they are going to go with Linux. Which I personally believe is their God given right to do so. But enough already with the threats. Just do it and [...]
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Back in December I wrote an article about the adapter problems that seem to plague the Dell Inspiron 1501 notebook computer. [Article here] It is amazing that I am still receiving comments on this problem from Dell users. This morning I went to [...]
For those of you who still chose to use any of Symantec’s anti-virus products, you should be aware of some of the false detections that may occur. One of my fellow MVP’s has written an article about the problem. Another MVP is even suggesting that Symantec should be dumped because of poorly written detections. On [...]
During the past three weeks or so I have been trying to locate not one, but two, Nintendo Wii’s for the grand kids. I have learn a lot during my quest and I thought I would share some of my findings. Some of the hints I received came from readers here who posted comments [...]
I write a newspaper column dedicated to computer information for beginning users. Part of the column includes a Q&A where people can email me questions. Today I received an email from a reader that I found of interest.
I recently called XXXX for tech. support on a problem I was having. After ten minutes I felt [...]
With memory pricing at an all time low, I at first thought this may be a typo. But over at the apple store they are asking $1200.00 for 2G memory dimm! No, it can’t be.
So I called 1-800-My-Apple. Yeap. That is the price.
Check out the site here.
No wonder people buy PC’s. Price for 2G of [...]
Microsoft continues to down play the Open Handset Alliance that Google has setup saying that it is all just on paper. Well this week Google released the first look at their development software. Seems we have gone from paper to reality in just under a week. No bad Google.
On the Open Hanset Alliance site they [...]
Reader Malcolm posted a link to a defragmenter program that he recommends which he states has been working very well for him. So I decided to give it a try and see how good it really is. On their web site it states that:
The World’s Most Efficient FREE Defragmentation Software
What’s the primary cause of slow/unstable [...]
My buddy Denny sent this information to me concerning Maxtor Basic hard disks that may have a virus already installed on the disk at purchase. Seems that a sub-contractor in China is to blame for the virus and Seagate had stopped production when the virus was spotted on the drives. They also stated:
If you have [...]
I have done several articles concerning the memory problem that Firefox seems to exhibit, and from the comments I have received, I believe the problem is for real. So I was somewhat surprised when I read that the Mozilla team had blown off this issue, since they were unable to duplicate the problems for the [...]
Since installing Windows Vista SP1, I have been using my Vista box a lot more since the performance has vastly improved. I may be one of the lucky ones, but thus far I have not run into a single glitch. Last week I did receive an update from Microsoft in which it stated there had [...]
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