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Wordpad and Paint are most likely not your most favorite programs to use, but your opinion may change with Windows 7. Wordpad and Paint have basically been the same since Windows 95 with the same look and feel all the way up to Vista. These programs were extremely limited in what they could do and [...]

The new theme for those seeking people to date is ‘Look Up Before You Hook Up’ for those who date people on line. DateCheck is offering an application to be used on your Apple iPhone that can look up information that people may want to hid. The app can check on net worth, marital status [...]

You may recall the case in which a Wyoming banking institution sent the records of some 1300 bank customers to the wrong Gmail address. [See original post here] The bank wanted Google to reveal the Gmail account user information but Google said not without a court order. So not only did the bank get a [...]

I received notification this morning that Microsoft will start its Windows 7 forum on September 28, 2009. The public is invited to join the forum, which will be monitored by Microsoft support personnel, MVPs, and others. If you are considering upgrading to Windows 7, have Windows 7 RTM, or will be purchasing a PC with [...]

A leaked memo from Best Buy states that Nintendo will drop the price of their popular Wii to $199 this weekend. When this happens we need to all act surprised at the price cut. Nintendo has been happy to charge we consumers $249 for the past 3 years, so dropping their price to $199 should [...]

Internet Explorer 6 is now eight years old and is not Web compliant. Microsoft has been trying to get IE 6 users to upgrade but without success. It seems that many companies won’t allow their users to upgrade IE 6 because of deployment policies and internal standardization that sound outdated. So it seems that [...]

It is usually Microsoft and its Windows software that holds the title as bloatware. But now the founding father of Linux is admitting that the operating system he founded has become “bloated and huge.” Linus Torvalds also thinks that there is no diet plan in sight to trim down the Linux OS. So what does [...]

In what can only be described as irresponsible, a bank employee for a Wyoming bank sent sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account. But it gets better. The employee was only supposed to send loan statements for a customer but somehow sent an attachment which contained personal information for 1,325 banking customers.
In a recent [...]

Competition in the marketplace between Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft is good for consumers since we are starting to see price reductions on gaming consoles. Microsoft has not only dropped the price of the Xbox 360 Elite but is now offering a $50 rebate. Here are the details:

$50 Rebate on Xbox 360 Elite Console Purchase!
You can [...]

Netflix has seemed to find a sure fire way to get what it needs by offering a $1 million prize as a carrot. In its first million dollar prize offering, it wanted a better software that could statistically predict what movies its customers would like to see. The criteria was that the new software had [...]

The social networking site MySpace has announced that both MySpace & Twitter users will be able to sync their status. This will allow users of both social networking sites to allow friends and followers to interact with the content they post Web-wide. In a statement from the Senior Product Manager of MySpace, Sharon Nguyen, [...]

Netgear is offering a network drive system in which a home user could store all of their documents, photos, music, whatever in one location. The files would be available to all computers on the home network. But there is one question that is tough to answer, and that is: who is going to use it?
Microsoft [...]

Yesterday I was talking to my nephew about the deal Microsoft is offering to students who can purchase Windows 7 Home Premium for $30. My nephew wondered out loud why this wasn’t being done for all consumers? It made me think why wasn’t Microsoft giving all consumers the same deal?
IMHO I believe that Microsoft does [...]

A friend of mine sent me a link to Speedy Fox and asked me to take a look at it. Speedy Fox claims to optimize your profile data and speed up how fast Firefox opens. I gave Speedy Fox a try and I did notice a minor speed increase when the browser opened. So I [...]

Amazon is slowing gearing up for the introduction of its own house brands. I took a look at the slim offerings when one product caught my eye. Amazon was offering 100 DVD-R blank disks for only $18.39, which is a great price. I am not sure how much shipping cost is because I have an [...]

As unbelievable as it may sound, a court has ruled that it is OK for employees to hack their employer’s computer, even if it is for disloyal purposes. The court went on to say that employees do not lose or exceed that access under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, even when they steal data [...]

Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.

AVG anti-virus: 09/20/09
Avast: 09/17/09
Norton anti-virus: 09/16/09
McAfee anti-virus: 09/16/09
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 09/18/09
Spybot Search and Destroy: 09/16/09
Microsoft Windows Defender: 09/16/09
Nod32: 09/17/09

Updates as of September 20, 2009 6:00am CDT.

California is proposing a new energy efficient standard for televisions in its quest to cut energy use. The state is in the process of establishing requirements for televisions that would require the sets to meet new standards starting in 2011. The proposal will be expanded in 2013 and require TV’s to use 1/2 the energy [...]

I thought sites that used blinking text were all gone, but every once in a while I stumble upon a site that still uses blinking text. I don’t know about you, but I dislike blinking text and did a Google to find out how to stop it. I found this gem over at How-To-Geek showed [...]

The FCC would like to ban the wireless companies from limiting bandwidth. The hope is that by doing this it will open up more video streaming, graphics-rich games, movie and music downloads plus other services to consumers. On the flip side the wireless companies complain that it is their toy and if people want to [...]