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In my other life as a tech. writer for a newspaper, I receive many different inquires about different subjects, including this recent email question. The basic of the question  is for a user who is using Microsoft Windows XP w/ SP2 who wants to turn off Bluetooth support. Why? Because they don’t use it and [...]

Amazon is entering into the lucrative movies and tv show rental market.  This announcement by Amazon is going to put pressure on other companies, since Amazon has an infrastructure in place to handle this addition to their business. Amazon has proven a success and by adding a movie and tv show rental unit, will provide [...]

Depending on how much you really would like to know, a Google employee explains how Google’s ranking works. Well, not exactly. He actually explains the mechanics on how it works without explaining the secret sauce that goes into the process. But if you would like to read the spec’s from a ranking team member, this [...]

So I’m surfing the Internet when I run across an article that catches my eye, in which the author is asking why we continue to use Microsoft Office when Open Office is free.  Hmm…………….interesting. So I think about myself and what I use. You guessed it. I’m a Microsoft Office slave. But the question is [...]

It has happened to all of us. We try to get on a web site and receive an error message. So we keep trying until we get frustrated. But in the back of our minds remains this question. Is it the web site that is down or is it just me and my computer?
There is [...]

Yahoo is adding additional email services, one to be called ‘ymail.com’. As many of us are aware, over the years millions of people got yahoo mail addresses as secondary addresses to try and filter junk mail away from their primary email address. Many of these accounts may be dormant, or rarely used, but the [...]

Microsoft’s KB953818 deals with the threat of a combined attack for those using Apple’s Safari browser on a windows platform. Microsoft has issued the advisory and is suggesting Safari users refrain from using the browser until a fix is issued. In the advisory it further states:
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a blended threat [...]

I’m surfing the Internet when I run into an article about how to cure registry problems. The articles explains how the Windows Registry can become corrupted with malware, spyware and other intrusive files. The author goes on to explain in detail how this can slow down your PC. So far so good. But there is [...]

Over at PC Magazine there is an article in which the writer states that, for $125, you can upgrade a four-year-old system and have it running with the newer bad boys. The article shows how the replacing of the video card with a faster one, adding more RAM, upgrading to a DVD recorder, a wireless [...]

Last night my wife and I were having a pleasant dinner with a good friend of ours, when the subject of spyware popped into the conversion. He mentioned that he had downloaded a product off of the Internet that suggested his system had over 6,000 infections. I looked at him at first thinking he had [...]