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If you have upgraded your Windows XP installation to XP3 and are using IE 8 Beta 1, you may wish to read this IE blog entry to make sure you do not fall between the cracks. What cracks? If you have installed SP3 after installing IE Beta 1, you will need to uninstall IE Beta […]

At first I thought this was just a fluke for one user, than this past weekend I received two more emails and requests for assistance for the same problem. The user has a ! marked over their AVG icon and receives an error that a .bin file is missing. Normally this can be repaired by […]

Over at IT Wire they have a story about fake news articles allegedly from CNN or MSNBC, are being spoofed in an attempt to spread malware and spyware onto computer systems. The article states that the amount of fake news spam is about 5 million articles per hour. But is that a lot of spam? […]

The folks over at Microsoft have a new blog that they call E7 for short, in which they will be providing information for the next version of  Windows 7. It is a welcome relief to know that a blog dedicated to Windows 7 is available and hopefully this may just keep the rumor mill to […]

Some of you may recall the minor problem I had with my Google gmail account, that took about 5 days to finally get resolved. So when I saw this web site with the phone numbers for Google customer service and other links, I thought I would post the information here.
Google Contact Info:
1. Main phone number […]

Google is offering a way to setup secure group websites in a easy and simple to use format with no HTML required. On their site Google claims that Sites has a better integration with other Google products such as Google Doc’s. Google lists these features for Sites as:

Google Sites makes creating and sharing a group […]

As many of you know, I also write computer articles for a newspaper in California. This morning I received this message from a reader in response to an article I had done about upgrading to Windows Vista. After reading the email, I thought this would be something I could share with my readers here at […]

What happened to Yahoo? LOL Microsoft has decided to buy semantic search engine Powerset to help to improve its image aa s search rival to Google. In a statement Steve Ballmer has mentioned that search is going to be Microsoft’s number one priority. In the article it states:
By buying Powerset, Microsoft is hoping to close […]

It took six years in the making but the Icann, the group that regulates the Internet, has approved an overhaul on domain names. The overhaul will allow companies to use their own brand names and not be saddled with .com, uk, or others. Icann also is going to allow Asian, Arabic and other script as […]

If you are considering giving Linux a try and want to learn more about this open source operating system, LinuxCommand.org may be a good place to start. I guess the best way to describe the command line for Linux is that it is similar to what we did with DOS to fix some Windows problems. […]