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I like the idea, but I think Comcast might need to rethink delivery. See, the concept of alerting users that it appears that their PCs are infected with malware using a banner is not really the right approach. I say this as clearly anyone paying attention is going to setup fake banners to look like [...]

Today I am writing to tell you about how I am able to get three great magazines of my choosing for less than what it takes to go out to eat at a local fast food joint. While some folks out there are still raving on about digital publications over portable eBook readers, I find [...]

I am, generally speaking, a fan of many things Verizon. FiOS destroys cable Internet on every level, and its mobile service own AT&T’s hands down with reliability based on my own usage and from what I have heard from others.
Currently, we have both Verizon and AT&T phones. The short story is that both of our [...]

As I read this article, I, too, found myself feeling what many in the IT community feel about using OS X. Macs are great, but I can buy a usable Dell for half the dollar amount to accomplish most of the same tasks. While it is true the Dell for half the amount has less [...]

As if we did not have enough malware and phishing concerns these days. This latest report on a security threat that all platform users might want to keep an eye on is rather disturbing. Apparently there is now malware out there that will go so far as to fabricate a fake page representing your latest [...]

How long must people in rural areas wait for broadband? Honestly, it is anyone’s guess at this time. We remain a laughing stock in comparison to other industrialized nations in this area. And while it is true that we have more land mass than some of those nations, it does not change the fact that, [...]

Today I spent a part of my lunch time working on a PC that is to go to a friend of the family. It’s an AMD Sempron based system — nothing to write home about. But with the additional RAM I plan on adding, it will be perfect for the person that is to receive [...]

In the past, I have had a difficult time using the terms Microsoft and security in the same sentence without bursting into laughter. Yet after seeing Microsoft’s latest anti-malware tool known as MSE, I think that we might finally see the Redmond giant releasing a tool that actually works as advertised.
In the past, Microsoft was [...]

Like the title is a newsflash for those of you who are using the first generation iPhone. I have been reading posts all over the Internet about how Apple should burn because it is not providing MMS to your iPhone model.
Well I have another way of looking at this. Let’s think of it is this [...]

So I have a special give away coming up that involves one of the best magazine subscription giveaways I have seen in a very long time, but yet I find myself in a bit of a pickle. I have been tasked with setting a contest in which I have a couple of great give-aways to [...]

Thus far, the build up for Windows 7 is not as mindbogglingly stupid as we found with Vista, but if this video is an indicator… Microsoft has not learned ANYTHING.

I am not a rich man. Pretty run of the mill, I would say. And my computing needs reflect this well, I believe. So when I found myself in a position to begin thinking about purchasing a new computer, I initially started off on some of the most common tech related shopping engines.
After locating some [...]

Because of my scathing piece previously about how Google makes account recovery a shell game dependent on actually remembering a date in an era where we can barely remember what we had for breakfast, I opted to try out its business class services.
After spending about thirty minutes with it, I am going to go on [...]

Today I learned that Skype’s CEO is lobbying to allow Skype to be used over 3G networks. Really? Yes, it is true that while some 3G networks are TERRIBLE, in smaller communities they are not too bad. So it would stand to reason that Skype could be seen as competition to the mobile carriers and [...]

If I was forced to choose between using Snow Leopard vs Windows 7, I would likely choose Windows 7 simply because of the hardware choices. With either OS, I find that both are perfectly capable of doing anything I could want. So after reading this piece, I felt like the writer clearly has some issues [...]

Network quality, while great when reaching for the mainstream, also translates into totally missing a target market of geeks and tech enthusiasts. About the only thing Verizon has going for its mobile offerings from a device standpoint are the BlackBerry options. Short of this, its phones are pretty lame.
As pointed out in this piece here, [...]

Today I discovered a friend of mine had a squirrel chew through the neutral line on the power pole outside their house. The end result was nearly every appliance in their home being fried with raw current — apparently the breaker box only tripped one of the breakers.
Where things get really weird is that during [...]

By now, news of Laplink’s offering has been hitting the Web all over the place. And considering the costly alternative, I suspect we will see a number of anxious individuals jumping all over this. To be honest, any solution that means that XP users can painlessly switch from XP to Windows 7 is going to [...]

Still not really the title I was hoping to settle on, but in interest of bringing this day to a close, it’ll have to do. Nevertheless, this is an article I wanted to share with you as it provides one of the most important lines of security against loss of data should your mobile phone [...]

Okay, so the for profit part of the title likely depends on how “clean” the job you do actually is. This being said, I do believe that this article has some fantastic tips on how you can save a lot of money doing otherwise simple laptop repairs yourself. And let’s face it, if that old [...]