Windows
FileAsoc
Have you recently asked your file associations how they’re doing? So many of the programs that we download today try to take over our associations, and this can be very aggravating. Sometimes when you uninstall certain applications, the associations are completely lost, with nowhere to turn. I’m sure that most of us have had to [...]
Spyware Doctor v2.0
Spyware continues to be the biggest annoyance we face in the online world. Drive-by downloads of random browser hijackers, malicious keylogging applications, and numerous other frustrations induce a constant state of user paranoia. Spyware Doctor relieves the stress, actively monitoring your system with its OnGuard technology, automatically preventing infections before they happen. Live updates keep [...]
World66
I love traveling! It’s always exciting to step outside of your daily routine and visit another location for a period of time. There are so many amazing things scattered across this world, and trying to see everything would take more than our lifetime. From the natural wonders of the world, to the small music club [...]
Battery Backup And UPS Differences
Ken Colburn of Data Doctors answers Rob, who writes: Q: I have been shopping for a good way to protect my computer from power surges and have a question: what is the difference between a battery backup system and a UPS? A: Depending upon what part of the country you are in, the late summer [...]
Scrolling Start Menu Programs
If you have numerous programs installed, they may not all fit in one column on your Start Menu. By default, the programs will be displayed as horizontal columns. You can change this by editing the Advanced properties for the Start Menu, or you can have programs displayed in one long scrolling menu. Programs you don’t [...]
Is Punching The Clock A Thing Of The Past?
Time and attendance – those are the words that the man uses to keep track of us while we’re at work (or while we’re not, as the case may be). I remember punching a time clock in my earliest jobs. And then there was the kludgey “accumulator” – a crude time and attendance monitoring system [...]
99,999 Innocent Bystanders Spammed
Spammers wreak havoc on millions of people for one simple reason: It’s a money-making enterprise, and it’s easy to do. Microsoft Research has a piece just out that explains that if a million people receive a single spam e-mail broadcast, only one recipient needs to spend $11.00 on whatever they’re selling to make the effort [...]
Alpha Journal
Keeping track of information is one of those tasks that the PC should make easier. But it somehow doesn’t. As per usual, there are a huge number of different software solutions out there for doing just that. But many are overly complicated to learn or use, take up too much memory, or are filled with [...]
MailBell
Let’s face it, we can all be a little obsessive about checking our e-mail. It doesn’t matter whether you’re waiting for something specific, or just haunted by the fact that something interesting may be sitting there, waiting to be read. The fact is that many of us check our e-mail far more often than we [...]
Report: Using Google For Evil?
Yep, Chris is still on his birthday vacation (we miss him as much as you do!), so today’s guest reporter is none other than resident Gnomie Matt Hartley! Watching The Screen Savers as I often do, they had a guest on the show who was explaining just how easy it is to get sensitive information [...]
