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Secure Email

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RychenCop, on a Civilian Police Assistance Training Team in Baghdad, Iraq writes: “I have been using Gmail as my main email service while stationed in Iraq. My question is how secure are online email services?”
Before I get into this answer, let me take the [...]

Zango And Revver Respond

In response to this, Asi Behar from Revver writes:
Revver is, and always has been, an open syndication network. Our platform - whether it be the API, widgets, RSS feeds, or direct embeds - was designed to offer creators and sharers of content a way to fully white label and monetize their video experience - a [...]

Security Booster

Every time you use your computer and log on to the Internet, you leave a trail of information revealing personal details about yourself such as your address, financial details, and surfing habits, which makes you a good target for hackers, spammers, extortionists, stalkers, and fraudsters. These people can wreak havoc with your computer, take over [...]

EditPad Lite v6.3.1

EditPad Lite is a convenient text editor and Notepad replacement. It has all the features a solid text editor needs. You can open as many files at a time as you want, with no arbitrary file size limit. Each file will have its own tab. You can convert between ANSI, ASCII, and Unicode, and work [...]

Mega64

Video games allow us to do things that we would never be able to do in real life - that’s partly why they’re so popular. What would happen if you took a group of guys who reenacted video games in real life and gave them a video camera? Well, you’d get Mega64. The results of [...]

Vista Joy

Gnomie Kyle Covino writes:
Well, since you only receive mail on how people hate Vista, I thought I should send you one on why I love it. Originally I hadn’t planned on picking up a copy right off the bat, but I needed to use it for work anyway so I did grab one. I’m glad [...]

Add Internet Explorer To The Windows Vista Desktop

When you install Windows Vista, one of the first things you will notice is that there are no icons on the desktop. In a previous article, I showed you how to add some of the common icons, such as My Computer and the Recycle Bin, back to the Windows Vista desktop by personalizing the desktop. [...]

Phishing Filter Safety

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In Boy Scouts, the first badge I earned was a fishing badge. I caught a crappie! Of course, we all know that fishing is a great pastime. But what many people don’t know is that when “fishing” is spelled PHishing, it’s a potentially very [...]

Wi-Fi Security Without VPN?

I always get nervous on open and/or public Wi-Fi networks — especially when it comes to checking sensitive information like email. Some people say that a VPN (a virtual private network) solves that problem, but I don’t seem to have anything other than a way to dial into a VPN server. Since I don’t have [...]

Great Disk Utilities

These tools, as selected by our friends at PC World, will help you clean up and improve your hard drives.

Sure Delete
Permanently wipe all traces of a file from your hard drive.

Ranish Partition Manager
Partition your hard drive and control bootup sequences.

DustBuster
Get rid of unnecessary files and directories on your hard drive.

CloneMaster
Find and remove duplicate files on [...]

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