If you’re used to organizing your email into folders in Outlook Express, Windows Mail, or Outlook, and you have a Gmail account, you’re probably wondering how you can organize your mail into folders. There doesn’t seem to be a way to create new folders. But there is. Gmail uses something they call labels. Think of labels as folders.… Read More »
Once upon a time, Ben Edelman, a really smart guy who fought – and still fights – against the scams, spyware and trickery on the Internet, invented a toolbar called “Site Advisor”. And we saw it and said “It is good.” And it was. In those days, browsers didn’t come with anti-phishing protection, and Site Advisor was a… Read More »
Tip for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 System File Checker, or SFC, is one of the best features of Windows, and also one of the least used. And that’s too bad. Many computer problems can be solved by running it, and yet very few people ever use it. To be honest, we forget about it too. It… Read More »
Thank you for making our newest ebook, “Your Computer Won’t Bite II” our fastest selling ebook ever! Our new ebook, “Your Computer Won’t Bite II” will show you: How online retailers use fear to get you to buy software you don’t need, wasting your money and causing annoying problems with your PC. Why shopping and banking online is… Read More »
Jim asks about tracking cookies I recently switched from IE8 to Firefox. When I run SUPERAntiSpyware, it finds about 200 tracking cookies each day. They all seem to be related to Firefox. I never encountered this in IE8. You have previously educated me not to be worried about cookies, but are tracking cookies different? I remove them, but… Read More »
A tip for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 We’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about organizing files in a folder. I guess we do it so matter-of-factly that we don’t really think about it. It’s so easy and so natural to us that we’re sometimes baffled by the emails we get that ask how to… Read More »