A while ago — quite a while ago — we recommended Secunia PSI to keep software patched and updated. Unfortunately — and we’re sorry to say — Secunia has become quite a resource hog. Yes, and CNet has a software update too — and you’ll be wise to avoid it. But keeping your software patched and updated is… Read More »
The thready fingers of heat are already rising from the concrete soul of the city. Another vapid, sullen, summer morning awakens. Dawn brings its dreary, dull, oppressive heat to another struggling newborn day. It is already too hot to move and too muggy to breathe. I look at the tired trees through a dirty, streaked window – they… Read More »
Windows Libraries are one of the most useful features of Windows 7. They’re always handy. Libraries look and work like folders but they are not. They’re something all together different – like magic places. Really. They’re great. If you’re not using them you’re missing one of the best features of Windows 7. It may not be as flashy… Read More »
George says “What about Avast Internet Security”? I have been running Avast Free on my laptop for many years now. I was offered a free trial of their Internet Security program the other day with the ability to revert back to the free program at the end of the 15 day trial. My question centers on ‘ is… Read More »
Terri’s son spends far too much time on Facebook Hi TC and EB — Thanks for all your wonderful help over the years and all the great products and software that you recommend, of which I have bought quite a few 🙂 I have a problem with my son and Facebook, he’s on it all the time and… Read More »
Last week while preparing this newsletter I was fooling around with a few new programs, one of them a PDF program installed drivers to my Windows 7 computer. Any time you install drivers for a program or whatever it seems something in Windows gets mentally unbalanced or angry. Windows got angry with me. Now for years I’ve written… Read More »