We’ve featured this program in an older edition of InfoAve Premium – but for a completely different reason. Have now had the opportunity to work with over 300 of you and helping you with your computers – we’ve had many occasions when we’ve needed to see what processes are using which files. It helps us to determine what… Read More »
Most of you have used Task Manager before — usually to close a program that is frozen or to see what processes are running in the background. But there’s another use for Task Manager that can really help you diagnose your Windows miseries 🙂 . That’s right – that common everyday program that’s built into every version of… Read More »
Raymond almost falls for the Microsoft Phone Phishing Scam I guess I’m just gullible. I received a call from a man with an Indian accent claiming to be from Microsoft. He told me that my computer had come up as “infected” and gave me a code that would allow me to connect with a Microsoft technician to clean… Read More »
IBM’s Holey Optochip? Yawn. Fujitsu’s K supercomputer? Yesterday’s news. Forget about boring old conventional computing stuff, the future of computer technology lies in crabs — lots and lots of crabs. Researchers at Kobe University and the University of the West of England’s Unconventional Computing Centre have discovered that properly herded crabs can signal the AND, OR and NOT… Read More »
Ah yes. The fervor mounts as anti-tracking cookie zealots spew their anti-tracking cookie vitriol on blogs, tech sites, newspapers, radio, and television. Why they have created a virtual army of anti-tracking-cookie haters whose paranoia can be catching. If you come down with a bad case of paranoia it can cloud your vision and blind you to really important… Read More »
A startup backed by a Skype cofounder plans to offer “freemium” broadband—supported by ads and social features. When you think of basic human rights, access to wireless broadband Internet probably isn’t at the top of the list. But a new company backed by a Skype cofounder disagrees, and plans to bring free mobile broadband to the U.S. later… Read More »