Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Undeliverable e-mail spam
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Fraudsters Try to Scam Security Expert on EBay
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Five Reasons Blu-Ray Will Fail
It's been more than a year since the backers of Blu-ray triumphed in the Format Wars, sending HD-DVD to the technology scrap heap. But consumers don't seem to care. Traditional DVDs are outselling Blu-ray discs by a 6 to 1 margin, and a recent Harris Interactive survey indicated that 93 percent of Americans have no plans to buy a Blu-ray player within the next year. Even though Blu-ray sales are slowly increasing on a year-to-year basis, only 7 percent of Americans own a Blu-ray player today.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
What’s New in Printers
Looking for a new printer...or just looking? Our editors and writers have been busy testing and reviewing as many inkjet, laser, and multifunction printers as we can get our hands on. Fresh off the lab bench: We’ve just taken a look at HP’s latest multifunction printer, the Officejet 6000 Wireless. Read our review to find out how it fared in our testing.
About RocketDock
Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.
Features:
- Minimize windows to the dock
- Real-time window previews in Vista
- Running application indicators
- Simple drag-n-drop interface
- Multi-monitor support
- Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons
- Icons zoom and transition smoothly
- Auto-hide and Popup on mouse over
- Positioning and layering options
- Fully customizable
- Completely Portable
- ObjectDock Docklet support
- Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y'z Dock skins
- Runs great on slower computers
- Unicode compliant
- Supports many languages and can easily be translated
- A friendly user base :)
- And best of all... its FREE!!! Watch the video.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
How to Offload Your Cell-Phone Pictures
Monday, June 22, 2009
Thieves, Cons And Scammers May Be Watching You Online
helped them scope your house. The pictures of your home's interior you posted online, say on Flickr.com, help them find high-ticket items quickly. Read more...
That e-mail attachment is not a Twitter invite
"The observed messages appear as if they have been sent from a Twitter account; however, unlike a legitimate Twitter message, there is no invitation URL present in the body," a Symantec blog post says. "Instead, the user will see an attachment that appears as a .zip file that purportedly contains an invitation card."
The name of the attachment is "Invitation Card.zip" and Symantec identified it as W32.Ackantta.B@mm, a worm targeting Windows computers that was discovered in an e-card virus attack in February, according to Symantec. The worm gathers e-mail addresses from compromised PCs and spreads by copying itself to removable drives and shared folders.
Symantec is warning about a mass-mailing worm that comes in an attachment pretending to be a Twitter invite.
"The observed messages appear as if they have been sent from a Twitter account; however, unlike a legitimate Twitter message, there is no invitation URL present in the body," a Symantec blog post says. "Instead, the user will see an attachment that appears as a .zip file that purportedly contains an invitation card."
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Personal Computer Buyer's Guides
- How To Save On Buying a PC
- What Computer Should I Buy?
- Best Netbook PCs
- Best Laptops Under $750
- Best Desktop PCs Under $65
How to Fix Your Computer with Accessories
PROTECTING YOUR COMPUTER
Latest security patches for Windows at: http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp
The Federal Trade Commission offers tips at:
Friday, June 19, 2009
Greenshot
Greenshot is a revolutionary screenshot tool optimized for productivity.
* Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second.
* Apply text and shapes to the screenshot.
* Offers capture of window, region or full screenshot.
* Supports several image format.
Greenshot is open source software.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Freeraser Makes Sure Your Files Are Gone for Good
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Never Miss a Sale Again! Get Alerts When Price Drops
Is Your Computer a Zombie?
Your computer must be infected with malware to be turned into a zombie. The software runs surreptitiously. That's because the criminals want to use your machine as long as possible. They don't want you to know.
Given this, it is often difficult to tell if your computer is a zombie. Your computer may be sluggish. There could be a lot of causes for this, though. You would probably also notice new programs on the machine.
Access to security sites could be blocked. And your connection speed could slow to a crawl. Most people don't realize their computer is infected.
Bizarre Bugs: Nine of the Strangest Software Glitches Ever
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The 10 Dumbest Tech Products So Far
New Phishing Scams Hitting Facebook Users
The AllFacebook blog reports that people are receiving e-mails and messages in their inboxes with links such as "areps.at." Clicking it takes you to a fake Facebeook login page. If you enter your information, the site will quickly login to your account and change your password, blocking you from Facebook,. It will then forward a malicious link to all of your friends via your account.
http://www.switched.com/2009/05/22/new-phishing-scams-hitting-facebook-users/#continued
Are Tweets and Facebook updates telling burglars when to strike?
Monday, June 15, 2009
Tagged (social network)
magazine article called Tagged "The World's Most Annoying Website".
Tagged asks users for their email username and password, checks their email address books for contacts and repeatedly sends email invitations to people who are not yet on Tagged, stating that they have been "added as a friend" or that the inviter had sent them photos on Tagged. This process has drawn criticism in the technology press and from users. These emails were discussed as possible spam by Black Web 2.0. resemblance to a virus has often been mentioned, including by urban legend site Snopes.com.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
CDBurnerXP
CDBurnerXP is a FREE application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
A Look at the ‘Clickjacking’ Web Attack and Why You Should Worry
Friday, June 12, 2009
TweetDeck
TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organized and up to date.
- Tweet directly from TweetDeck and share photos or web links
- Manage conversations with @replies and direct messages
- Create Groups to easily follow friends, colleagues or other interest groups
- Follow topics in real-time with saved searches
- Update Facebook and view your friends’ status updates
- Preview short URLs from the comfort of TweetDeck
- View Twitpic thumbnails directly from TweetDeck
- Record video clips within TweetDeck using 12seconds
- And many other Twitter favourites including Stocktwits, Twitscoop and much more
NoPhoneTrees.com
gethuman - Customer Service Help,
- catalog steps to bypass automated (ivr) phone systems to speak directly to a human main database extended
- establish standards for customer care based on input from customers (not businesses)
- allow users to rate businesses for their customer service
- allow users to discuss customer service experiences
- allow users to share tips on how to contact help and receive better service
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The Two Worst Email Mistakes - Or Why Most of Email Doesn’t Get Read
The Two Worst Email Mistakes - Or Why most of Email Doesn’t Get Read
Email messages are unread for two simple reasons:
- The message is buried
- The entire message is a graphic.
Wasted Space
The first mistake has to do with the physical limitation of e-mail - which is not a printed page that the eye can scan all at once.
At most, the recipient of an email sees 10 lines of text on the first screen of an email (less if they’re reading it on a mobile device.) If you don't get your message in the first three or four lines: it won't get read.
Between fancy mastheads, lengthy letters from publishers, boilerplate about privacy policies and just plain garbage prose, it's the rare email that presents the subject in the first few lines.
How publications and advertisers waste space and time include:
- The HTML masthead takes up the entire first screen of the e-mail then expects us to read through advertising to get to the table of contents.
- The entire first screen is taken up, and sometimes as many as three screens, reminding us that we subscribed to this publication so we are not being spammed; that the mailing list will not be shared and that new subscribers are welcome. And only then, as many as 40 lines later - that's 4 screens in Outlook, etc - are we told what the issue contains.
- Lots of white space between paragraphs introducing the issue of a publication, and then making us plough through a 10-line ad, a few paragraphs about the newsletter and a privacy statement before we get to the beginning of the first article.
All-Image email
Set your email not to download images unless you manually determine that you want to see them.
Attachments
Do not send attachments without saying: I can send you the report, photos, PDF, press release, etc. if you are interested. Or state what the attachment is in the main body of the message.
Email mistake regarding recipients
Do not send to people you don't know - emails about stuff they do not care about, or want to know.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Find Out How to Do (Almost) Anything at WikiHow
Deleting Cell Phone Data Before Upgrading Phones
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
94 Great Freeware Programs For A Freeware Only PC
Monday, June 08, 2009
Preview links before you click
- Before you click the link
- Hover your mouse pointer over the link, and a Linkclue icon will appear.
- Rest your mouse on the icon, and up pops an enhanced summary of the linked page.
- A text content summary
- A small snapshot of the page
- Sizes and dates of linked files
- Useful stats and metadata
- Next actions - save, email...
- And more. Check the options!
Managing your Facebook privacy and friends
The social networking site recently hit an astonishing 200 million users. If you haven’t received a Facebook invitation, you will.
Maybe you’re skeptical of Facebook. That’s understandable. It is easy to reveal private information accidentally. And the flux of information from your contacts can be difficult to control.
Fortunately, Facebook provides a bevy of tools. Using them, you can get your profile under control in a few short minutes.
77 Must-Have Utilities: Download Them All!
By the Editors of ComputerShopper.com
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Vodpod
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Just how do websites track or monitor our activity?
What Is Bing?
Claim: E-mailed invitations from friends to join the Tagged.com web site are a form of scam or virus.
Update Drivers in Windows
You might need to perform a driver update in Windows for all kinds of reasons. Usually, a driver update is used as a solution to an issue with how Windows works with a piece of hardware. Updating a driver can also enable new or updated features for the hardware.
Drivers are updated in Windows by using a driver update wizard from within Device Manager..
The driver update wizard walks you through the entire driver update process, making updating drivers a fairly painless task.
Windows 7, Windows
- How to Update Drivers in Windows 7
- How to Update Drivers in Windows Vista
- How to Update Drivers in Windows XP
Updating a hardware device's driver is usually the first troubleshooting step to any hardware issue in Windows. In particular, a simple driver update will correct many of the popular Device Manager error.
About.com - Sat 6/6/2009
11 Free Registry Cleaner Programs
Important: Registry cleaner and registry fix programs should only be used as troubleshooting tools for actual PC issues. Registry cleaning should NOT be part of your regular PC maintenance.
The Futon Critic
- “Breaking News” has the most revealing scoops on the television scene.
- In “Shows A-Z,” you will find the list of the TV series from past to present, and even the TV movies and mini-series.
- “Listings” covers the air dates of TV series including what’s showing today.
- Take a look at the “Ratings” section and see what programs capture the viewers appeal.
- Also view “TV on DVD”“, Summer Guide,” and “MyFuton”.