I have read a number of articles about Windows 7 being unsupported come January 2020. Some seem to think that it will be the end of their dependable Windows 7 PC. Not true. There are plenty of XP and Vista and Windows 8 machines out […]
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The season of shopping is here and I have all the best tech gadgets that everyone will want this Christmas. I haven’t done an article in a while about the tech that everyone should own, so I decided it was time to do one for
In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him
Field codes are useful placeholders for data that may change in your document. You can also use them to automate certain aspects of your document. Field codes are inserted for you when you use Word features like page numbers or table of contents, but you
GoPro Copycat Or The Real Thing? Last year while on holiday in the UK I bought a couple of copycat action cameras (pictured above) in a local supermarket for £30 each, knowing that I’d probably bought a couple of pups. Indeed, when I mounted
Microsoft today released updates to plug security holes in its software, including patches to fix at least 74 weaknesses in various flavors of Windows and programs that run on top of it. The November updates include patches for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer that
When I clicked on a PDF link on a page, it downloaded, but now it opens in Opera first. This change came after an update. I want it to download. Here’s how to change it back. In the address or URL bar type: opera://settings/content/pdfDocuments and
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Last week I was taking pictures with my new phone (yes, I’m still bragging about my new phone 😉 ) when it gave me a notice that said, “Photos are backed up.” Since I am a Google user, I never really pay attention to the
Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits. Health industry experts say the
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(Sorry, no screenshots with this one.) The Problem I recently had to reset a couple of Windows 10 computers. The first one, I ran through its paces and when I got to the screen to create an account, I noticed the option to create a
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A woman brought me her iPad Mini. Her Facebook App wasn’t working. The icon looked grayed out and clicking on it produced a flash of black and then nothing. I went to the App Store. The only option available for Facebook was to upgrade. So
