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The Demise of Flash The programming code that brought the flat, two-dimensional Web to life on your computer monitor is now on life support. For well over a decade, Flash has brought us both eye-popping on-screen functionality and heart-stopping security vulnerabilities. It has been both […]
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Have you ever received an eMail from someone you do not want one from? I know I do, and many of my clients do, too. It can be very frustrating receiving messages from unwanted senders. The best way to deal with this is to block
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Whatismybrowser.com is essentially a tech support aid which provides basic yet useful information about a user’s browser. Those of you who are the go-to-person for computer issues among your group of family and friends will know exactly where I’m coming from – if you’re trying
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If you spend enough time online, sooner or later you’ll wish you had a disposable eMail account, or, a way to track whether or not someone has “shared” your eMail address. Maybe you want to subscribe to a mailing list for a weekly newsletter about
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Security Recently, it was reported that a prominent security expert acquired a database with 272.3 million eMail accounts, with passwords, from a hacker in a Russian underground forum. All it cost him was a nice review of the hacker’s skills. The stolen IDs/passwords contained accounts
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Firefox On my computer, the one thing I use the most is my browser. It is hands down the most important application on my system. Over the years I have tried several other browsers. Ultimately, I always come back to Mozilla’s Firefox. In my view,
Netflix, the world’s leading internet television network, just released their new social media icon on June 20, 2016. Don’t be alarmed, the old Netflix Logo is not going anywhere. They are just adding to their branding toolbox. In the future, though, expect to see this
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The latest desktop browser market share figures from NetMarketShare do not paint a pretty picture for the once popular Firefox: As you can see from the above screenshot, Firefox has been steadily losing ground until its desktop browser market share has finally dropped to a
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The Problem Admit it, you are guilty, just like me, of checking your Social Media Accounts to see how many Likes or re-Tweets you have received. On Pinterest, did anyone comment on your Pins, or follow your Boards? I actually disconnected some of my Social
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How Fast is Your Internet Connection? We all want the speediest connection as is possible to the Internet. We are also subject to the contract we set up with our Internet Service Provider (ISP). Generally speaking, if you are getting about 85%, or better, of
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2-Step Verification Recently, it was reported that a prominent security expert acquired a database with 272.3 million eMail accounts, with passwords, from a hacker on a Russian underground forum. All it cost him was a nice review of the hacker’s skills. The stolen IDs/passwords contained
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The Problem Recently, I updated my Mozilla Thunderbird eMail application to the most up-to-date version. We have all done this, or at least, the eMail application has automatically done it for you. The one thing I noticed after the update is that when composing an
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Long before the Internet was a thing, we used talk to each other face to face and when we met total strangers we’d introduce ourselves politely without feeling to need to say, “Wtf are you talking about you utter moron?” So, now that I’ve caught
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A rather momentous event passed virtually unnoticed last month when, after years of domination, Internet Explorer was finally deposed as number 1 browser. No other browser has gotten anywhere near Internet Explorer in terms of market share until relatively recently but Google Chrome has now
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