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Sep 17 2015

Ghostery Adds New Sneaky Promotional Messaging System

By Jim Hillier / 4 Comments

Ghostery is a popular privacy/anti-tracking add-on supporting major web browsers, including both Firefox and Chrome. However, Ghostery has not been without its critics and has elicited a fair amount of controversy along the way. A recent update to Ghostery for Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox […]

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Sep 16 2015

Creating a God Mode Folder on Your Desktop

By Jim Canfield / 3 Comments

If you are not familiar with “God Mode” it is a very nice set of commands that allow you quickly and easily access just about anything you can imagine on your computer.  There are 234 different commands. All of the commands are actually available within

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Sep 15 2015

Here comes Office 2016

By Carol Bratt / 2 Comments

Yes, that’s right – the 2016 iteration of Office is right around the corner and although it is not terribly different from Office 2013, there are some major differences. Yes, I am sorry to say we still have the Ribbon to contend with but in

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Sep 15 2015

Did Steve Jobs Really Change The World?

By Marc Thomas / 5 Comments

How much more adulation can we take? With yet another film about Steve Jobs due for release later in the year, I can’t help feeling that our fascination for the man knows no bounds. This latest dramatisation, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny

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Sep 15 2015

DVDFab Giveaway: DVDFab Media Player Pro (lifetime)

By Jim Hillier / 7 Comments

Free DVD/Blu-ray Player for Windows 10! Here’s a giveaway that will be of special interest to Windows 10 users. Most would be aware by now that Windows 10 does not come with a media player which supports DVD and Blu-ray disc playback. Sure, those users

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Sep 14 2015

My Top 10 Favorite Sci-Fi TV Shows

By Karen Homan / 6 Comments

Wikipedia calls Science Fiction: “a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life.” Today, I am thrilled at the full swing technology’s tentacles have swung and

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Sep 14 2015

Apple Watch – watchOS 2 Release Date and New Watch Options

By Judy Novotny

Apple held their Special Event on Wednesday, September 9th at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Apple CEO Tim Cook, promising “monster announcements across several product lines”, called on Apple’s senior vice president of Operations, Jeff Williams, to announce changes in the Apple Watch world.

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Sep 11 2015

Windows 10 Being Downloaded to PCs Whether You Want it or Not

By Jim Hillier / 26 Comments

It seems Microsoft is so keen to achieve its “billions of devices running Windows 10” prediction that the company has taken to downloading Windows 10 even to systems where the user has not reserved a copy and has no intention of upgrading. <source> It should

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Sep 11 2015

DCT Giveaway: Auslogics BoostSpeed *Lifetime* Licenses

By Jim Hillier / 14 Comments

[message type=”info”]The lucky winners have now been drawn, and the winning names are: Hania Balewicz Wayne Kirk Dean Price Lindsay Fotheringham Douglas Andersen: Unclaimed – redrawn to Miron Gazda Brian Merskey: Unclaimed – Redrawn to Peter Hayes Brian Lousley Jim Kirk: Unclaimed 0 redrawn to

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Sep 10 2015

The Right Way to Delete the Windows.old Folder in Windows 10

By Jim Hillier / 4 Comments

If you’ve upgraded your PC to Windows 10, you may have noticed a folder in the root of C drive (your system drive) called “Windows.old”: This folder contains files and data relating to your old installation, the operating system you upgraded from, and is what

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Sep 10 2015

HideAway: New VPN from the Makers of MailWasher

By Jim Hillier / 9 Comments

VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) have been rapidly gaining popularity among users, and for very good reasons. A VPN service offers far greater levels of privacy and anonymity as well as helping overcome geolocation blocking. Firetrust, creator of the outstanding MailWasher program, has now joined the

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Sep 9 2015

Does Anonymity Embolden the Trolls?

By Jim Canfield / 3 Comments

Etiquette on the Internet (Netiquette) If you are reading this, you are one of many millions that read blogs and forums online and there is a good chance that like others, you respond to what you read. In this group I am including, Twitter, Facebook

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Sep 9 2015

How to Enlarge or Disable the Excel Formula Bar

By Carol Bratt / 2 Comments

As you know, when you select a cell in your worksheet in Excel, you can see the contents of that cell in your Formula Bar. If, however, the content is longer that what can be displayed in a single line on your Formula Bar, the

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Sep 8 2015

Find Out if Your Favorite Programs/Games Will Run on Windows 10

By Jim Hillier / 9 Comments

Upgrading to Windows 10 can be a daunting prospect for many users, especially without knowing whether or not some of their favorite programs and/or games will still work properly with the new operating system. Introducing Microsoft Compatibility Center which many of you may not be

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