The game that started it all In 1993 Doom pretty much took the gaming world by storm, setting the standard for first person shooters and it’s still played today, although I must confess to never having played it yet. id Software followed up with […]
Much has been written about the data collection and privacy concerns in Windows 10. Now, reports are circulating about 4 recent KB updates which purportedly escalate data collection in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, presumably to similar levels of those in Windows 10 – view
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What the what?? Just a few days ago I downloaded the app Cut the Rope – Time Travel for free from Amazon’s Free App of the Day. Now it looks like they’ve turned that concept upside down only to appear suddenly online with a strange
Sadly, major websites get hacked often enough to warrant repeated coverage on mainstream news. Wondering if you’re listed in the Ashley Madison data dump? Has your Gmail password been leaked without your knowledge? Did you notice when 145 million details were stolen from Ebay? Curious?
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Just recently I upgraded my Windows 8.1 system to Windows 10 and things did not go smoothly. This is a very new machine, only 4 weeks old, so hardware incompatibilities were pretty much ruled out. Besides, the ‘Get Windows 10’ notification assured me of full
What is downsampling? Downsampling is running a game at a higher resolution than the native resolution of your monitor, which is then rescaled or downsampled back to your native desktop resolution. For example you could change the in-game resolution settings to 2560 x 1440, which
If you’ve watched the phone wars from the sidelines over the last several years, then you probably remember a time when Blackberry was a force to be reckoned with. It permeated the business market with its security, mobile productivity, email push, text messaging and that
In a recent announcement, Mozilla revealed that it will deprecate support for its current add-ons and go the Chrome route. The four major changes in the pipeline that will affect developers and users alike are: Implementing a new extension API called WebExtensions The multi-process architecture
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Lately, I have seen a lot of discussion about Windows 10 exposing your personal information to the cloud and thereby exposing you to invasion of that information. Add that with the fear that Wi-Fi Sense will expose you to more threats than ever before and
Google’s ongoing battle with European regulators over the right to be forgotten has been well documented, Now, it seems, UK authorities are taking the concept one step further by denying the right to report on “right to be forgotten” events. Confused? Allow me to explain.
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An Excel chart can be inserted into a Word document. In addition, any edits done to the Excel Spreadsheet can automatically appear in the Chart in Word. Who knew! The beauty of this is any changes made in Excel will be in sync in the Word
For those not in the know; Ashley Madison is a site offering hook-ups for people looking to have affairs – commonly referred to as an adultery or infidelity site. Call me a prude but, personally, I find it astonishing that these types of sites even
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How much damage getting hacked causes you often dictates how much you should care. If your mobile phone that’s only used to play Plants vs. Zombies gets exploited you probably won’t care. Your main computer getting hacked with banking access and email logins may take
In a recent article I mentioned how my upgrade experience from Windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 Pro has been a bit of a nightmare, well a lot of a nightmare to be honest. The one redeeming factor in the whole mess has been the
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