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Jun 25 2015

Security Pack Deal – 6 Products for the Price of One

By Jim Hillier / 2 Comments

StickyPassword, makers of the excellent password manager of the same name, is offering a “Security Pack” deal including 6 heavily discounted products: StickyPassword: Excellent password manager – license is LIFETIME Avira Pro: Top notch antivirus – license is 1 year SpyShelter Premium: Highly regarded anti […]

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Jun 25 2015

Learning Computers: Computer Optimization

By Jim Canfield

Links to all articles included in this series: The Beginning: Opening introduction to the series Browsers: What are they? How to make them a safer door to Web. Search Engines: The Good, Bad and Ugly. Understanding search results. Malware and Virus: What is Malware? – What is

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Jun 24 2015

Windows – Is This The End Of An Era?

By Marc Thomas / 6 Comments

The Golden Days of Windows As the tears of nostalgia roll down my face and I reminisce over the launch of Windows XP in October 2001, I can’t help thinking that those halcyon days may have been Microsoft’s finest hour. A full choir singing America

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Jun 24 2015

How to Get CTRL + F Back in Word 2010

By Carol Bratt / 1 Comment

I get so many complaints from Word users regarding the use of CTRL + F in Word 2010. The good news is that it has always been within your power to make it work as it did in earlier versions! In Word 2010, CTRL +

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Jun 23 2015

Malwarebytes Reinforces its Fight Against PUPs

By Jim Hillier / 6 Comments

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware + Junkware Removal Tool = Bad News for PUPs With the recent acquisition of the popular Junkware Removal Tool software, Malwarebytes has added another string to its security bow. Although, I guess it’s really a case of strengthening an existing string rather than

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Jun 23 2015

Put Another Quarter in the Jukebox

By Sherri Meinke / 3 Comments

Does anyone remember the tabletop jukeboxes that were once a part of the Diner experience? I have fond memories of going with my family to the L & K restaurant or local diner and flipping thru the pages for music to pick out. My sister

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Jun 22 2015

How To Change your Router’s Default Password

By Jim Hillier / 1 Comment

How to change your router’s default password, and why you should! Last week we published an article relating to router security, you can catch up with that article here: Quickly Check that your Router Hasn’t Been Hijacked. At the end of the article I suggested

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Jun 22 2015

Will Windows 10 be Free for “Insiders” or Not?

By Jim Hillier / 17 Comments

In a recent blog post, Microsoft’s Gabe Aul made an announcement which seemed to suggest that anyone running Windows 10 Preview as part of the ‘Windows Insider’ program and who logs in to same using a Microsoft account would then receive the final version of

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Jun 19 2015

Why MajorGeeks is THE Best Download Site

By Jim Hillier / 14 Comments

Much has been written about download sites and their bad practices – forcing adware wrappers, unfettered bundling, not filtering out malicious software, etc. – seems many of these sites are more interested in generating income rather than providing a safe download environment for users. So

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Jun 19 2015

Quickly Check that your Router Hasn’t Been Hijacked

By Jim Hillier / 7 Comments

DNS, yet another of those infernal acronyms. Domain Name System is an essential component of everyone’s connection to the internet and is used to translate readily identifiable domain names, such as www.davescomputertips.com, into the numerical IP (Internet Protocol) addresses required to access websites – sort

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Jun 18 2015

Learning Computers: Phishing

By Jim Canfield

Links to all articles included in this series: The Beginning: Opening introduction to the series Browsers: What are they? How to make them a safer door to Web. Search Engines: The Good, Bad and Ugly. Understanding search results. Malware and Virus: What is Malware? – What is

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Jun 17 2015

E3 2015 – New Games Preview

By Marc Thomas / 3 Comments

Running from 16 to 18th June, E3 is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center and is the premier showcase for computer and video games. Here are a few games announced already. DOOM Needing very little introduction, Doom was first unleashed by id Software

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Jun 17 2015

Windows 10 Pricing Revealed, and it isn’t Pretty

By Jim Hillier / 25 Comments

I seriously cannot believe some of Microsoft’s recent decisions – removing basic features such as DVD playback from Windows 10, no longer insisting on an option to disable secure boot, compulsory automatic updates – and now the company has revealed its Windows 10 pricing policy

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Jun 16 2015

Smartphone ‘Bluetooth Finder’ App Plays Hide and Seek

By Sherri Meinke / 2 Comments

You’re getting warm, warmer, you’re getting hot, you are sweating … BINGO there it is! I own a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. There have been times when I have set it down for it’s own protection and later when I remembered about it, the phone

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