Kangaroos are cute. Kangaroos are neat animals that live in a place called Australia. Jim does, too. James Hillier, as many of you know, lives in Australia. He is our beloved DCT editor and probably knows something about kangaroos. I haven’t asked him of late […]
Kangaroo Street Fight in Australia – Jim Was Not Filming Read More »
The JP Morgan Chase Bank breach is being called the worst known compromise in history, now said to be affecting approximately 76 million households and 7 million small businesses — and the situation appears to be worsening with each new piece of information. According to
First of all, I want to make it abundantly clear that we are discussing Linux for the DESKTOP here, not for supercomputers, not for servers, not for smartphones, and not for gaming consoles… just for the Desktop. It’s been more than 20 years since Linus
When I install a new Windows operating system on a computer there are several steps I take in a particular order. One of the things I do, after paying attention to all the necessary drivers and such, is install all those utilities and applications that
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The folks at drone company DJI recently trekked to Iceland to capture the massive Bardarbunga Volcano erupting, and the result is nothing short of amazing. The team used Phantom 2 quadcopter drones with GoPro cameras attached, and DJI’s Lightbridge wireless high-definition remote video system to
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In this fourth installment of the series I would like to talk about the WordPress Dashboard and cPanel. To make sure we’re on the same page here, let me point out a definition of terms. “Dashboard” and “Back End” refer to the same thing. They
WordPress – How To Have Your Own Web Site – Dashboard & cPanel Read More »
Now I know snooping by authorities has a lot of people up in arms, and with good reason, it is certainly nearing saturation point BUT does this new SSD maybe take the concept of security a little too far? The Autothysis128t is a self-encrypting secure
A couple of months ago we published an article highlighting how the once popular Firefox browser is slowly but inexorably losing favor with users, you can catch up with that article here: Firefox Slowly Slipping into Oblivion? So, here we are in October, another quarter
Solid State Drives (SSD) are the new kids on the block in the computer hardware neighborhood. As far as upgrades go, SSD’s and RAM are the best two to address if you want your computer to run faster– much faster. SSD’s have dropped in price
What’s in a number, right? Apparently, to Microsoft anyway, the numbers game is one of critical importance. While most rumors regarding new features in the next iteration of Windows have been spot on, the name guessing game has turned out to be way off the
Why Microsoft Skipped Windows 9 and Went Straight to 10 Read More »
For the first time ever, iOS will support third-party keyboards. There are several conventional and emoji keyboards out there but my favorite third-party keyboard is ‘GIF Keyboard’ by Riffsy. Here is how to install ‘GIF Keyboard’ or any other third-party keyboard on your iOS
Respected test lab AV-Test has just released its latest set of results for popular antivirus solutions. Testing involves 23 products in a Windows 7 environment. *If your antivirus is not included, it means the vendor/developer did not submit its product for testing. So let’s take
AV-Test Latest Results – How does your Antivirus Rate Read More »
If like me, you use defined styles in your documents, you may be surprised to learn that there is a very robust search in Word that will allow you to find defined styles within your document. Follow the steps below to learn how: On the
On-demand malware scanners/removers have become an integral part of our overall security strategy these days with most users utilizing at least one of these programs to help maintain a clean machine. Antivirus software is never 100% foolproof and these types of second opinion scanners can
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