In the southeastern United States, the fire ant is being displaced by Nylanderia fulva, more commonly known as the ‘crazy ant’ or ‘Rasberry crazy ant’, so named for Tom Rasberry, the US exterminator who identified it. While they are not particularly choosy, one of their […]
It’s a fact of life, much like death and taxes, if you own and operate a PC for any length of time you are almost certain to encounter malware. This is an area where it seems everyone has an opinion and advice on how to
This is the first in a series of articles related to Apple’s WWDC 2013. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and company took the stage at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco on Monday, June 10th for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The wildly
Not an imaginary conversation. Me – How are you handling all the crazy new cyber threats currently being thrown at us on the Internet? She – I’m cool! I’ve got the best Anti-virus program there is (her reference – the neighbourhood geek.) Me – Good
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Microsoft’s Windows Store got off to a shaky start when it first opened in beta mode in 2012, with virtual shelves that were… well… virtually empty. When Windows 8 and Windows RT were officially launched toward the end of last October, the store included fewer than 8,000
Well known security company Kaspersky has launched a new online service called Kaspersky Application Advisor which provides users with vital information about files and/or programs included in Kaspersky’s massive database. We already have several useful services which check for malicious intent by scanning files through
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My dear husband recently dropped his iPad mini and it did not go well. He chipped off the area around the Power button. As a result, he could no longer get cellular coverage due to a damaged antenna. He also couldn’t turn off his iPad
Whether you inherit a document from someone else and you simply need to start from scratch, or you do a text dump from the Internet, you will someday need to know how to erase certain things from your document. There isn’t a one trick pony
Portable Document Format – What is it? This may seem like an obvious question but it is possible that someone out there isn’t sure what a Portable Document Format (PDF) file is. The Adobe Acrobat Product line and the PDF file date back to the early
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Folks define names in their Excel worksheets all the time and they can sometimes end up with so many names that they have difficulty remembering them or finding them! Of course, you can can jump to a named range by clicking on F5 to open
This Windows 8 user guide is available free from Microsoft under the rather fancy name of “Windows 8 End User Training Brochure”. In reality it is a pretty basic guide that doesn’t go into great detail but is however, because of that very reason, eminently
As a result of a mishap, my dear husband had to set up a new iPad mini based on the last backup of his old iPad mini. After everything was loaded, he couldn’t find Facebook. If you did a search for it, it showed up.
I write a lot of documentation. For me junk text is necessary for a few reasons. I may not want to display real names or confidential information using prior documents when I write a How-To. Or I may not want people to concentrate on the
If you have been reading my ‘How To’ articles, you may have read how to turn off Aero Shake and Aero Peek. Today it’s the turn of Aero Snap. This tweak works in both Windows 7 and 8 and again, it’s one of those things
