You use folders every day on your computer. If you find yourself clicking more than once to get to your most often used folder, or you’re always making adjustments in the folder view, or you wish files would open where you want them to – […]
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BotNets – What are they? BotNet, short for Robot Network, is one of the scariest types of computer infection extant. We all know the internet is a dangerous place and many security measures must be adhered to in order to maintain some modicum of safety online.
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One of the most useless keys on the Windows keyboard in my opinion is the Caps Lock key. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s more of a hindrance than a help. Why? Because it doesn’t have any useful function other than
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What are keyloggers! Are they the nasty little critter you see to your left, or are they just a figment of your imagination? Well, a lot of people can be fooled into thinking… no big deal, I won’t have that problem. But think again, as
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One of the most under-utilized features of Outlook 2010 is called Quick Steps. Quick Steps are handy shortcuts for a one-click operation to get tasks done … well… quicker. The silly thing is that it is right in the middle of the Home tab band
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An electronic engineer and inventor in Dublin, Ireland has produced what is claimed to be the smallest PC in the world. Measuring just 2.5″ x 2″ (smaller than a cigarette packet) the ultra-mini PC is powered by an Intel Atom CPU with 1GB RAM. Storage
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As I am sure you’ll know, clicking the explorer shortcut on the Windows 8 desktop taskbar opens up the Libraries folder. Why? I cannot see any reason why I would want a shortcut to open my Libraries folder. And! Oddly enough, neither could any of
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Windows 8 comes to you with some quite useful apps pre-installed, one of which is a native PDF viewer simply called “Reader”… not a terribly imaginative title but a useful app nonetheless. Reader is pretty basic fair but it adequately meets my requirements. To be
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My old MacBook Pro was getting kind of sluggish and I was running out of disk space fairly routinely. With Apple recently dropping the price of MacBook Pros by $200, I decided to take the plunge this weekend and buy a 13” MacBook Pro with
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This is the second in a series about Geek Facts. Today’s topic is, well, the most prevalent topic of the Geek Facts. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day
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