The phone scam, where someone who professes to be from a major tech company calls and tells you that you have a virus on your computer, is apparently making the rounds again (or still). There are two flavors to this scam. The phone call seems […]
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This is the eighth in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is the ‘Geekiest Person’. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in history.
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
There has been some confusion about what happened recently regarding modifying smartphones. First, let’s distinguish between some terms that are often at the “root” of the confusion: Jailbreak: essentially this is the act of obtaining superuser (root) access on your device so you can modify
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Microsoft has removed the option to adjust your window border width in Windows 8, which was previously located through the Advanced Appearance Settings in Windows 7. You can still adjust the border widths but now it has to be done via a registry tweak. Before
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
Windows 8 automatically sets the number of rows of tiles on your Start Screen to fit your display and monitor size. If you find the screen just a little too cluttered or just plain and simply want to add or reduce the number of rows
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The Windows 8 Lock Screen is a feature that I found to be a bit of a novelty the first couple of times I started using Windows 8 but soon realised, for me at least, it was a waste of time when I am booting
Apple did their weekly release of iOS 6.1 (ouch) a few days ago. According to Apple, iOS 6.1.2 “fixes an Exchange calendar bug that could result in increased network activity and reduced battery life.” This is one of two issues that have been identified
There are many apps that will put the Start Button back on the Windows 8 desktop screen, some free and some paid for. StartisBack is a paid for app but, with a price tag of $3 dollars for two computers or $5 dollars for five
According to the latest test results published by independent testing lab AV-Test, the two Android security apps which offer the best possible protection are ‘TrustGo’ and ‘Lookout’ respectively. The good news is that all but one of the 22 apps tested passed AV-Test certification… that
CPU Priority – What is it? Before the days of multi-core processors multitasking was a myth. Computers were linear in design. That is, they did one thing at a time. The illusion of multitasking came from the fact they did it so darn fast. Like
For a limited time, Softease Tech Company is offering CollageFactory Express for free. CollageFactory Express is an app for the Mac that is a photo collage maker and greeting card creator combined in one application. I downloaded it to try it out and I have
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This is the seventh in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is the ‘Geekiest Decade’. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in history.
