You are never too old to learn a new skill or hobby. This winter, I had one of my computer students attempt to teach me to knit. Needless to say, I was dropping stitches, pulling the yarn too tight… it was an absolute nightmare. I […]
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Another new SmartPhone app out there that is getting mixed reviews…. a look at NameTag: http://www.nametag.ws/ Picture this… You are walking your dog at a local park on a Saturday morning, minding your own business and waiting for your dog to do their business. All of
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Following fellow author Mark Williamson’s exposé of the Superfish adware pre-installed on Lenovo PCs (Lenovo Distributes Adware on New PCs), news is coming to hand of further instances of Superfish-like intrusions. The most concerning aspect of the more recent revelations is that these intrusions are
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Also known as geolocation, this perverse and absurd practice isn’t just confined to The Oscars of course, as anyone who uses Youtube will be painfully aware. I choose Oscar, as in a moment of misguided magnanimity, I acceded to my better half’s request to watch the
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In a slightly ‘believable’ turn of events, Lenovo, the world’s No.1 in PC distributions according to Wikipedia have been caught distributing adware on their new laptops, straight out of the box!. The adware, called Superfish, apparently injects third party ads on Google searches and other
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It’s something none of us like to think about really, but it’s probably the one and only thing we can be certain of. Yep, at some point in all our lives we begin to realise that the grim reaper isn’t just a big skinny bugger
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With the passing of the old year into the new, I thought it might be timely to take a look at how the market share statistics finished up at the end of 2014. As usual, the preferred source for market share trends is NetMarketShare. Desktop
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A recent Financial Times article has confirmed that Microsoft and Amazon, as well as Google, have all been paying to be included in Adblock Plus’s default whitelist. The confirmation of a paid deal between these companies and Eyeo (the maker of Adblock Plus) to circumvent
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Many people purchase a computer and just assume the Microsoft Office Suite package comes standard on it. NEWSFLASH It does not come standard. You can pay extra for the package or experience the trial version that often comes preloaded on systems and is usable for only a
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Has the number THREE taken on a greater significance in your life? Are you asking for THREE sugars in your tea? Have you been married THREE times?Are you checking your calendar for significant dates, searching for portents, signs, footprints in the sand and secret marks on
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