Secure Your Data With Backups and Encryption

March 20, 2011

Anyone who regularly uses computers has experienced a disaster of some sort. Either your computer crashes just before you save your document to disk, or in the worst case a computer failure renders your disk unreadable. While you might think that hard disks don’t fail very often, it happens much more often than you think.

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Staying Connected on the Road

March 20, 2011

Fortunately, mobile connectivity has improved dramatically in the last several years. Whether you are using Wi-Fi or Ethernet, you have many options to choose from.

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Three Quick Steps to Remove and Avoid Spyware

March 20, 2011

Spyware is a modern scourge that’s easily among the top 5 computer security concerns. Some forms that actually spy on you live up to the name “spyware”, while others can infect almost like viruses; hijacking your browser and causing havoc on your computer.

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7 Simple Steps to Keeping Your Account From Being Hacked

March 20, 2011

By far the most common reason accounts get hacked is that they had easy to remember and simple – sometimes even trivial – passwords. In other words, the accounts have easy to hack passwords. Passwords like a pet’s name, a friend’s name spelled backwards, a favorite movie catch phrase, a significant other’s name (or “iheart” [...]

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Giving Away Your Computer? Don’t Give Away Your Identity

March 20, 2011

Now that you’ve gotten yourself a new computer you’re considering giving away your old one. Perhaps you have a relative, or a favorite charity, or even just a recycling/donation station that will take your old computer. There’s one thing you must do before giving it away.

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Common Error Messages in Email Bounces and What to Do About Them

March 20, 2011

Email bounce messages vary in format and wording; some are geeky and difficult to understand, while others seem like a short story telling you that you probably mistyped an email address. Regardless, it’s important to read through the bounce message, looking for key phrases and error messages that describe the problem if you’re to have [...]

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Embrace Change For a Better Computing Experience

March 20, 2011

If you’re one of those people who gets frustrated when something, anything, changes about the way you use your computer I have two words of advice for you: Embrace change.

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Resolve to Do the One Thing That Can Save You From Almost Any Computer Disaster

March 20, 2011

If I told you that there was one fairly simple thing you could do, that once set up you’d rarely even have to think about it and that it could save you from almost any computer related disaster, would you be interested? Such a thing does exist: it’s called backing up.

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Many Surprising Options to Giving Computer Related Gifts in a Tight Economy

March 20, 2011

This year’s holiday shopping season looks to be a tough one as people everywhere tighten their belts and look for alternatives to the more expensive gifts that they might have given in the past. Computers, and perhaps more timely, computer accessories are more popular than ever, even for the budget minded.

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The Myth and the Truth of the IP Address Tracing

March 20, 2011

Many people are under the misconception that it’s easy to trace the physical location of the computer to which an internet IP address has been assigned and thereby identify the computer’s user. It’s certainly not easy and depending on who you are it may not even be possible.

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