We’ve all heard the stories about people buying computers off of eBay or Craigslist and then being able to recover personal information from the disks on those computers. Before I delve into why this is possible, let me point out that the vast majority of computers out there are running on Windows. According to NetApplications, …
Have you ever needed to provide your phone number for something but didn't really want to? An example of this is placing a classified add. I've become a recent Craigslist convert and hate putting my number in adds because it can easily be abused by those trolling for telephone numbers to sell to marketing firms, …
I’m not your typical conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination, but I ran across this video which really makes you think. For those of you that blog, post photos on sites such as Flickr, or use social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook; be careful, be very careful. Read the terms and …
If you’ve ever played with a webcam then you know they’re pretty cool little toys. Most people think of them as a device that they can use with their favorite IM tool to have a video conference but times have changed and these little guys can do much more than they used to. Years ago …
Keeping in touch in today’s world has never been easier. Most of us have a home phone, work phone, cell phone, work email, and personal email. If you’re hip, you also use your cell phone to text message with friends and family, which is very convenient when your in meetings or in a noisy place …
By now you’ve heard and seen the hub-bub around Windows Vista. If you walk into your favorite computer store you see it advertised everywhere and its all that’s running on the new computers. A lot of folks have been wondering if they need to spend the money on a new version of Windows and, if …
Last time I walked you through a solution for keeping your contacts in sync across multiple PCs, this time, I’ll share my solution for keeping my sentbox in sync across those same PCs. In this article, I’m assuming you’re using a local mail client, such as Outlook, to manage your mail and not a web …
My family has had the pesky “keep our contact list in sync” issue for ages. If we used one PC, I don’t think it would be such a big deal but we have a family PC, my wife’s laptop, my Windows laptop, my Linux laptop, my work PC and the list goes on. Until now …
How many times have you looked at your home phone bill and thought you were being robbed? I’ve had that thought every time I’ve looked at my bill for the past three years. My local service plus a few add-ons was costing well over $40 a month and long distance was costing another $50 to …
If you create word processing documents, spreadsheets or presentations, chances are you do so using the most popular office productivity suite on the planet — Microsoft Office. Whether or not Microsoft is able to maintain that dominance is a topic for another time, but if you use these tools in the process of completing your …
